Example sentences of "[be] [verb] so [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 The usual way of expressing Boyle 's law , however , is Thus , when a gas is allowed to expand ( or is compressed ) at constant temperature from an initial volume of V1 to a final volume of V2 , the final pressure P2 can be calculated so long as the initial pressure Pl is known .
2 In its original form , it is a time-consuming and complicated procedure , but it can be simplified so long as the underlying principles are honoured ( see Arnold , 1982 ) .
3 The sets of values embedded in one 's goals in childhood have to be modified so radically and conflicts resolved so ruthlessly that few attempt it .
4 He therefore directed that if J. were to suffer a life-threatening event while in the health authority 's care and the required drugs and equipment were or could reasonably be made available , the health authority should cause such measures ( including artificial ventilation ) to be applied so long as they were capable of prolonging his life .
5 Eventually equipment purchases will have to be made so long as the demand for packaging is there .
6 The Bishop : ‘ I think it is a very balanced and very clear statement of how we should be living so far as our sexuality is concerned . ’
7 ‘ Hullo ! ’ , and this may be said so softly that it is almost inaudible and we only see the nostrils tremble .
8 Is the Minister satisfied that those humanitarian needs have been met and are being met , or that they can be met so long as there is a risk to the Kurdish population from the evil dictator in Baghdad ?
9 It can not be argued so categorically that this was the sole source of the style in the twelfth century or that it would not soon have developed in a similar manner elsewhere if the Île de France had not then produced it .
10 Some of the European Court of Justice 's opinions can be quite ‘ woolly ’ and do leave themselves open to a wider interpretation , but I do not believe that the opinion was meant to be interpreted so widely as to provide for an auditor recognised in one member state to practise in a second member state without any requirement to obtain local authorisation .
11 This has reversed the rule in Harbutts Plasticine Ltd v Wayne Tank and Pump Co Ltd [ 1970 ] 1 QB 447 , but it has not affected the rule in the Suisse Atlantique case [ 1967 ] 1 AC 61 that exemption clauses can not be construed to apply to fundamental breach unless clearly stated to do so ( See also the Securicor case mentioned above , where an exclusion clause was found to be drafted so widely as to exclude liability for a wilful default which was also a fundamental breach of the contract . )
12 British law in this area is roughly based on the liberal precept that immorality may only be tolerated so long as it remains a wholly private matter .
13 Yet this very claim for monarchy implies a limitation : the irrational and reverential institution is to be tolerated so long as it serves its function .
14 The units are expendable and can easily be replaced so long as the tree is healthy .
15 Asked to explain why his chain should be doing so well when so many others are going to the wall , Mr Myers points to stringent management .
16 ‘ No-one expected Rovers to be doing so well and challenging for the League , ’ he admitted .
17 But this will have to involve levelling up to the more advantaged rather than levelling down to the lesser , although future benefits can be reduced so long as diminution is applied equally to both sexes .
18 Although the laws will doubtless be tightened , no cure for the current state of financial laxity will be found so long as Yugoslavia has a ‘ soft budget ’ approach to monetary policy , and persists in its attempts to combine self-management with the doctrine of ‘ social ownership ’ .
19 Belief in the power of such plants can be traced back to the time of the Druids ; it was certainly part of the belief system of the Celtic peoples , and although it may not be voiced so explicitly as it once was , yet the custom of planting and preserving this special tree is still continued by some people .
20 A striking one came in 1760 when , at the marriage of the Princess of Brazil , the daughter of King Joseph I , the masterful Portuguese chief minister , the marques de Pombal , announced that though the papal nuncio and the imperial ambassador would take precedence over all other foreign envoys this would be governed so far as the rest of them were concerned simply by the dates on which they had presented their credentials .
21 Secondly , why did Sir Ralph just lie there and allow his throat to be cut so savagely that his head was almost hacked from his body ?
22 Without their dedicated service , the prison would not be run so well as it is .
23 In particular , in the interpretation of provisions of the SGA 1979 relating to implied terms , Lord Diplock said ( at p501 ) that the Act " ought not to be construed so narrowly as to force on parties to contracts for the sale of goods promises and consequences different from what they must reasonably have intended " .
24 ( d ) Party not to take advantage of his own wrong A lease will be construed so far as possible so as not to permit a party to it to take advantage of his own wrong .
25 Staffing standards therefore exceed the 4/73 baseline by a fifth and that should be welcomed so far as it is an attempt to provide favourably for a group in need .
26 In January 1949 the British cabinet ruled that co-operation with Europe should not be taken so far that it compromised Britain 's ability to survive as an independent state .
27 Do species have to be maintained so uniformly and tidily , so predictably , as if they were part of a genetic card index ?
28 Do species have to be maintained so uniformly and tidily , so predictably , as if they were part of a genetic card index ?
29 Never again in Anselm 's lifetime was the papal position to be stated so clearly and uncompromisingly .
30 Are the forces of the mightiest military power on earth to be deployed so sparingly that they might as well be shrunk much more than most imagine ?
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