Example sentences of "so [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 It is bad enough to fail one 's driving test once ; to do so for a second time reinforces the sense of hopelessness in the learner 's mind — he now has twice as many failures to build upon — so that he uses his ability to visualize in an even more negative fashion .
2 They must also continue to be so for a reasonable time after delivery .
3 In the bite-shaped hollow , a small mound of viscous lava was growing and continued to do so for a long time afterwards .
4 Rigid solids are much harder to get hold of in tension and so for a long time such testing as was done was confined to compression and bending .
5 He coveted the throne and had done so for a long time .
6 Social anthropologists can and do study members of their own society and they have been doing so for a long time , though mostly they do not do it very well .
7 By that time , the feeder pipe of magma will have become fairly well insulated from the sea , so for the first time the cherry red glow of liquid lava will be seen , and small lava flows will emerge , cementing the island together .
8 There are many who have already started to vote , or will be doing so for the first time soon , with no first-hand experience of what Labour governments were like .
9 We 're in the happy position of not needing any more money , so for the first time the bosses are n't in it for the profit .
10 After an hour of this , the pike left it alone and when it had done so for the fifth time , El-ahrairah swam across himself and went home .
11 One of the buildings totally flattened was the new home of the deaf in the town , so for the second time within the space of one year , the deaf in Exeter had to find new club premises .
12 I shall do so for the last time .
13 But so about the same time as the mill was heightened , I think that th land was drained .
14 Women are so utterly used to working with their own bodies : we are trained to do so from the first time we wear pink-for-a-girl , and a concentration upon the significations of our physicality is encouraged to a far greater extent than is the case with boys and men .
15 If you are scoring the tests yourself , rather than getting the computer to do it for you , then always do so at the same time of day — otherwise there would be variability due to time-of-day effects upon your scoring ability .
16 Just over half of those who retired prematurely did so at the same time as their redundancy .
17 As these opportunities appeared , so at the same time the lines of religious party and sect hardened .
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