Example sentences of "[art] [noun] so [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Gerry Grimstone , a director of Schroders , the Government 's merchant bank for the water flotations , claimed that the response so far had been extremely encouraging , with interest spread broadly across the country and ‘ no signs of an investor strike ’ in any of the regions .
2 The response so far has been promising .
3 Criticism has come mainly from local authorities , which reckon that the funding so far promised falls far short of that required .
4 Much of the funding so far has come from the US , through the Environmental Protection Agency , the Agency for International Development , and the US World Wide Fund for Nature 's conservation fund .
5 There is still some way to go before we have an agreement on economic and monetary union , but the discussions so far have shown that it is possible to thrash out a sensible position in negotiations .
6 The investigations so far have shown no evidence of such an elaborate organization , ’ Kopyion seemed to answer before he 'd finished .
7 For example , the superfield of Applied Science should adequately represent all the subfields listed above , but within the text so far obtained this superfield contains 6 computing texts , 3 engineering texts , 1 energy text , 1 transport text , and none on technology or communications .
8 One of the major tenets of the mental models theory of text comprehension is that the model of the text so far provides ( part of ) the context for understanding the current sentence .
9 Over the past few years we have been working on such an account , and in this paper we focus on the implications of this account for a central tenet of the mental models approach : that the mental model of the text so far provides ( part of the context for the interpretation of the current sentence or clause .
10 In this paper we have outlined two lines of research that address the question of exactly how the mental model of the text so far provides ( part of ) the context for interpreting the current sentence .
11 Despite a successful reduction of the budget deficit [ see p. 38020 for 1991 budget ] , the report cautioned that " much of the progress so far has resulted from buoyant economic activity rather than from structural reforms in the economy " and argued in favour of further deregulation of the economy .
12 A second cemetery has been identified at Borstal , about a mile south-west of the town near the river bank ; it appears to have contained mainly inhumations , and the coins so far recovered would indicate a third- and fourth-century use .
13 These are not gratuitous embellishments : they integrate into the sound texture of the language the extremes of infinite space and microscopic detail between which the description so remarkably ranges .
14 The accent so far has been on production and we need to spread its use in the commercial , R&T and other support functions .
15 When the philosopher-agronomists advocated new crops and new methods they were met with the excuse so often given to Cavanilles on his tour of Aragon , ‘ We do as our fathers do . ’
16 C. F. G. Masterman in his contribution to Smith 's report observed the ‘ manifest tendency of the Nonconformist worshippers to collect together into strong centres … which is inevitable where preaching is so emphasised and the stimulus and guidance of the pulpit so much desired ’ .
17 However , the literature so far described is concerned almost entirely with social work at the micro level : individuals , families and small groups , much of it using techniques that are of little relevance to community work , for example behaviour modification .
18 The cases so far decided do not exhaust the possible factual permutations which give the courts such difficulty in distinguishing between leases and licences .
19 In both the cases so far considered in this Chapter , the customer took the goods under an agreement between himself and the dealer .
20 Genetic studies have established that the mutations so far characterized belong to probably four different complementation groups and that some of them are recessive ( 8–15 ) .
21 But experience shows that language — and , particularly , language adopted or concurred in under the pressure of a tight Parliamentary timetable — is not always a reliable vehicle for the complete or accurate translation of legislative intention ; and I have been persuaded , for the reasons so cogently deployed in the speech of my noble and learned friend , that the circumstances of this case demonstrate that there is both the room and the necessity for a limited relaxation of the previously well-settled rule which excludes reference to Parliamentary history as an aid to statutory construction .
22 The result is a very friendly room without the formality so often associated with many dining areas .
23 It would be like a strong wind tearing into the warmth , ripping the fabric of the old rugs , overturning the lamps , plucking loose all the hair so skilfully wound up into neat and careful buns , unravelling her mother 's dainty stitches , unravelling her mother .
24 Yusuf 's forces returned in strength and began to win back many of the states so recently conquered by Alfonso and by El Cid in their separate campaigns .
25 One important corollary of the decision that obscene material must have more serious effects than arousing feelings of revulsion is the doctrine that material which in fact shocks and disgusts may not be obscene , because its effect is to discourage readers from indulgence in the immorality so unseductively portrayed .
26 But the enthusiasm so often expressed in favour of change produced little movement within the industry .
27 The necessary contact could partly be maintained by means of meetings and round-table discussions of the kind so successfully organised at Uig for the Arkleton Trust , but it would be desirable to give it some more concrete , institutional form as well .
28 I say this because the Sloth so far has done nothing and it appears he does n't plan to do anything except now he is reading a James Michener book .
29 Everyone who 's commented on the album so far reckons it 's pretty melancholy , but I do n't see it like that at all .
30 Everyone who 's commented on the album so far reckons it 's pretty melancholy , but I do n't see it like that at all .
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