Example sentences of "so [adv] [conj] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So rather than use this overworked word a more precise description of the artist 's style and concepts will be attempted with the help of his own text . |
| 2 | As you know Mr Mayor , we are inside the chamber , do n't believe in spending any more than is absolutely necessary in any part of any budget so rather than spend any extra money we are proposing an extra twenty thousand be taken out of the public conveniences budget . |
| 3 | Whoever used it did so rarely and left few traces . |
| 4 | She said : ‘ We are guilty of failing to provide for what is clearly a statutory service and I am truly appalled that we slipped up so badly and made such a serious mistake . |
| 5 | In another study of migrants in central Wales , Jones ( 1965 ) even went so far as to test all of Ravenstein 's laws , but he could only definitely confirm Laws 1 and 5 , which argue that most migrants only travel a short distance , but that those who do travel further migrate to the great centres of commerce and industry . |
| 6 | An editorial recently went so far as to say that more important than establishing a framework for research and development was doing something about the failure to disseminate and apply existing knowledge . |
| 7 | We might even go so far as to say that amplification of deviance among one group rather than among another could simply be due to chance . |
| 8 | So I think it 's easy to see that religion fulfils this civilizing socially controlling role , but of course , this has been a popular theme in sociological writing in the course of the twentieth century , indeed , you could go so far as to say this , it is has become a cliche , in twentieth century social science . |
| 9 | Sensing the dangers of such rivalry , the Communists intensified their attack on the ILP , going so far as to declare that disaffiliation was but a temporary manoeuvre . |
| 10 | The mitigation of the law was at first carried so far as to sacrifice that object , said J.S. Mill . |
| 11 | I will go so far as to concede that taken in isolation , ripped away from the defining context of humour and irony and friendship , studied in their literal or surface sense only , then , yes , the words I spoke in that room as Robert stood at the window pretending to take me seriously could be understood to mean that during the past six or seven years I had gone to bed with more than one hundred and fifty prostitutes . |
| 12 | Indeed , some people have gone so far as to elevate these restrictions on the initial conditions and the parameters to the status of a principle , the anthropic principle , which can be paraphrased as , ‘ Things are as they are because we are . |
| 13 | The recent Report of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution even goes so far as to recommend that straw burning should be banned in five years time . |
| 14 | He was even prepared to go so far as to admit that monotony was the most comfortable way . |
| 15 | Well , if you are typical of your birth sign , you will have already made up your mind and taken your leave around August 6th , when it became apparent that certain associates had sided against you or even gone so far as to hatch some kind of plot . |
| 16 | Scrap the thing so far and begin another . |
| 17 | As it spread , its uses diversified so fast as to make any introduction to twelfth-century sources on the scale attempted in the earlier parts of the book ( pp. 17–26 , 124–32 ) impossible . |
| 18 | O K the Cold War , you 've got Russia and America building up their arms and so on and fighting all these kind of erm secret battles . |
| 19 | To be sure , the great apes behave so intelligently and have such a rich social life that it seemed extraordinary to many people that they could not learn to speak . |