Example sentences of "so [adv] [conj] [noun] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Patten said that he had not turned against the idea of any and all new towns : ‘ So long as the location is right and so long as people can have real confidence that a decision in favour of a new settlement will relieve development pressures elsewhere , then new villages and new settlements could have a part to play in increasing the acceptability of new housing decisions . ’ |
| 2 | So long as people can walk out of a room and say they have decided to leave on their terms , they retain their dignity . |
| 3 | So long as people can milk the benefits of contracting out , but still return when the gains run out , the Government is in a heads they win , tails we lose situation . |
| 4 | He ate so swiftly that Libby could n't take her eyes off him ; she remembered all they were told about behaving properly and eating slowly . |
| 5 | Molly Pearce , the helpful spinster with her eye on Maurice ; she fitted so exactly that Wycliffe could scarcely believe his luck . |
| 6 | ‘ Everything collapsed so quickly but things can change for the better in just as short a space a time . |
| 7 | He motioned an unwilling Adjutant and Sergeant out ahead of him and stood by the open door , frowning so deeply that Clarissa would have followed if Charity had n't risked leaving her defences and staked all on a final devastating attack . |
| 8 | Similarly , if the gravitational mass of the proton were significantly different , one would not have had stars in which these nucleides could have been built up , and if the initial expansion of the universe had been slightly smaller or slightly greater , the universe would either have collapsed before such stars could have evolved or would have expanded so rapidly that stars would never have been formed by gravitational condensation . |
| 9 | ‘ Hallo ? ’ he repeated , rather louder than necessary and so carefully that Hugh could hear the vowels tinkling into place . |
| 10 | The order was not one for the recovery or preservation of trust property but called for information and for copies of the defendants ' documents which , so far as compliance might incriminate them , the defendants were entitled to disregard . |
| 11 | The publication of a statement of compliance with the code , reviewed by the auditors so far as compliance can be objectively verified , is to be made a listing requirement by the Stock Exchange . |
| 12 | Septimus Coffin could call on forty years of experience , and in so far as Latin could be made entertaining , he made it so . |
| 13 | She was next in line to Lily , five years older than the girl who had come to Riverstown and had the whole world in her pocket , so far as Bernadette could see . |
| 14 | It looked like some sort of play he was writing , so far as Bob could see . |
| 15 | But the baby , so far as Wendy could see , was in good order , firm of limb , bright of eye , smooth of skin and , once released from its wrapping , extremely lively . |
| 16 | Well laid out , so far as Newman could see while she made the tea . |
| 17 | In so far as literature would inevitably play a substantial part in any such course , the students reading it would learn the appropriate cultural codes rather than being expected to know them already . |
| 18 | Parliamentary sovereignty is still intact in so far as Parliament can still repeal the act committing us to entry . |
| 19 | ‘ The Mamur Zapt ? ’ said Suleiman , surprised but , so far as Owen could tell , not disconcerted . |
| 20 | They confer a right to the ‘ equity ’ in the company and , in so far as members can be said to own the company , the ordinary shareholders are its proprietors , It is they who bear the lion 's share of the risk and they who in good years take the lion 's share of the profits ( after the directors and managers have been remunerated ) . |
| 21 | where a party sustains a loss by reason of a breach of contract , he is , so far as money can do it , to be placed in the same situation with respect to damages , as if the contract had been performed . |
| 22 | … the common law says that the damages due either for breach of contract or for tort are damages which , so far as money can compensate will give the injured party reparation for the wrongful act ( Admiralty Commissioners v SS Susquehanna [ 1926 ] AC 655 at p661 ) . |
| 23 | So far as Bragg could see , the man had clearly been killed by a crushing blow to the head . |
| 24 | Besides , if Maidstone could predict so accurately when Elsie would appear then it would be a simple matter to find her again — perhaps at the same time tomorrow . |
| 25 | Alright , and will give , give rise to a delayed response , so even though prices may rise , farmers ' output response wo n't be immediate , right , not only because of the growing season that 's involved , but due , but due to psychological resistance , erm , to the adoption of that technology , and also it may take time to acquire the necessary skills to implement that technology . |
| 26 | Waiters ran around from table to table , shouting to each other and to the customers , so fast that Shelley could n't catch what was going on . |
| 27 | These fly-by-night ‘ bosses ’ changed so frequently that workers would lose track of who was actually employing them . |
| 28 | Even grass grows so thinly that cattle ca n't feed properly . |
| 29 | She groaned and turned over , hoping she would fall asleep again , but her brain insisted on relaying pictures of her twin , so vividly that Dana could have been in the same room . |
| 30 | He had changed the subjet so adroitly that Juliet could only stare at him . |