Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yin and yang ; animus and anima ; the pairing turns up so often , not surprisingly it is sometimes taken for a universal principle of human thought and categorisation . |
| 2 | But though Athens ' diplomatic interest in the west goes back so early , it seems that Syracuse 's aims of conquest long preceded and are independent of any serious commitment of men or money by Athens . |
| 3 | But the major problem with the curriculum has not so much been lack of vision or aims , as a failure to translate aims in a clear and logical way into a curriculum to achieve them . |
| 4 | The ten-year programme represents not so much a strategy for growth ; it is more a guess at the government 's ability to rein in the booming provinces of the southern coast and the Yangtze delta . |
| 5 | Why is it that a cup of tea goes down so well ? |
| 6 | Heavy industry produced not so much the industrial region as such as the company town , in which the fate of men and women depended on the fortunes and goodwill of a single master , behind whom stood the force of law and state power , which regarded his authority as necessary and beneficial . |
| 7 | Labour has not so much won the battle of ideas as deserted the field . |
| 8 | that this conference congratulates our Bolshevik comrades of Russia on their splendid efforts to bring about a general peace , and their unflinching opposition to the brigands of international capital , though we deplore the fact that their efforts to stir the workers of all the belligerents to revolutionary action has not so far met with success , yet we promise to do all in our power to awaken the proletariat of this country to class consciousness so that a speedy end may overtake the tyranny of capital . |
| 9 | Investment occurs in so wide a variety of assets and sectors that it must be disaggregated substantially if any close statistical fit is to be found . |
| 10 | The Randalstown club came ever so close to taking the title for the first time , and had they done so they arguably would have been the first second division club to win Ireland 's blue riband team championship . |
| 11 | This time her mouth fell open so fast that she nearly lost her top dentures . |
| 12 | However , if the rattle slips down so far that it is no longer visible , the infant will at once lose interest and behave as if the rattle had also slipped out of existence . |
| 13 | The Leeds victory was partly based on David Rocastle 's holding role in midfield that allowed Gary Speed to get forward so effectively . |
| 14 | The quality press and the Daily Mail do not so readily create nicknames , although they are willing to use the existing currency — ‘ Yesterday , detectives were hunting a man locals call ‘ the stranger from Devil 's Wood ’ ' ( Daily Mail ) . |
| 15 | The return of rock means not so much a crashdown as a return towards rock , a departure from planet pop to a self-sufficiency that matches pop . |
| 16 | Water resistance : little resistance to persistent rain but the fabric dries out so quickly after shows that it 's often not worth the bother of getting out your overtrousers . |
| 17 | The research carried out so far has established some useful ideas and models which could be more intensively investigated and has established guidelines for future clinical trials . |
| 18 | But the relief of the husband from the obligation of maintenance continues only so long as she voluntarily remains absent . |
| 19 | It is unfortunate that the talk comes quite so soon after Christmas , but I hope all members living locally will make every effort to come and I know that they will be glad they did . |
| 20 | Waiting in a traffic jam the engine turns over so silently Dominique has to rev to make sure the car has n't stalled . |
| 21 | The second contrasting sceptic offers not so much an argument or a question but rather an attitude . |
| 22 | Because our winter closes in so sharply , whatever we sow for overwintering must go in earlier , and that means August . |
| 23 | Louisa gasped with delight to see the man and his reflection travel together so fluently . |
| 24 | The question popped up so regularly I was getting used to it . |
| 25 | So , the major reason why the modern carp angler is successful lies with the fact that the boilie , the hair-rig and the bolt-rig marry together so well ; they are complementary to each other . |
| 26 | It 's not often that sponsorship pays off so handsomely , and Pick-popper Sanderson Electronics Plc must be feeling pretty pleased with itself , getting to both cup finals : its local team , Sheffield Wednesday , whose players bear the Sanderson name on their breasts , will be contesting the League Cup this weekend and the FA Cup in May — against Arsenal on both occasions . |
| 27 | ft was then necessary to review the work carried out so far , which , due to the extensive coding exercise and sheer size of the database , was making it difficult to ‘ see the wood for the trees ’ . |
| 28 | Work carried out so far has concentrated on seeking residents ' views on the problems of the estate and discussion on ways of resolving them . |
| 29 | On the uppermost landing , flanked by warders , stood a tall , powerfully-built figure in a dark blue suit , his greying hair slicked back so severely it appeared that he was bald . |
| 30 | Never in the history of their friendship had Candy given up so easily — and she did n't believe for one split second she had now . |