Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] so [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It matters little whether there is much evidence of individualism creating achievement or loss so long as it is believed that it does . |
| 2 | In the case of a private company , a pre-1982 pre-emptive requirement is to be treated as if it were in its memorandum or articles so long as it remains a private company . |
| 3 | It is irrelevant to the Purchaser whether or not the Vendors know the warranties are right or wrong so long as they accept the risk . |
| 4 | Since Leopold ruled a small State and had neither fears nor ambitions so far as territorial changes were concerned ( he wished to establish the perpetual neutrality of the Grand Duchy as a tradition of European diplomacy , to give it more or less the status which Switzerland was to enjoy in the following century ) he was able to accept radical ideas and even try to realize them in practice in a way quite impossible to Frederick II or Catherine II . |
| 5 | Morrow ( 1980:Part 4 ) takes the subordination of text to purpose and prediction so far as to use the questions to construct the text ( through a series of student activities like speed-reading of parts of the text , reordering , and blank-filling ) while the text itself is hidden away at the back of the book for consumption afterwards . |
| 6 | In the following example from the organ pedal melody of the Entrée in Messiaen 's Messe de la Pentecôte , only four pitches are used , yet the composer reshapes the rhythms and note-orders so skilfully that there is no feeling of repetitiousness or monotony : In Example 17 , from the slow movement of Bartók 's Fourth String Quartet , we have a wonderfully sweeping melody which seems to grow out of the first bar . |
| 7 | The representative volume element is a sample that ( a ) is structurally entirely typical of the whole mixture on average , and ( b ) contains a sufficient number of inclusions for the apparent overall moduli to be effectively independent of the surface values of traction and displacement so long as these values are " macroscopically uniform " . |
| 8 | HyperCard has been a huge success , both because it combines power and ease-of-use so well and because Apple have given the software away bundled with every Macintosh sold since 1987 . |
| 9 | But they came the closest to looking like husband and wife so far when Charles handed Diana his pen after signing the visitors ' book at an Anglican Cathedral . |
| 10 | But the plains , savannahs , rivers and hills , all the way from Samburu down to the Masai Steppe , proved fruitful and the Masai built up their strength through the acquisition of women and cattle so successfully that they chased out the other tribes who were obliged to cling to the mountains or secrete themselves in the forests , land useless for cattle . |
| 11 | The new economic climate of the late sixteenth century brought advantages and disadvantages so far as the funeral was concerned . |
| 12 | Clearly Looe schoolboys were expected to have a nautical bent and those who had were promised they would ‘ … be shown to take Observations of the Sun , Moon and Stars so expeditiously and accurately as if actually at sea , Looe having the advantage of the Horizon thereat upwards of 110 degrees ’ . |
| 13 | This law enables the volume of a gas to be calculated at a specific temperature and pressure so long as the volume of the gas is known at another temperature and pressure . |
| 14 | Somehow in the days they had spent together he had twined himself within her heart and soul so completely that there was no denying he was there to stay . |
| 15 | But that night at the end of September which ended in revulsion and hatred so far as you were concerned had earlier come to a much more disgusting climax . |
| 16 | Any character carrying it will gain +10 bonuses to WS and BS so long as the book is kept next to the skin . |
| 17 | Incorporated practices are already permitted ( subject to local law requirements ) if their business is carried on only wholly outside England and Wales so long as all directors and shareholders are properly qualified lawyers ( ie barristers or solicitors or locally qualified advocates etc ) and the practice complies with the Overseas Practice Rules ( see above ) . |