Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] so [adv] " in BNC.

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1 IT was a case of so near and yet so far for Linfield at Windsor Park last night .
2 There are the careerists amongst the senior management of the school , some of whom will seem to have ‘ sold out to the system ’ : to affect a philosophy in so far as it looks in their own interests to do so , to have become executives and to have lost touch with the pupils .
3 And then all of a sudden after so long you saw a new Alf .
4 Llewelyn turned from the harness that was being checked out of the armoury , and looked at his foster-son for a moment from so far away and by so dazzling a light that he seemed hardly to know him .
5 They claim that employers are unlikely to consider anyone who has been out of a job for so long .
6 Because I had n't been in a band for so long , there were plenty to choose from …
7 You 'd never know what way he 'd take you , being without a drink for so long . ’
8 How could they sit around in a stupor for so long ?
9 As I have often said , I believe that Israel within her pre-1967 frontiers is a democracy , which is not true of many , if any , other states in that part of the world , but she is not a democracy in so far as the occupied territories are concerned .
10 He was established as a lecturer in natural philosophy at Edinburgh University for many years , but it was not until the age of fifty-eight that his first publication is recorded , when his work on the structure of crystals culminated in his report ‘ on a method of so far increasing the divergence of the two rays in a calcareous spar that only one image may be seen at a time ’ ( Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal , vol. vi , 1829 ) .
11 It was a success in so much one did out of fifth M O Ts that prove to be forged and was identified very quickly .
12 But is it really sex appeal that has kept Tom Jones a star for so long ?
13 That he satisfied so impatient and fastidious a monarch for so long says much for his efficiency and sensitivity .
14 There is some authority to suggest that a doctor is under a duty to prevent the suicide of such a patient in so far as there is a duty to control the patient .
15 What was happening to them that this awareness had reached such a pitch in so short a time ?
16 To have continued to be so dependable and at the same time so exciting a batsman for so long , shows him to have been one of the greats of the game .
17 It must therefore be recognised that a court which has jurisdiction under article 5(3) over an action in so far as it is based on tort or delict does not have jurisdiction over that action in so far as it is not so based .
18 Lawfulness is clearly an issue in so far as one of the fundamental principles of the British , no less than most other constitutions , is that government action should take place under the authority of , and in accordance with law the narrow literal meaning of the rule of law — so that repeated unlawful actions or a perceived casualness towards the duty to comply with the law would in itself begin to raise doubts about the legitimacy of governmental action .
19 It is quite remarkable that from so early an age with so short a track record he should have inspired such an industry of interest .
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