Example sentences of "this [noun] so [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 A bad year was a disaster to the small peasant while it might well benefit the large farmers or merchants who could store grain for ten years , ‘ observing this rule so consistently that they would pawn their last jewels or load their lands with mortgages until years of high prices ’ .
2 To quote that part of this Act so far as it affects a member of a local authority may be useful .
3 They have pursued this dream so fiercely that they can not afford to admit any self-doubt .
4 ‘ We would not have stayed with this product so long if we did not believe there was potential to make at least £20 million annual profit from it , ’ Shaw says .
5 Nothing illustrates this point so clearly as the fate of a paper published in 1874 by C. Nägeli entitled Verdrängung der Pflanzenformen durch ihre Mitbewerber .
6 It seems to be happening far too often , and I wonder i I wonder what 's actually going wrong that this happening so often and in so many places , seems to be something that you know , perhaps we need to address it far more generally as a problem of housing management as a whole .
7 Inflationary expectations will be revised upwards , eventually to 4 per cent according to Friedman , and the appropriate Phillips curve will shift upwards to curve B. As it does so , unemployment rises back to the NUP and the economy moves to point F. At this point , the actual and expected rates of inflation are 4 per cent , and inflation will stay at this rate so long as the new money supply growth rate is maintained .
8 At the very least the Purchaser will expect the Vendor to give this warranty so far as it is aware .
9 It seemed to [ Judith ] that the emperor 's good physical condition might not last much longer , and his death would threaten danger to herself and to Charles unless they could win over one of Charles 's elder brothers to work with them , and they calculated that none of the emperor 's sons would fit this role so well as Lothar .
10 But they had had this conversation so often and to such little purpose that he had long ago abandoned his part of the dialogue .
11 ‘ He gave me six points for this country so clearly that I saw them as if on a black-board and could simply copy them down . ’
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