Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It does n't seem to bother you that it has n't been altogether successful so far . ’ |
| 2 | A stuff sack should be used to carry your bag in a rucksack , but stuff sacks are rarely waterproof so always put the whole lot inside a polythene bag . |
| 3 | All these things , if I may say so , are entirely irrelevant so far as Dr Hill is concerned . ’ |
| 4 | Mr Williams , a former Wirral councillor said : ‘ The college has been highly successful so far and we have a strong and supportive new governing body to cope with the much increased responsibilities that come with independence . ’ |
| 5 | But so long as English law refuses to recognise that parent companies are under a legal as well as a moral obligation to meet the debts of their subsidiaries the group accounts are largely irrelevant so far as creditors are concerned since they normally have resort only against the individual company with which they have dealt . |
| 6 | Oh they 're very good so long as |
| 7 | The effects of global warming have been fairly benign so far , according to scientists in the USA , with most of the temperature rise taking place at night and in the winter and spring . |
| 8 | If it does go ahead the proposals to close it will be somewhat late so why do n't we look at them now . |
| 9 | I 'm in London I 'm in the nick I 'm in fucking Paddington Green for Christ 's sake , the high-security station they use for the Provos and they think I 'm so dangerous so much a security risk they 've got me here and even holding me under the Prevention of Terrorism Act Jesus God because some of them still are n't convinced they are n't dealing with some unholy alliance of the IRA , Welsh Nationalists and uppity jocks . |
| 10 | Oh God I 'm so lonely so utterly alone . |
| 11 | Some colleagues are giving me some messages to read out it would n't be appropriate to do so today because colleagues they er forget them , so I 'm gon na do them tomorrow which will be more appropriate so please do n't think that I 've er forgotten them . |
| 12 | This is good news for the company since all three markets are relatively recession-proof so far as the demand for their product is concerned , which in turn makes them a fairly buoyant customer base . |
| 13 | These were highly controversial so far as the implementation of the Regulation is concerned , with the British Department of National Heritage fearing an increase by 250,000 in export documents required by the antiquities trade , as all archaeological goods , even of no value , are required to have export papers . |
| 14 | My feet had grown and the man said my shoes were too small so now I 'm going to wear my sandals all the time . |
| 15 | I think most people would agree that the writings of James Herriot are pretty unimportant so far as book pages are concerned . |
| 16 | ’ It 's been pretty trivial so far . |
| 17 | But it is conspicuously absent so far . |
| 18 | Second , in the NATO member states , the relative lack of formal restrictions has contributed to the public unease about defence policy , which is associated in people 's minds with threats of all-out nuclear war : far from assisting deterrence this situation is highly corrosive so far as effective defence and deterrence are concerned . |
| 19 | That prospect is anyway slight so long as Soviet-American cosiness continues and Iraq 's war machine remains broken . |
| 20 | This is probably acceptable so long as we restrict ourselves to a single group , like mammals , but there is some dissent when people seek to extrapolate mechanisms from non-vertebrate species , like molluscs , to the mammalian brain ( e.g. Hawkins and Kandel 1984 ) . |
| 21 | If it is readily intelligible so much the better ; but it is far more important that it should yield its meaning accurately than that it should yield it on first reading , and the Legal draftsman can not afford to give much attention , if any , to euphony or literary elegance … . |
| 22 | Eventually I might crack if the pressure gets too much , but it 's pretty mellow so far . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's pretty boring so far . |
| 24 | From time to time a ferret does get bitten by a rat , usually by a female defending her young , but the clash is never fatal so far as the ferret is concerned . |
| 25 | Wet hair tends to stretch and break and is very vulnerable so never use a bristle brush on hair when wet . |
| 26 | Therefore i if we , if he done that then that paragraph would seem to be slightly and the second point was really to ask if there was any further update on the progress in terms of negotiations in Surrey and East Sussex er in terms of this erm particular by-pass and I know that Mr in particular has been concerned with negotiations and Mrs also erm Mrs is not here therefore as Mr could advise me for us o of where we 're at really , so that we fully understand because obviously the the line of the by-pass is very important so far as any further development is is concerned . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , Health Ministry officials said on April 13 that foreign aid had " been very insignificant so far " . |
| 28 | With our high standard of food and a quality presentation , we are on to a winner and the school has been very impressed so far . ’ |
| 29 | He says that he expected more mud slinging ; Dowty has been very gentlemanly so far . |
| 30 | More than 20,000 copies have been distributed throughout the country and Langbaurgh Council 's chief tourism and leisure officer Paddy Corcoran said : ‘ Response has been very encouraging so far . ’ |