Example sentences of "so [adv] [subord] [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The independent ethic they had courted so successfully since their conception was beginning to fall hopelessly apart . |
| 2 | She moped so badly after your father died . ’ |
| 3 | Claudia did n't know Garry , or even his surname ; Dana had always had men in her life , but she had n't seemed serious about any of them , and so far Claudia had hoped in vain that she would find someone to love and to provide the anchor she 'd been missing so badly since their mother had died . |
| 4 | She was the Major 's gundog and had pined so badly when her master died , Blanche had considered putting her down . |
| 5 | ‘ Since you left the restaurant that night asking so pointedly when his war was going to begin . ’ |
| 6 | I do understand that the burden of an elderly , dependent relative , even of one so sprightly as your mother , can be great . |
| 7 | ‘ Do n't seem so long since his birthdee , do it ? ’ |
| 8 | One way and another , it appears that the search for a new chief executive for IBM Corp is not going too well as one after another , the most fancied candidates declare that they are non-runners — so long after their names were first widely canvassed in the press that they leave the strong impression that they have considered or been considered for the job , but after having looked into it , decided that they would n't touch it with a bargepole : latest to declare his belated non-candidacy is former Hewlett-Packard Co chief executive John Young , who says he is ‘ definitely not a candidate ’ — ‘ He 's enjoying retirement , ’ said a Hewlett spokeswoman ; all attention is now focussed on the thought-to-be front runners that have n't ruled themselves out — Paul Stern , recently retired chairman and tough manager of Northern Telecom Ltd , who could be planning to repeat his double act at that company with another former IBMer , Edward Lucente , who has also just resigned from Northern Telecom ; the other two whose odds have shortened are George Fisher , chairman and chief executive of Motorola Inc , Morton Myerson , chairman of Perot Systems Corp , and Louis Gerstner , head of RJR Nabisco Co ; industry sources told Reuter that the name of Michael Armstrong keeps coming up within IBM — but he quit only a year ago , and has just taken the top job at Hughes Aircraft Co . |
| 9 | The plain truth is that I once twisted my knee after falling down a ridiculously narrow flight of stairs at a crowded party in a terraced house in Highgate , and I found it so comforting and indeed so peculiarly elegant to lean on a good stout walking stick during the weeks that followed this mishap that I continued to do so long after my leg had returned to normal . |
| 10 | They acknowledge the low pay of the farm worker but , the argument runs , they can not be paid more so long as their returns to capital invested continue to fall behind the returns available to industrial employers . |
| 11 | Although the formula means that the higher the validity the greater the return , it also means that selection tests can be worth using even when their validity is low , so long as their cost is also low . |
| 12 | Beasant 's goalkeeping spared Chelsea another drubbing at Crystal Palace on Boxing Day and so long as their strikers remain on target they could get a decent result today . |
| 13 | But they have also beaten the Redskins 8–4 and 9–6 at Riverside and Chelmsford are the fancied side , so long as their imports play well and the youngsters give their all . |
| 14 | It would follow that journalists writing for American publications have considerably more latitude in criticising public figures so long as their articles are not reprinted in Britain . |
| 15 | Care must be taken to ensure that the new company , or its qualifying subsidiaries , carry on qualifying trades and , notably , film production companies and research and development companies qualify , so long as their activities are being carried on on a commercial basis with a view to profit . |
| 16 | This means that Snotlings can be very frustrating to fight , because no matter how many are slain they keep fighting so long as their neighbours hold steady . |
| 17 | Financial intermediaries , predominantly banks , are not particularly concerned about the effects of inflation on their balance sheets , so long as their loans and deposits are all made on a similar basis . |
| 18 | Moreover , we showed , in a small study , that non-conservers of length will say that a one-inch and a ten-inch stick are the same length so long as their tips are on a level . |
| 19 | So long as their beds are made , do n't you think ? |
| 20 | The whole lesson of the events of the past 20 years is that doctors can not be re-educated , so long as their training is drug-based their journals utterly dependent upon the revenue from the drug companies advertisements , and their leisure activities agreeably subsidised by the drug companies ' slush funds . |
| 21 | The population , though reduced to eating cats and dogs , fought back , however , so long as their ammunition lasted , with 16-pounder [ 7.3-kg ] and 24-pounder [ 11-kg ] cannon , continuous musket fire and frequent sorties and on 30 July an expedition led by General Kirke rammed the boom ; the following day , as the first stores were being unloaded , the siege was abandoned , having lasted 105 days . |
| 22 | ‘ The decision was to give them a lot of freedom , letting them take the pictures they liked so long as their interpretations were true to the general concept . |
| 23 | And further : We can , in summary , at the very least draw this conclusion : that it is , by reference to modern biological thought , a tenable view of society which — so long as its component classes are not exclusive — sees advantage to it in the variety of aptitudes and attitudes implied by class structure in a mixture of co-operation and competition between them . |
| 24 | But the widow of a vassal was commonly at the disposal of the vassal 's lord : so long as her consent was obtained ( by whatever means ) and so long as she was not disparaged , she could be married to whom the lord chose . |
| 25 | ‘ So long as your prick is n't made of wood as well as ! ’ she had said with a laugh to make him feel easy . |
| 26 | The minister could never say to the board , ‘ right , now you have a logical remit , go away and fulfil it and so long as your rate of return is what it ought to be , we will not interfere ’ ( SCNI 1968 : 431 , 434–6 ) . |
| 27 | So long as your people will take them food . |
| 28 | According to my religion , I could , so long as my wife grants her consent . |
| 29 | I could never have expressed that wish so long as my father was alive , for I had been trained to think that such sentiments would hurt him . |
| 30 | The essence of what Mr Hussain said was that following the marriage he would remain in England on a settled basis as a married man for just so long as his wife dictated . |