Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The argument begs the massive question of why productivity has been absolutely so low for so long . |
| 2 | But this was only innovative in so far as classical ballet was concerned as there are many 5/4 Slav folk dances . |
| 3 | ‘ She had suffered so much for so long . |
| 4 | And another Quote of the Week ( and how long we have had to wait for the national press to notice what has been so obvious for so long ) : ‘ With Waterstones backed by W H Smith , and Pentos ’ gearing rising , there can be little doubt who has the deeper pockets to fight a protracted battle . |
| 5 | While George Bush promised no new taxes , Clinton said that he would rebuild the economy by penalising high earners who have had it so good for so long . |
| 6 | ‘ Keys : never was so much intellect and emotion expended by so many on so little ’ |
| 7 | Past cases are only helpful in so far as they act as a guide and some of the main points arising from them are discussed below . |
| 8 | Objectification as an approach is only useful in so far as it is an aid to understanding a given process in the world . |
| 9 | How did the world remain so blind for so long ? |
| 10 | At one point , early on , this kid was counting out money and saying something like , you have n't got a choice there and if you do n't like it you can shop around , when we said , in a voice I 'd never heard before , a voice that no longer pretended to be nice , a voice that expressed all the effort of pretending to be so nice for so long . |
| 11 | Partly because the machinery of repression has been so all-embracing for so long , stifling any messages of opposition before they reached a platform , and partly because Romania has for so long been cut off from the mainstream of European thinking and political change , constructive ideas have been hard to come by . |
| 12 | Wealth is only desirable in so far as it enables them to indulge in litigation , and the height of their ambition is to succeed in a case , especially if thereby their enemy is punished . ’ |
| 13 | Product market signals can , however , be amplified by linking management remuneration to company performance , and thus while the market may be largely ineffective in so far as it offers threats , it can be made to function better by providing incentives . |
| 14 | Parliamentary sovereignty is still intact in so far as Parliament can still repeal the act committing us to entry . |
| 15 | She had been almost unnaturally brave for so long , and now it was as though she had been given licence to cry over everything . |
| 16 | The notes refer to other dancers representing handmaidens , a bird and winds : rather complex for so short a work . |
| 17 | Of all the uniformed organizations , the Boys ' Life Brigade founded in Nottingham by the Revd John Brown Paton , was the most distinctive in so far as it appeared to be non-military , committed as it was to the principles of life-saving , even though it had a BB-style uniform and a military command structure . |
| 18 | Therefore , if the origin of the phenomenon is as recent as the late eighteenth century , it is difficult to explain how it could have become so geographically widespread in so short a time : it was already highly salient and overtly stigmatized by the latter half of the nineteenth century ( for some citations see Phillipps , 1984 , 136–9 ) . |
| 19 | The problem is relatively straightforward in so far as trees are concerned . |
| 20 | In other words , a child with an MLU which falls below the bottom of this range is relatively unusual in so far as her MLU is lower than about 85 per cent of ordinary children . |
| 21 | I know he will be , he 's quite good at so far , I think this time of day is alright , but |
| 22 | Obviously now he 's got his life to put back together which will be very hard after so long . |
| 23 | But , as Schopf asks , if such diverse communities were present at this early date , why did their members remain essentially unchanged for so long ? |
| 24 | Impressionism has really made things very difficult in so far as people think that impressionism is a kind of normal state for art to be in and anything else is a kind of deviation from good sense . |