Example sentences of "be [adv] so [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have n't been up so late since Studio 54 closed , ’ confessed socialite Nan Kempner during a recent encounter . |
| 2 | Under section 265 the English court has jurisdiction , for example , over a debtor who is a foreign national who has never lived or been here so long as , at a time within the last three years , he was a member of a firm which carried on business in this country . |
| 3 | It was of course simple mischance that this rat-tat should happen , even though the kiosk is not so far as I know a particularly busy one . |
| 4 | The issue is not so much whether or how far the sense of grievance or of legitimate right can be justified objectively but rather its potency as a force in the equation , just as an unwavering Jewish belief in the right to all Eretz Israel has proved indispensable to the achievements of Zionism . |
| 5 | * What is of importance here is not so much whether or not the label ‘ perceptual ’ is appropriate as whether this task is susceptible to the effects of pre-training in the same way as the motor tasks discussed earlier . |
| 6 | The problem is not so much whether you can or ca n't but rather whether you want to . |
| 7 | The important question , though , is not so much whether such features are or are not objectively present , but what significance and function one should assign to them if they are . |
| 8 | It is not so long till some bushes are there . |
| 9 | It 's not so long since we learned the link between eating certain ‘ E ’ numbers and the behaviour of highly disruptive children . |
| 10 | It 's not so long since it was in the United States and er I 'm quite shocked really , but I 'm er I mean Manchester did a terrific job really . |
| 11 | And that is n't so long since they 'd seen her |
| 12 | I think part of the thing about stress is n't so much whether it 's a chemical effect , but it 's a having a cigarette is a way of creating a wee break if you 're if you 're busy and as a , that can be really difficult for women to do , actually demand a bit of time for themselves . |
| 13 | ‘ Goat stinks , ’ said Camille , for it was not so long since she had been frequently taken by Connie to children 's zoos where these creatures — mostly nannies and kids — were considered suitably sized and disposed to mingle briefly with the children of men . |
| 14 | It was not so long since that the fashionable had discarded their wigs and taken to cultivating natural heads . |