Example sentences of "but [adv] so [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But perhaps so too does the silence of the past 4 days . |
| 2 | Benjamin Franklin s contribution to the identification of electricity in the form of lightning is well known , but not so well appreciated are the subtlety and simplicity of his apparatus and experiments . |
| 3 | Druggets are made in India and the Balkan countries , usually from a combination of goat hair , cotton and jute , and are equally cheap and cheerful , but not so frequently found . |
| 4 | Decretal letters , in answer to queries about particular legal points , came to be the major source of declaration during the twelfth century , more numerous than the decrees of councils but not so easily disseminated for use . |
| 5 | After a long searching , entangled in other happenings , detained by pointless encounters far from the village , I wake , and that place whose spirit so often but always so briefly has been within my reach , is once more lost forever . |
| 6 | Private pietism fits in very nicely with privatisation , but then so too does Transcendental Meditation or the playing of Trivial Pursuits . |
| 7 | When I say it like that I 'm struck by how near that is to Pope 's ‘ What e'er was thought / But ne'er so well expressed ’ definition of poetry . |
| 8 | Although this metaphor of style as some kind of " adornment " or " covering " of thought or meaning is no longer widely current , it frequently appears in Renaissance and rationalist pronouncements on style , and is implicit , for example , in Pope 's well-known definition of wit : True wit is nature to advantage dressed , What oft was thought but ne'er so well expressed . |