Example sentences of "the [noun pl] so [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is still some way to go before we have an agreement on economic and monetary union , but the discussions so far have shown that it is possible to thrash out a sensible position in negotiations . |
| 2 | ‘ The investigations so far have shown no evidence of such an elaborate organization , ’ Kopyion seemed to answer before he 'd finished . |
| 3 | A second cemetery has been identified at Borstal , about a mile south-west of the town near the river bank ; it appears to have contained mainly inhumations , and the coins so far recovered would indicate a third- and fourth-century use . |
| 4 | The cases so far decided do not exhaust the possible factual permutations which give the courts such difficulty in distinguishing between leases and licences . |
| 5 | In both the cases so far considered in this Chapter , the customer took the goods under an agreement between himself and the dealer . |
| 6 | Genetic studies have established that the mutations so far characterized belong to probably four different complementation groups and that some of them are recessive ( 8–15 ) . |
| 7 | But experience shows that language — and , particularly , language adopted or concurred in under the pressure of a tight Parliamentary timetable — is not always a reliable vehicle for the complete or accurate translation of legislative intention ; and I have been persuaded , for the reasons so cogently deployed in the speech of my noble and learned friend , that the circumstances of this case demonstrate that there is both the room and the necessity for a limited relaxation of the previously well-settled rule which excludes reference to Parliamentary history as an aid to statutory construction . |
| 8 | Yusuf 's forces returned in strength and began to win back many of the states so recently conquered by Alfonso and by El Cid in their separate campaigns . |
| 9 | ‘ What I liked in the books was the free open-air life , the spice of illegality and daring , roguish characters — the opportunities so far exceeding my own , the gun , the great pond , the country home , the apparently endless leisure — the glorious moments that one could always recapture by opening the Poacher — and the tinge of sadness here and there as in the picture of the old moucher perishing in his sleep by the lime kiln , and the heron flying over in the morning indifferent . ’ |
| 10 | Since then the Scots have perfected the art and , using the elements so generously provided for them by nature , distilled the whisky which today is inextricably woven into Scotland 's history , customs and culture . |
| 11 | In Spain , what Henry Kamen has called the ‘ series of autos de fe which burnt out Protestantism ’ began at Valladolid in May 1559 , while in France , at exactly the same time , persecution of the Calvinists so much increased that Calvin 's greatest follower , Theodore Beza , began to question Calvin 's insistence on non-resistance to authority . |
| 12 | The Colourcode play funk as hard as the Red Hot Chili Peppers , but with the feel that the Chilis so obviously lack on their heavy-handed interpretation of Stevie Wonder 's ‘ Higher Ground ’ . |
| 13 | The Colourcode play funk as hard as the Red Hot Chili Peppers , but with the feel that the Chilis so obviously lack on their heavy-handed interpretation of Stevie Wonder 's ‘ Higher Ground ’ . |
| 14 | Neither of the formulas so far mentioned will do ; the Gibbs formula gives an entropy that for an isolated system of molecules is easily shown to stay constant in time rather than to increase , and the Boltzmann formula also does not have the desired non-decrease property if the system is not a gas . |
| 15 | In comparison with the countries so far considered some rather different distinguishing characteristics typify the trade union movement in Australia . |
| 16 | Having said that , it would be possible to extract from the rhetoric , and the general statements of the NCC and from the syllabuses so far produced , words which might suggest that the NCC executives agree . |
| 17 | She turned the pages of the fashion magazine over , but her eyes did n't take in any of the models so enticingly displayed in its pages ; her attention was all focused inwards on herself . |
| 18 | He has enlisted Government help and interest in the RCA ; he has raised money for the renovations so badly needed at the college , and for building additional accommodation nearby for students . |
| 19 | In armies the power relations are so clear , and the rights and obligations of the participants so firmly established , that any one of these comments is likely to be punished as facetiousness or disobedience — even though no explicit order has been given . |
| 20 | Certainly the weaknesses so far identified do not indicate any general shortfalls in the quality of audit work , the review says , but until the JMU has carried out more inspections and increased its database of information , it is too early to be more definitive . |
| 21 | Before going on to it however , the writer wishes to recapitulate as a means of recording further thoughts on the ideas so far put forward . |
| 22 | Since the new forms of treatment set up have not reduced the demand for state hospital admissions and the alternatives so far devised have not guaranteed more cost-effective services , the move into the community can be seen to be reaching a critical stage of development . |
| 23 | Feeling good about nothing specific is not , so to speak , an unattached or free-floating phenomenon , unpossessed or unhad. ( iv ) Finally , and clearly , all of the contents so far mentioned are different in character from those which get definition by way of language-or rather , get definition only or more explicitly by way of language . |
| 24 | His plan was to push the banks into investing more risk capital — a pressure which the banks so far have been able to resist . |
| 25 | Does my right hon. Friend further agree that the founders of the health service would be horrified at the resistance to the reforms so ably carried out by the Government for the benefit of patients throughout the country ? |
| 26 | The equally conservative nobles of Smolensk echoed Tula 's belief in the need for joint discussions with " representatives from other provinces ' , while the nobles of Tver " , one of the few gentry groups to espouse the cause of immediate emancipation rather than the conversion of serfs into temporarily obligated peasants , argued that the new laws had been botched , that " the reforms so urgently required can not be achieved by a bureaucratic order " , and that the " convocation of elected representatives from all the Russian land represents the only means for a satisfactory solution " . |
| 27 | In North America , in areas where conditions are similar to this country , a survey showed that one per cent of houses were affected by damp , but rot was not found in any of these , and in the few years of experience here none of the faults so far reported are due to this cause . |
| 28 | In passing our studies have helped to clear up some of the outstanding biological problems that underlie the reproductive biology of Bufo bufo , such as why it is that the males so greatly outnumber the females , and why they are smaller . |
| 29 | Donna Haber , of the white-collar union ASTMS , says that most of the studies so far have involved feeding genetically engineered E. coli to test subjects . |
| 30 | All the questions so far have related to hypnotherapy in general — whether or not regression forms part of that treatment . |