Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] [noun] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After that Creggan often talked to her , sometimes in a barest whisper that only she could hear , and other times more powerfully so that others could share her dream and inner peacefulness . |
| 2 | There was a big red bell on the outside wall of the office , presumably so that humans could hear the telephone ring when the quarry was noisy . |
| 3 | As the Servant of Yahweh , Jesus treads the path of suffering and obedience right the way to Calvary : so much so that Peter could describe his suffering and death in terms culled from the famous prophecy of the Suffering Servant in Isaiah : |
| 4 | It is the Spirit of Christ that unites us with Christ : so much so that Paul can say ‘ If any man does not have the Spirit of Christ , he does not belong to Christ ’ ( Rom. 8:9 ) . |
| 5 | The management can be a rejecting object and may well be confusing and inconsistent , so much so that workers can not make sense of them and their demands . |
| 6 | Machines can keep the disparate parts of such a system co-ordinated much better than men can . |
| 7 | Better perhaps that Benedict should not return — though God send nothing had happened to him , for she could bear anything but that ! — for that his lost inheritance , through her fault , must prevent his ever regarding her with anything but hatred . |
| 8 | Instead , if the Advocate General prevails , men may find themselves getting less so that women can get more . |
| 9 | They invited me down to Cincinnati , Ohio , to observe networked computing — or personal computers which are linked together so that information can be transferred from one to another . |
| 10 | Mr Patten said that he had not turned against the idea of any and all new towns : ‘ So long as the location is right and so long as people can have real confidence that a decision in favour of a new settlement will relieve development pressures elsewhere , then new villages and new settlements could have a part to play in increasing the acceptability of new housing decisions . ’ |
| 11 | So long as people can walk out of a room and say they have decided to leave on their terms , they retain their dignity . |
| 12 | So long as people can milk the benefits of contracting out , but still return when the gains run out , the Government is in a heads they win , tails we lose situation . |
| 13 | In three hours we managed to get the contractors to build an earth ramp , roll it flat , cover it with gravel and put a handrail alongside so that people could walk down from the road to a flat area beside the ceremony site . |
| 14 | He ate so swiftly that Libby could n't take her eyes off him ; she remembered all they were told about behaving properly and eating slowly . |
| 15 | Molly Pearce , the helpful spinster with her eye on Maurice ; she fitted so exactly that Wycliffe could scarcely believe his luck . |
| 16 | ‘ Everything collapsed so quickly but things can change for the better in just as short a space a time . |
| 17 | He motioned an unwilling Adjutant and Sergeant out ahead of him and stood by the open door , frowning so deeply that Clarissa would have followed if Charity had n't risked leaving her defences and staked all on a final devastating attack . |
| 18 | Similarly , if the gravitational mass of the proton were significantly different , one would not have had stars in which these nucleides could have been built up , and if the initial expansion of the universe had been slightly smaller or slightly greater , the universe would either have collapsed before such stars could have evolved or would have expanded so rapidly that stars would never have been formed by gravitational condensation . |
| 19 | ‘ Hallo ? ’ he repeated , rather louder than necessary and so carefully that Hugh could hear the vowels tinkling into place . |
| 20 | The order was not one for the recovery or preservation of trust property but called for information and for copies of the defendants ' documents which , so far as compliance might incriminate them , the defendants were entitled to disregard . |
| 21 | The publication of a statement of compliance with the code , reviewed by the auditors so far as compliance can be objectively verified , is to be made a listing requirement by the Stock Exchange . |
| 22 | Septimus Coffin could call on forty years of experience , and in so far as Latin could be made entertaining , he made it so . |
| 23 | She was next in line to Lily , five years older than the girl who had come to Riverstown and had the whole world in her pocket , so far as Bernadette could see . |
| 24 | It looked like some sort of play he was writing , so far as Bob could see . |
| 25 | But the baby , so far as Wendy could see , was in good order , firm of limb , bright of eye , smooth of skin and , once released from its wrapping , extremely lively . |
| 26 | Well laid out , so far as Newman could see while she made the tea . |
| 27 | In so far as literature would inevitably play a substantial part in any such course , the students reading it would learn the appropriate cultural codes rather than being expected to know them already . |
| 28 | Parliamentary sovereignty is still intact in so far as Parliament can still repeal the act committing us to entry . |
| 29 | ‘ The Mamur Zapt ? ’ said Suleiman , surprised but , so far as Owen could tell , not disconcerted . |
| 30 | They confer a right to the ‘ equity ’ in the company and , in so far as members can be said to own the company , the ordinary shareholders are its proprietors , It is they who bear the lion 's share of the risk and they who in good years take the lion 's share of the profits ( after the directors and managers have been remunerated ) . |