Example sentences of "for so [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was blonde and doll-faced , but her blue eyes gave the impression that she 'd just about seen everything , and rather more than was healthy for so short a life . |
| 2 | The notes refer to other dancers representing handmaidens , a bird and winds : rather complex for so short a work . |
| 3 | Taskopruzade includes in his account , however , between Molla Husrev 's appointments on the death of Hizir Bey and his departure for Bursa , a considerable amount of material more or less related to Molla Husrev 's activities in these capacities , enough to make it improbable in the extreme that he held the offices for so short a period . |
| 4 | Strange , she had been in Denmark for so short a time yet in those few days she had learned so much , not only about herself but about a country she had never even considered visiting before Suzie 's escapade . |
| 5 | What seemed so dreadful was that he waited so long for the Premiership , and held it for so short a time … |
| 6 | We can not be sure that they do so directly for so far no adult eel has been caught in mid-Atlantic . |
| 7 | Liza , while delighted at last to be in the company of Freddie Nash for so long a stretch , was nevertheless sorry to have to share him with this senior fellow officer , however much she had hitherto enjoyed driving Brigadier Smithson . |
| 8 | At the same time as this was happening teachers demanded to be treated ‘ as professionals ’ , scornfully ignoring the view , repeatedly expressed , that the disruption of children 's education for so long a period was hardly the behaviour that one might expect from members of a ‘ profession ’ . |
| 9 | The new Act abolished the old method of arranging with creditors by a deed of composition , assignment or otherwise ‘ which has for so long a time disgraced our law ’ . |
| 10 | So much peace and plenty , for so long a time . |
| 11 | It was , wrote the best-known and most influential of them , the Abbe de Saint-Pierre , ‘ that vain Idol to which the Nations have Sacrificed so blindly , so fruitlessly , and for so long a Time , so much Blood and Treasure ’ . |
| 12 | PENARTH , for so long the chopping blocks of senior Welsh club rugby , gained their first-ever Heineken League win by beating Ebbw Vale 13–12 . |
| 13 | The Bank of England , for so long the City 's unofficial leader , is also discredited . |
| 14 | They arranged them on the sand lemons or onions or oranges — in careful little piles and sold them for so much a pile . |
| 15 | It is rare for a house of this size and date to remain thatched , for so often the roof pitch would be changed to accommodate the more convenient slates or tiles . |
| 16 | It is aisleless , cruciform and the nave is of the twelfth century with three large domical vaulted square bays in ashlar construction and is very wide , having a vault spanning 54 feet and which is 80 feet high — a remarkable achievement for so early an example . |