Example sentences of "[det] [modal v] [verb] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite a lot of fans , at one point or another , succeeded in starting off chants and songs , but few could do so consistently . |
| 2 | Few could go so far as Musurus Pasha , who during his thirty-five years as Turkish ambassador in London staffed the embassy entirely with his sons , nephews and sons-in-law ; but even in the most developed states of western Europe and on the eve of the 1914 conflict family influences could still be important . |
| 3 | The extent to which this need remain so tightly gender-related is debatable . |
| 4 | ‘ A good manager and record company has to explain this will go so far and stop . ’ |
| 5 | And when I go to Wales for a holiday and there are Welshmen , they 're just as good as I am , some can sing so much nicer , and I 've worked with Scotsmen in engineering factories , and there 's no better engineers than Scotsmen , but they do n't necessarily call them British . |
| 6 | Others dream when not fully asleep , either while waking ( hypnopompic dreams ) or while falling ‘ to sleep ( hypnagogic dreams ) , and a few can do so lucidly — Edgar Allan Poe and Robert Louis Stevenson are two examples of writers who have gained inspiration through the use of lucid hypnagogic dreams . |
| 7 | and in rugby so much can happen so quickly that I believe we have earned that 50–50 chance . ’ |
| 8 | Moreover , the curriculum was augmented by at least one thing directly attributable to the project , and this was the development of study skills , which according to the head was : one spin-off effect that I did n't envisage , I did n't realise that would come so quickly afterwards … |