Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [vb pp] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How the Mini Master will be regarded by Britain 's Civil Aviation Authority remains to be seen , but the CAA has indicated so far that it will expect pilots flying the aircraft to be holders of a multi engine rating , which currently costs around £1,200 to obtain on a conventional twin aircraft . |
| 2 | CA-Unicenter for HP-UX has performed so well at four major beta sites says Islandia , New York-based Computer Associates International Inc , that the company is bringing the systems management product for mission-critical applications forward and it will now be generally available in the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 3 | Christopher Columbus did it with a smaller crew than Taylor has tried so far . |
| 4 | The plan to construct a political union in Europe on the model of the German Federal Republic betrays just this kind of defective level of political maturity from which Germany has suffered so badly in the past . |
| 5 | One of the reasons why Montgomerie has done so well as a professional is that he has stayed basically with the swing which brought him Walker Cup honours in his student days in Texas . |
| 6 | Conran has gone so far as ending catwalk exhibitions totally in favour of presentation by video . |
| 7 | By the end of August , Brusilov had advanced so far as to make replenishment of men and matériel difficult , often impossible . |
| 8 | Rachel was invited to join them and she was happy to do so , but for the rest of the day she could n't forget that moment when David had moved so close to her ; she could n't forget the look in his eyes , a look that had implied that the conclusions drawn by others about his intentions towards her could be well founded . |
| 9 | Doublethink had entered so completely into Ceauşescu 's soul by the 1980s that he could genuinely bask in what he took to be sincere affection at the same time as he knew how stage-managed the whole event was . |
| 10 | Unlike the sycophantic official court chronicles — the Shah Jehan Nama that Dr Jaffery had spent so long transcribing — the accounts of the two European travellers were packed with reams of malicious bazaar gossip . |
| 11 | Knowing full well that it was n't on her account that Travis had worked so hard , Leith shrugged . |
| 12 | His own queen , whom Surere had revered so deeply , when she requested that she be buried not in the new City of the Horizon , but near her old home , in the Valley of the Dead across the river from the Southern Capital , had been granted her wish , though it had hurt Akhenaten deeply . |
| 13 | This involved the creation of an Intendant-General of Finance and a number of Secretaries of State : the cumbersome system of councils on which the Spanish Habsburgs had relied so heavily in the previous century began to fall into disuse , the Council of Castile alone remaining important . |
| 14 | And there at Stamford , the beautiful town that Celia Fiennes and Defoe had admired so much remained almost exactly as they had seen it : but fossilised , moribund . |
| 15 | Battle ‘ You ca n't be disappointed by a run like that , ’ said the jockey after User Friendly 's head-to-head battle with Subotica had gone so narrowly the wrong way for her army of fans . |
| 16 | As such , the move attempted to recapture the populist politics of " People Power " from which Aquino had mobilized so effectively against Marcos . |
| 17 | A tiny part of her wanted to confront him with what he 'd done ; yet she knew she could n't do it , could n't bear looking into his sea-blue eyes , or at the lips which had kissed her so tenderly the night before , only to laugh with Marianne today as he shared with her the secrets Shannon had confided so trustingly — so blindly ! |
| 18 | Katherine had looked so achingly beautiful when Mathilde had talked about it . |
| 19 | His dream was to transform the world , as the key to the Theory of Evolution for which Darwin had striven so long . |
| 20 | Yet England had played so well that , equally , there was no reason to think it would prove to be a flash in the pan . |
| 21 | It 's the reason why England have done so well in recent years , and , of course , it 's something that 's very close to my heart ’ . |
| 22 | In Jordan , where the authorities hope the experiment in democracy will become a model for other Arab states , King Hussein has opted so far to draw the fundamentalists into the government . |
| 23 | Mrs Brooks wondered who this morning 's visitor was , and where Mrs d'Urberville had gone so early . |
| 24 | ‘ Kennedy ’ is as good as anything The Prez have recorded so far in their brilliant career . ’ |
| 25 | In his second novel , The Inheritors , Golding has stood so far back from modern historical progress as to imagine the supersession of innocent , hairy Neanderthalers by ‘ bone-face men ’ in a prehistoric age : they wear clothes or , as the primitive eye sees it , they step outside their skins . |
| 26 | Indeed , Professor Roskell has gone so far as to suggest that the nobility could not be relied upon to attend parliament in the 1350s and 1360s even when they were present in England , and that these parliaments amounted to little more than tax bargaining sessions between the king and the commons . |
| 27 | I wondered whether Robert and Lili had spoken so often like this that neither had any longer the energy to shout , or whether there never had been anger between them . |
| 28 | I do n't think Joanne 's done so well in bar now . |
| 29 | Irony in Estella 's true background after Pip has tried so hard to distance himself from the lower classes and she turns out to have come from them . |
| 30 | For a moment , when Miles had looked so meltingly at her as those words poured from him , it seemed as though he were speaking to her , and the dark , wet night simply faded away from around her , and she was transported to a warm summer garden on the night of a Royal Ball . |