Example sentences of "so [adv] [subord] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many girls were saying to me , ‘ I ca n't cope with having breasts , the hassle it brings , the fear of rape or the jokes and remarks from boys , the idea that I must be a slag or a ‘ goer ’ , so rather than try to deal with the whole world ( which I ca n't ) , I 'll just turn all my anger inwards against myself , against the thing I can control : my body . ’ |
| 2 | Linda Darnell despised him because he had treated her so badly when making Fallen Angel and Forever Amber . |
| 3 | So long as does increase and the organic composition of capital is not increasing rapidly , it will represent future consumption by productive workers , but will still be considered as a part of the surplus-value . |
| 4 | All this is , of course , true for others beside old people , and it is no part of the argument to categorise old people so separately as to further stigmatise them . |
| 5 | The implication of the argument is that 1823–4 , so far as petitioning to gain mass support was concerned , should be seen primarily as a new start in many places . |
| 6 | So far as getting to know her was concerned , it was apparent that Lieutenant Lapointe had achieved a start on him . |
| 7 | This country cost her too much ; indeed , she has gone so far as to refuse to discuss the topic . |
| 8 | In many cases local authorities have taken the initial steps and some have gone so far as to form housing associations for the specific purpose of transfer . |
| 9 | He did not go so far as to offer to guide them onward to Gilsland , by night , since that would have been to insult the Armstrongs , Jardines and Johnstones . |
| 10 | Two went so far as to offer to reduce the metered fare after having taken a wrong turn in error . |
| 11 | However , contributors to the Review were largely unwilling to go so far as to attempt to specify the nature of artistic quality in general , despite the fact that their own capacity to decide which texts were of sufficient interest in themselves to justify study depended upon recognizing such quality . |
| 12 | It is ironic that theories of federalism , especially of the German variety , should stress responsibility so strongly while failing to realise it in practice . |
| 13 | He had left home so hurriedly as to have packed not one of the poetry volumes that he was very seldom without . |