Example sentences of "so [adv] [subord] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She was saying so forcibly when the telephone interrupted her .
2 They did so mostly because the transactions depended on the new debt burden being temporary while bits of a firm were sold , but the burden turned out to be lasting .
3 Few of these , from the vantage point of 1990 , flourished as corporations so successfully as the BBC , which gained a reputation as one of the great creations of social and cultural policy in the twentieth century .
4 Express mention of the beneficial owner covenants will imply on the part of the assignor that the terms of the lease with regard to maintenance , decoration and repair have been complied with ; this may not be so especially if the husband has been absent from the property for some time ( see generally Butler v Mountview Estates [ 1951 ] 2 KB 563 ) .
5 So obviously when the war finished there was tremendous demand .
6 It ca n't go on for ever because characters such as the Fat Slags ( right ) can only go on so long before the joke starts to wear thin .
7 When on 5 September the Lords Lieutenant of the four most northerly counties were ordered to make their respective militias ready for immediate service , it emerged that neither Northumberland nor Durham had been reimbursed by central government for the money they had previously spent in keeping the force mustered , while the authorities in Cumberland admitted candidly : ‘ T is so long since the militia was raised that we are apprehensive the arms are either lost or in bad order . ’
8 They also extend the traditions of the area — the working over of old dumps by ‘ dressers ’ has taken place since ancient times and will , no doubt , continue to do so long after the mines close down .
9 Now , not so long after the rebels won , their war has been ignominiously recast in official Arab circles as a training school for religious terrorists .
10 So long as the adventurers keep out of the circle , all well and good .
11 The effect of s7(2) and ( 3 ) is that the other implied terms can not be excluded or restricted at all where the buyer deals as a consumer ; they can be excluded outside of consumer supply transactions so long as the supplier can show that such an exclusion is fair and reasonable .
12 But so long as the company 's objective is maximum profits , a concern with the welfare of third parties is necessarily an instrumental one : it is a means of protecting profitability in the long term .
13 ‘ Theoretically , yes , but that 's unlikely to happen so long as the company is successful and the shareholders approve of the way it 's run . ’
14 So long as the things being moved and shaken show no ripples …
15 So long as the army is loyal , the regime will survive .
16 The Soviet Union , for its part , let it be known that if serious trouble did break out in East Germany Soviet troops would not move in , as they did to quell the 1953 revolt — so long as the West did not interfere either .
17 8.4 If at any time is at default in performance or observance of any of its obligations under this Agreement , shall be entitled for so long as the default continues , but without prejudice to any other rights under this Agreement , to withhold delivery of the Licensed Software from notwithstanding that orders for the Licensed Software have been accepted by .
18 In particular , the option writer 's possible gain is restricted to the price at which he sells the option , the option premium , while his potential exposure to loss is unlimited so long as the contract remains open .
19 The units are expendable and can easily be replaced so long as the tree is healthy .
20 The lien of a solicitors ' firm over clients ' papers pending payment of its costs will not be lost by a change in membership so long as the papers have come into the firm 's possession before the change : they can not ( subject always to any specific arrangements with the client to the contrary ) lawfully be retained after such a change in respect of a debt falling due before that event .
21 In all the provisions there are exception clauses : an obligation can be revoked or modified only with consent ‘ unless it is established they had otherwise agreed ’ ; assent shall be presumed ‘ so long as the contrary is not indicated ’ ; a right may not be revoked or modified ‘ if it is established that the right was intended not to be revocable ’ .
22 As this process continues , the scope for further squeezing of the wealth of households through inflation is being reduced , and , so long as the authorities rely on inflation as a method of financing government expenditure , they will be obliged constantly to speed up the rate of inflation in order to achieve the same real effect .
23 I agreed , so long as the houseman would assure me that he was out of immediate danger .
24 He may have said that there will be no increase in German rates before Maastricht — indeed , hopefully , so long as the treaty is signed , not before our general election .
25 Most , however , had earned remission , which is given at a rate of five days per month , so long as the prisoner works to a satisfactory standard .
26 But the County Council still has some longer term debt , not external but internally , that is being paid now and not over time , and so the position actually will not change , so long as the Council continues to have more credit approval than it requires to use the new borrowing .
27 At the other extreme , Prof Patrick Minford believes that most of the UK 's problems are cyclical and will disappear as a spontaneous recovery takes root , filling the Chancellor 's coffers with tax revenues and creating new jobs , so long as the Chancellor has continued to keep inflation under control .
28 ‘ But so long as the system remains as it is , those who choose to disregard their obligations must realise they may face a fine . ’
29 Initially , output will be SIF resolution , or 352 by 240 pixels , 1.5Mbps and 30 frames a second but output can be generated at any format , resolution or bit rate that the application requires , so long as the system configuration is adequate to support the desired compression rates and quality factors .
30 This seems a paradox but it is not : the system is geared to the needs of the operating units but the units are expendable so long as the system remains intact .
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