Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] so [adv] [vb -s] " in BNC.

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1 There are plenty of good reasons why nationalism thirsts for identification with ethnicity , if only because it provides the historical pedigree ‘ the nation ’ in the great majority of cases so obviously lacks .
2 The frost expends its energy in freezing the water , not the vine , as the delicate bud ( RIGHT ) safely cocooned in its igloo of ice so vividly demonstrates
3 The only difference of opinion so far has been over boxing .
4 These structures can not really determine the form and content of a political movement — hence , as the entire story of Labourism so clearly demonstrates , when political parties embrace this basis they finish by being determined by quite different factors .
5 Social pressure towards more sensitive treatment of nature is unlikely to abate whilst our destruction of what remains of nature so clearly continues .
6 But the meeting of intellectual endeavour and the Wanderlust , which John of Salisbury so clearly represents , is at least a symbol to us of the channels these influences found .
7 To my mind , the major contribution of econometrics to our understanding of advertising so far has been to establish the relatively marginal effect of advertising expenditure level changes in comparison with price changes : typically , price movements relative to competition seem to account for as much as 70–80 per cent of the changes in brand shares in a market .
8 The only squeak of protest so far has come from a Law Society spokesman , Mr Jeremy Allen , who is also a Nottingham solicitor : ’ An enormous number of people had had their journeys interrupted and it has caused them concern .
9 Even so , the official response from Moscow so far has been muted .
10 The line from Paris so far has been consistent : devaluation would do more harm than good , by fuelling inflation and upsetting stability .
11 Getting itself involved in access so deeply has turned it from a benign , vaguely representative organisation into one whose role is increasingly to police the activities of climbing and climbers .
12 The one positive thing to emerge from privatisation so far has been the degree of accountability that has been imposed on Group 4 , far more stringent than the level the police and prison officers are used to .
13 He 's going to Cambridge so never lies !
14 Trespass by beasts so often takes the form of ‘ cattle trespass ’ ( with which we deal separately ) that one does not meet with many ordinary actions for trespass in the reports .
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