Example sentences of "[adv] so [adv] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to these issues which arise from the nature of professional occupations and the control of professional courses , there are two other issues which lie at the heart of professional education , so much so indeed that they can be taken as defining characteristics of it . |
| 2 | Our knowledge is bounded by our ideas , and extends only so far as they are ideas of real essences . |
| 3 | The Evangelical party will perhaps continue to exalt their hero as partially as parties always do — but the members of it will act thus only so far as they are possessed by party spirit , rather than by the pure spirit of the doctrines which they hold in common with their so-called Catholic opponents , whom adversaries style popish . |
| 4 | There are increasing demands that the central institutions of the EEC should be reduced to a minimal role , that Member States should be allowed to integrate only so far as they wish , and that it should be possible for a country to remain within a European free-trade zone , but outside a politically united federation — as Norway , Iceland and the other Efta states have done since the establishment of the EEA . |
| 5 | Men like Pericles controlled policy not through any power vested in them but only so long as they could persuade the people . |
| 6 | Even among senior players , outside pursuits were tolerated only so long as they did not affect a player 's performance or make football of secondary importance to him . |
| 7 | They sit only so long as they continue to hold episcopal office . |
| 8 | Academics already in post retain their tenure only so long as they do not move to another university or accept promotion within their present university . |
| 9 | Everyone dominates central stage for a while , just so long as they need it , only to return it chivalrously after their moment . |
| 10 | But just so long as they take me somewhere where there 's the right kind of electricity … |
| 11 | Not necessarily , since both teachers and researchers will ultimately use readability formulae for just so long as they find them of some value . |
| 12 | Just so long as they could finish this stupid game and get on to his answer . |
| 13 | ‘ Fine — just so long as they understand that I mean what I say . ’ |
| 14 | Male victims above the age of consent might well be perceived as homosexual or latently so even if they are not . |
| 15 | It sounded unconvincing then , and it sounds the more so now as they nervously reassure the markets that no further interest rate cuts are planned . |
| 16 | and they 've done ever so well cos they did all Cos of course we had fine whether last week , they got everything done , and then it poured at the weekend but they were n't there , and now they 're back on site the weather 's cheered up again . |
| 17 | Although the skirt panels look perfectly flat when seen on air , in reality they follow varying angles to the original base vertical planes , bending ever so slightly as they rise up from the fender section to join up at the midriff . |
| 18 | Only later was this amended to allow the return of Yugoslavs home so long as they went willingly . |
| 19 | Ten minutes indoors in the small jug , and they all begin to open , sometimes so fast that they make us laugh . |
| 20 | I doubt that any of the Israelites wandering in the desert and occasionally venturing down to the water would have written those lines about God being mightier quite so confidently if they had seen big Waimea . |
| 21 | People just did n't take themselves quite so seriously as they do at Crufts . |
| 22 | Most ceremonies take place in a synagogue , but can be performed anywhere so long as they are under a chuppah ( wedding canopy ) . |
| 23 | C : I think that there 's some hope now with the Labour party because they 've — um — compromised themselves politically so far that they would n't … |