Example sentences of "[to-vb] so [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Although the unemployment rate at 9.2 p.c. is , for the first time , on a par with the average in Britain , no serious observer expects it to remain so once the economy as a whole picks up . |
2 | What had happened to destroy so utterly the Paradise Restored of Thomas Baskerville , the neat town of Celia Fiennes , the exquisite spot of Charles Deering , to destroy it in the short space of three generations ? |
3 | Although the council had so far managed to hold a balance , its ability to do so once the king was crowned was more doubtful . |
4 | Although the council had so far managed to hold a balance , its ability to do so once the king was crowned was more doubtful . |
5 | It is our interests , rather than those of a degenerate and selfish minority , that the police should protect ; and if the law at present does not allow them to do so then the law must be changed . |