Example sentences of "so [adv] [subord] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Internal security police still dog real or imagined opponents , though not so blatantly as last year . |
| 2 | Calls ‘ teu ’ , ‘ teeoo ’ , ‘ chik ’ , etc. not so loud as other shanks , also a liquid twittering trill . |
| 3 | The important question , though , is not so much whether such features are or are not objectively present , but what significance and function one should assign to them if they are . |
| 4 | It is not so long till some bushes are there . |
| 5 | He 's reduced the amount of water in his lavatory system and does n't let the tap run for so long when developing photographs in his darkroom at home . |
| 6 | So long as international affairs were left to the uncontrolled interplay of nation states , mutual suspicion would generate arms races which , in turn , would generate wars . |
| 7 | Au these possibilities are recognized in EC competition policy , and are given exemption from Article 85 so long as certain safeguards are in place . |
| 8 | And so long as all citizens stand a good chance of being among the majority on at least some of the major and significant issues , most if not all will be content to accept the majority principle . |
| 9 | Incorporated practices are already permitted ( subject to local law requirements ) if their business is carried on only wholly outside England and Wales so long as all directors and shareholders are properly qualified lawyers ( ie barristers or solicitors or locally qualified advocates etc ) and the practice complies with the Overseas Practice Rules ( see above ) . |
| 10 | Citizens of the United Kingdom do , however , have an individual right of access to the European enforcement agencies whether Her Majesty 's government likes it or not , so long that is , and only so long as that government continues to accede to the Convention and the jurisdiction of the machinery which it establishes . |
| 11 | I now wanted desperately to belong to the Christian church in general ( which to me , from my Free Church background , was what baptism implied ) while not able to belong specifically to the Anglican Church ( which was what confirmation implied ) so long as that church discriminated against women . |
| 12 | ( a ) Parties By RSC Ord 81 , r1 actions may be brought by and against partners in the name of their firm so long as that firm ( whether plaintiff or defendant ) carries on its business within the jurisdiction of the High Court . |
| 13 | So long as that situation continues , the British meat and livestock industry will be placed at a severe competitive disadvantage . |
| 14 | The defence is called " fair comment " — a misnomer , because it in fact defends unfair comment , so long as that comment is honest : " Every latitude must be given to opinion and to prejudice , and then an ordinary set of men with ordinary judgment must say [ not whether they agree with it , but ] whether any fair man would have made such a comment … |
| 15 | This is fine so long as that food is readily available , but it means that the birds are rather vulnerable should there be any changes in circumstances . |
| 16 | Its distribution in space becomes more and more contorted by the velocity fluctuations , but so long as molecular diffusion plays no role , the marked fluid is always just the same fluid . |
| 17 | So long as criminological theory drew from ahistorical empirical data from the United States and Europe it was possible to construct theories relatively consistent with the available evidence . |
| 18 | So long as political elites are capable of providing policy leadership , the roles and behaviour of public agency administrators are simple . |
| 19 | Indeed , so long as total pleasure just outweighs total pain an ever increasing population is likely to be a more effective way of increasing happiness than making life better for each individual . |
| 20 | So long as other leaders do not follow Dubček 's example , Moscow can be confident of dealing with known quantities in its client states and of possessing means to manipulate factional rivalries to its own advantage . |
| 21 | So long as two key sequences do not produce overlapping remainders this can achieve results considerably better than true randomization . |
| 22 | So long as such men as Willaert , Verdelot , and Arcadelt held posts in Venice , Florence , and Rome that is , until the mid-century or after Italian music can not be said to have emancipated itself from northern tutelage . |
| 23 | ( e ) Staff Two particular matters , in the nature of carrot and stick , may conveniently be mentioned here as being important for the partners to determine as a matter of firm policy : ( 1 ) r7 of the Solicitors ' Practice Rules 1990 permits solicitors to share their profits with their bona fide employees so long as such arrangements do not conceal an effective partnership . |
| 24 | 7.6.4 The Landlord shall not be liable to rebuild or reinstate the Premises or the Retained Parts if and for so long as such rebuilding or reinstating is prevented by Supervening Events |
| 25 | So long as religious music and sophisticated secular music shared the common techniques of imitative polyphony they naturally preserved a relationship the closeness of which is demonstrated by the numerous paraphrase Masses based on madrigals or chansons . |
| 26 | That prospect is anyway slight so long as Soviet-American cosiness continues and Iraq 's war machine remains broken . |
| 27 | Socialist proponents of the use of markets do not suggest that markets can simply be retained , so long as private ownership of the means of production is abolished . |
| 28 | From as early as 1708 most Tories were pushing for peace , so long as suitable terms could be reached with France . |
| 29 | So long as full employment was sustained by government policy , wage inflation was a natural consequence . |
| 30 | So long as this error can be minimised , a strong case exists for adopting a survey method in the UK . |