Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] so [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once you have experienced and enjoyed the particular flavour of playing for your country in a cap international you just want to do so again and again . |
| 2 | But there are times when the analogies get stretched so far that the brain starts to lose contact with the original image . |
| 3 | We shall not only survive but continue to grow so long as we give value for money , retain our record of innovation and flexibility , keep the confidence and goodwill of our clients and ensure that we have the best possible range of materials , methods and people in the industry . |
| 4 | They also extend the traditions of the area — the working over of old dumps by ‘ dressers ’ has taken place since ancient times and will , no doubt , continue to do so long after the mines close down . |
| 5 | And sometimes they decide to do so just because the alternatives seem so appalling . |
| 6 | Wildebeest movements follow , at a distance of a few days , the pattern of rainfall ; but they only keep moving so long as rain is falling or has recently fallen within the area scanned by their senses . |
| 7 | This means that Snotlings can be very frustrating to fight , because no matter how many are slain they keep fighting so long as their neighbours hold steady . |
| 8 | We 're already eleven weeks into the year and er so my talk 's gon na centre on what we 've done so far and what we expect to happen . |
| 9 | Well probably because er you know we try and keep up er er certain standard every year and er you know it 's very important doing a video that you have the right songs for it , you know to get a story book set up for each song and this one we felt when we had it finished was probably you know the best we 've done so far and lucky enough we 've been proved right . |
| 10 | Do n't be impatient , assimilate the knowledge and learning you 've gained so far and then when the time is right you will coast forward even faster . |
| 11 | FEW companies have fallen so far and fast as IBM . |
| 12 | In recent years , it has been argued that the position and powers of the Prime Minister have altered so considerably that it makes sense to talk about the rise of prime ministerial government and the transformation of the Cabinet into yet another " dignified " part of the constitution . |
| 13 | Themes in existence by 1950 were continued in subsequent decades but they have developed so extensively and changed so dramatically that their origins may now appear to be many years away . |
| 14 | It should be clear from what I have said so far that the police national computer is exactly that — for use by the police in the United Kingdom . |
| 15 | Okay , we can agree what I have said so far but then I 'm going to have to look at other things once I 've made further changes . |
| 16 | Although that is not this case , I have done so both because we were told that it would be helpful to all those concerned with the treatment of minors and also perhaps the minors themselves and because it seems to be a logical base from which to proceed to consider the powers of the court and how they should be exercised . |
| 17 | I am delighted that they have done so well that it is now proposed , even in these difficult times , to increase their establishment . |
| 18 | I expect you remember the students at ‘ Holy Cross ’ , Maung Pe , now Bishop of Akyab , John Aung Hla , Bishop of Mandalay , and Ba Maw , Bishop of Toungoo — all Pop 's students , who have done so well and were so faithful during the Japanese occupation of Burma . |
| 19 | Older people comprise a large proportion of those living in poverty in Britain and have done so ever since the systematic studies of Charles Booth ( 1894 ) at the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 20 | For we , like all animal species , have an optimum group size and it is one that we have exceeded so dramatically that our species is already well on its way to massive self-destruction . |
| 21 | You need to wee so perhaps when daddy goes up |
| 22 | THINGS have deteriorated so far and so fast at Higgs & Hill that shareholders were lucky to be offered anything as a final dividend . |
| 23 | SALARIES for university law teachers have slipped so badly and professional salaries risen so dramatically that experienced staff are being lost at an alarming rate , the Committee of Heads of University Law Schools reported this week . |
| 24 | ‘ Our preparations have gone so well that none of us can wait to get there and begin in earnest . |
| 25 | But things have gone so well that by June 1993 he hopes to launch a further 20 growers . |
| 26 | Some translators of the Bible have gone so far as to postpone the main verb until the divine fiat : And God said , Let there be light . |
| 27 | Such speeds would seem to be at variance with the shared space concept ; indeed some have gone so far as to suggest eight km/h as a more appropriate maximum consistent with child safety . |
| 28 | Some , such as Alan Walker , have gone so far as to argue that ‘ retirement is largely a twentieth century phenomenon ’ , and that ‘ the increasing dependency of elderly people in Britain has been socially engineered in order to facilitate the removal of older workers from the labour force ’ . |
| 29 | Indeed , some people have gone so far as to elevate these restrictions on the initial conditions and the parameters to the status of a principle , the anthropic principle , which can be paraphrased as , ‘ Things are as they are because we are . |
| 30 | In many cases local authorities have taken the initial steps and some have gone so far as to form housing associations for the specific purpose of transfer . |