Example sentences of "so [adv] [conj] [noun] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So perhaps if people were aware of some of the places where wasps can go within their home , they might be able to sort of take those conscious That was n't actually what I had |
| 2 | There is no requirement that such serious results should have been foreseen or foreseeable , so long as D was trying to prevent an arrest . |
| 3 | Coleridge was the first to recognize that ‘ Freshmen always begin very furiously ’ ; but so long as Middleton was at hand to guide and encourage , he overcame the weakness of will and habit of procrastination which were always ready to disable him . |
| 4 | This , however , was impossible so long as descent was reckoned according to mother right . |
| 5 | This was impossible , Engels tells us , so long as descent was reckoned in the female line , because he believed inheritance and group membership always went hand in hand . |
| 6 | None was admitted so long as Coleman was alive . |
| 7 | So long as radicals were on the rampage , staying in the centre meant leaning ever farther towards liberal reform . |
| 8 | In fact Mr Hingston found a slightly unusual account in that it had instant access so long as withdrawals were made by post . |
| 9 | But this was impossible , so long as fees were based on age rather than grade . |
| 10 | The man spun round so swiftly that George was taken aback and tripped , falling onto the soft mud . |
| 11 | LABOUR 'S health spokesman , Mr Robin Cook , claimed during health questions that eye tests were dropping so steeply since charges were imposed earlier this year that they were heading for a fall of three million , but health minister Mrs Virginia Bottomley said the Government had not yet reviewed the effect of charges . |
| 12 | In fact time went so quickly that Shelley was surprised when the crowded room fell silent , and the sound of the church clock in the square drifted through the little café . |
| 13 | ‘ He was a soldier , you know , ’ she had said , podding peas so rapidly that Sally-Anne was full of awe for such expertise , pea-podding being difficult , she had discovered . |
| 14 | His condition deteriorated so rapidly that Brian was unable to reach his father 's bedside in New York before he died . |
| 15 | She walked from the herb garden so rapidly that Meryl was unable to utter another word . |
| 16 | ‘ I wonder , ’ said Ian and laughed so genuinely that Julia was reassured . |
| 17 | Only in small things so far but Dexter was sure , thinking back to the taut image of the man sitting on his sofa the previous night , that he was lying about bigger things as well . |
| 18 | Eventually they ran so far that mines were sited as much as 55m/60yds behind the first German line ; the longest , at Kruisstraat , ran for some 658m/720yds . |
| 19 | By March this year the price of sorghum , wheat and maize in local markets had been depressed so far that farmers were complaining . |
| 20 | The churchyard had emptied , the wedding-carriages had rolled away , taking their fragile gaiety with them to another world so far as Cara was concerned . |
| 21 | Whatever the rights and wrongs of the matter , the authorities required from me a birth certificate from Štanjel , a certificate of Italian citizenship , a certificate from a bishop declaring that I was stato libero so far as marriage was concerned , and goodness knows what else . |
| 22 | It was easy , however , to discount this evidence at a time when opinion polls were in their infancy , at least so far as credibility was concerned , and when it was universally thought that support would return to Churchill as soon as his formidable oratorical skills were thrown in on one side of the party contest . |
| 23 | My objections were originally on the grounds of freedom , rather than efficiency , although in the event , so far as Britain was concerned , socialism led more to stagnation than to tyranny . |
| 24 | Later he moved over and took his seat in Parliament , where he was able to exploit even grander notions , that public transport be nationalized and another Bill was placed before Parliament , with this in mind , at least in so far as London was concerned . |
| 25 | Treasury should be followed , but they may have taken that view precisely because , so far as B was concerned , it was a case of questions being put to a person who had been charged . |
| 26 | I slip into the pitfall of subjectivity with trepidation , but observing my fellow patients , I seemed to discern a distinct pattern so far as stress was concerned . |
| 27 | By December 1940 the news from the African front was very bad so far as Italy was concerned . |
| 28 | Some of the judges thought that one effect of rule 3(7) was to abolish the distinction , so far as standing was concerned , between mandamus on the one hand , and certiorari and prohibition on the other ; but at least two of their Lordships were less certain on this point . |
| 29 | However , the most striking feature of the reforms resulting from the Maud Report , so far as England was concerned , was the institution of ‘ metropolitan counties ’ in the most heavily urbanised areas of that country . |
| 30 | He seems to have recognized — at least he did not dissent from the view — that so far as England was concerned , the choice lay with the king . |