Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] so [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Of the 64,000 people in the Hong Kong camps , only 5,000 had so far been accepted as genuine refugees .
2 Even so , churchmen must have disagreed with Cnut 's behaviour , although perhaps many did so diplomatically , that is to say , silently .
3 But filmmakers were only able to rise so impressively to the challenge because of what had happened in the preceding decade .
4 Webbe 's appearances for Bridgend have been limited this season and he has only five tries so far .
5 So what happened to their new years resolutions … only one win so far for any of our Central South footballing sides in 1993 .
6 If a Service fails to argue a project into the costings at an early stage , it will find it much harder to do so subsequently .
7 His letter to Alston of February 1755 runs to three folio pages ( he hopes the ‘ long scribble ’ will not prove tiring ) and is the most authoritative considered so far .
8 Though it looks painfully obvious described so baldly , this scheme is wonderfully successful in dramatising the way in which life gradually closes in on Peter , driving him inexorably to madness and suicide .
9 However , contributors to the Review were largely unwilling to go so far as to attempt to specify the nature of artistic quality in general , despite the fact that their own capacity to decide which texts were of sufficient interest in themselves to justify study depended upon recognizing such quality .
10 He has started just two matches so far , having been pushed down the pecking order by the arrival of £2 million David Rocastle from Arsenal .
11 They 've played just two matches so far .
12 Chimney sweeps are few , and are not always willing to come so far out for a couple of chimneys .
13 Of those who did marry , comparatively few did so as young as 20 .
14 Mr Fox seemed pleasantly surprised to have so pleasantly surprised me .
15 He was even prepared to go so far as to admit that monotony was the most comfortable way .
16 It was not , he answered , through want of trying : clubs were either unwilling to sell so early in the season , or were asking too high a fee .
17 I am very reluctant to go so far when we — or rather you — could be so near a better resolution .
18 I thought you were too scared to move so far from the house , especially alone with Celia . ’
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