Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [adv] so [adv] " in BNC.

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1 This must be the watchword of the Western democracies who have so painfully and yet so necessarily dismantled Saddam Hussein 's war machine , at such a cost in lives and scarce resources .
2 Just as well so late I 've been waiting for to come .
3 Colleagues , just to try and let you know what , er I 've got in my mind concerning the business that 's fell off the agenda yesterday and today so far .
4 He knows there are times when we feel so deeply and yet so confusedly that we can not frame petitions , but simply come in silent pleading to the Lord .
5 Not easy for us , was what she 'd been warning me , being so near and yet so far , so tantalizingly inaccessible to each other .
6 So an extra place was laid , and Jennifer allowed to sit between Jill and Nathan , with Matthew pulling faces to amuse her from across the table and Tristram in a flame of embarrassment at having her so near and yet so far .
7 So near and yet so far .
8 By now Dr Neil was in an agony of desire , the loved one in his arms , so near and yet so far — But not so far as he thought , for McAllister suddenly wanted more from him than he was giving .
9 Brian Roper 's unsuccessful spot kick perpetuated the agony for the Donegal boys who had once again come so near and yet so far , losing their third final in a row .
10 SO NEAR AND YET SO FAR !
11 Although the image of the Trinity is distorted , its powers are not destroyed and this is the activity of God in the soul — the ability to understand what could be , and to desire it : But it is a question of " so near and yet so far " as Hilton adds that man is not near Christ or in him until he has actually found him .
12 So near and yet so far .
13 But the timber remained jammed and the tiles continued to languish , tantalisingly so near and yet so far away .
14 It was n't a case of missing sitters and throwing away chances more of being so near and yet so far .
15 Life on the Swindon bench has been full of heartbreak this season … so near and yet so far … it 's not so long ago that Town were winning week in week out … tomorrow they 've got Newcastle at home and back in the first division days they were no problem … 2-1 Swindon beat them last March
16 Life on the Swindon bench has been full of heartbreak this season … so near and yet so far … it 's not so long ago that Town were winning week in week out … tomorrow they 've got Newcastle at home and back in the first division days they were no problem … 2-1 Swindon beat them last March
17 So near and yet so far … that sums Saturday up for all three of our teams …
18 IT was a case of so near and yet so far for Linfield at Windsor Park last night .
19 It was not until the last hymn that Ianthe happened to turn her head slightly and not so much see him as become conscious that he was sitting behind her and presumably had been throughout the service .
20 12.01 am , Richmond and Barnes : For the Liberal Democrats the story in Richmond and Barnes has so far been ‘ so near but yet so far ’ .
21 After a long searching , entangled in other happenings , detained by pointless encounters far from the village , I wake , and that place whose spirit so often but always so briefly has been within my reach , is once more lost forever .
22 a carpet now as well so now what do I do , press enter ?
23 The transcendental practices of the Australia Aborigines seem to be of the same order as those of the Tibetan practices , even if not so highly developed .
24 Maybe to lift guilt from bowed shoulders ; to put light and hope where there was deep-seated despair ; or to so simply and yet so vitally make them know that like any other human being , they are entitled to ‘ choice ’ — and actually have it .
25 And er he went round and I do n't know I never heard him playing the fiddle , but they said he was very good at fiddling , but he was a grand one for old stories , , and er he was just doing farms here and there so Then eventually he turned so old he 'd only one dog and then er he died down at the D At a place called the Doonie And this man D Duncan , he had just an er one of the er I think one of the tramps from Blair Gowrie was working to him and he came up and told my father and my father went down to see about him , you see him being in the parish council .
26 I put nine , sorry , but then you put the joint money there as well so obviously that is included in that is n't it ?
27 ‘ Yes , ’ she said , picking her way delicately for his sake , ‘ the cloth still finds its way in , though not so freely and not so profitably .
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