Example sentences of "it [verb] [vb pp] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Airtours is keen to expand , but as Mr Coe points out , it has expanded so far mainly by organic growth and would like to continue it that way . |
| 2 | It has survived so long because abolishing it would have been more trouble than it was worth , but that does not make it any better in itself . |
| 3 | Actually , Apple has been porting its ToolBox , the source of the Mac interface , the crown jewels it has guarded so long , over to the IBM Corp RS/6000 , Hewlett-Packard Co 9000 and Sun Microsystems Inc Sparc machines under the code name Cat in the Hat ( UX No 419 ) . |
| 4 | Actually , Apple has been converting its ToolBox , the source of the Mac interface , the crown jewels it has guarded so long , for the IBM Corp RS/6000 , Hewlett-Packard Co HP 9000 and Sun Microsystems Inc Sparc machines under a project that it calls Cat in the Hat ( CI No 2,090 ) . |
| 5 | The main problem in windsurfing is that it has developed so rapidly in the last ten years that boards only a few years old are very out of date and lack the features mentioned earlier . |
| 6 | From the debate as it has developed so far , various things seem to me to be clear : |
| 7 | Indeed , it has become so well used in relational DBMS that it is described in a separate chapter of this text ( Chapter 8 ) . |
| 8 | It has become so much a part of them that they are often unaware of its existence . |
| 9 | The sphere of poetry became more and more peripheral , and it has remained so ever since … . |
| 10 | Set up under a special government programme in 1989 with funding for three years , it has done so well it is to carry on in a slimmed down form under a new name Tees Valley Conference and Visitor Bureau under the control of the Northumbria Tourist Board . |
| 11 | It has done so admirably , but it has also generated immense interest among local wildlife . |
| 12 | It has done so now in response to what it feels is a growing impatience from its members with the continuing reluctance of landowners to permit access to their property . |
| 13 | The present UK Conservative government seems eager to remove controls even in cases where many people consider them beneficial , for equally political reasons ; but it has done so far more quickly in some areas than others . |
| 14 | But apart from some rhetoric about acting to protect human health , all it has done so far is commission a report from the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food . |
| 15 | It will then " give up " and return what it has got so far . |
| 16 | ‘ I am delighted and surprised it has happened so quickly , ’ Mr Janner said . |
| 17 | It has taken so long , so much love and effort to create . |
| 18 | They also have the occasional darker overtones , and it is astonishing with such colourful , approachable music that it has taken so long for four of the overtures here to receive their first recordings . |
| 19 | Would it have mattered so very much if Heather had found out about it ? |
| 20 | It had become so much a matter of routine that when she answered he came close to putting the phone down before he realized that all he 'd heard was , ‘ Hello . ’ |
| 21 | He had enjoyed the performance but felt it had become so obviously a theatrical production that it was now a long way from what had taken place in the Middle Ages . |
| 22 | It had begun so well . |
| 23 | Its expressed view , that the Uprising was part of that violence which the United States now wished the PLO to bring to an end , indicated it wished to eliminate the source of the new political reality , against which it had laboured so long through its preference for negotiations through Jordan . |
| 24 | If it were possible to unfold the entire long history of the world 's religions in such a manner that it could be scrutinised , assimilated and judged in a single all-embracing operation , the verdict would be that it had strayed so far from the basic human need , and so far from the intentions of those good and sincere people who have throughout that history struggled to maintain its integrity , that it might well be condemned outright as a story of failure unmatched by anything else that has ever happened on earth . |
| 25 | Asked why it had taken so long for Doris to get back in touch with this world , Mr Lacey explained that it was probably the exhaustion caused by her illness , the brain operation and unsuccessful medical treatment . |
| 26 | It had taken so long … it had taken two young ensigns , a native pensioner and a Eurasian clerk to lift him up to this platform , and now he would have to get himself down again ! |
| 27 | It had seemed so very straightforward at first , at the time of his recruitment . |
| 28 | It had started so insidiously , the odd remark if she happened to meet a friend when they were together . |
| 29 | Early had his hand on his gun , but it had happened so fast even he could n't do anything . |
| 30 | It was almost too much to take in , how it had happened so quickly , so unexpectedly . |