Example sentences of "so [adv] [subord] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was saying so forcibly when the telephone interrupted her . |
| 2 | They did so mostly because the transactions depended on the new debt burden being temporary while bits of a firm were sold , but the burden turned out to be lasting . |
| 3 | Few of these , from the vantage point of 1990 , flourished as corporations so successfully as the BBC , which gained a reputation as one of the great creations of social and cultural policy in the twentieth century . |
| 4 | Express mention of the beneficial owner covenants will imply on the part of the assignor that the terms of the lease with regard to maintenance , decoration and repair have been complied with ; this may not be so especially if the husband has been absent from the property for some time ( see generally Butler v Mountview Estates [ 1951 ] 2 KB 563 ) . |
| 5 | So obviously when the war finished there was tremendous demand . |
| 6 | So obviously if a cook goes , a cook has to be replaced , if a care assistant goes , a care assistant has to be replaced , as long as the population is there . |
| 7 | It ca n't go on for ever because characters such as the Fat Slags ( right ) can only go on so long before the joke starts to wear thin . |
| 8 | ‘ I ca n't remember what it 's like to be drunk , ’ said O'Toole some years after taking the pledge , ‘ it 's so long since a drink passed my lips . |
| 9 | When on 5 September the Lords Lieutenant of the four most northerly counties were ordered to make their respective militias ready for immediate service , it emerged that neither Northumberland nor Durham had been reimbursed by central government for the money they had previously spent in keeping the force mustered , while the authorities in Cumberland admitted candidly : ‘ T is so long since the militia was raised that we are apprehensive the arms are either lost or in bad order . ’ |
| 10 | They also extend the traditions of the area — the working over of old dumps by ‘ dressers ’ has taken place since ancient times and will , no doubt , continue to do so long after the mines close down . |
| 11 | Now , not so long after the rebels won , their war has been ignominiously recast in official Arab circles as a training school for religious terrorists . |
| 12 | And so long as a transaction falls within the scope of an activity set out in the objects clause ( ’ manufacturing ’ , ‘ property development ’ , and so on ) it will be authorised . |
| 13 | Lear is now experiencing the truth of La Rochefoucauld 's maxim that ‘ So long as a man is still in a position to help others he will rarely encounter ingratitude . ’ |
| 14 | Those days have gone only so long as a Government are in power who are determined to continue a regime of common sense and reasonable and balanced industrial relations . |
| 15 | The justification supposes that so long as a person is possessed of a right , that right may be exercised regardless of the consequences for others . |
| 16 | So long as a majority of Northern Ireland voters prefer to remain with the United Kingdom , we must concentrate our energies on protection for those on whom the terrorists wage war . |
| 17 | So long as a judge keeps silent his reputation for wisdom and impartiality remains unassailable : but every utterance which he makes in public , except in the course of the actual performance of his judicial duties , must necessarily bring him within the focus of criticism . |
| 18 | So long as a head of state — and thus his circle of patronage — can change quite unexpectedly , multi-country regional groupings will have to overcome major political as well as economic problems . |
| 19 | So long as a fissure is known to exist between the Prime Minister and the Chancellor about the ERM , the task of convincing the financial markets that policy is in safe hands will be made infinitely more difficult . |
| 20 | So long as a group formation persists , or so far as it extends , individuals in the group behave as though they were uniform , tolerate peculiarities of its members , equate themselves with them , and have no feeling of aversion towards them . |
| 21 | The sickle lasted for so long as a harvesting tool for this very reason : it was still used in preference to the swap-hook and scythe in some areas because its use , although slower , conserved the grain . |
| 22 | Perhaps it may now be accepted that so long as a historian is acting as a historian , his criteria must arise from his own study and must not be imported from some other autonomous field . |
| 23 | Therefore , only so long as a woman is in labour shall he give up Israel ; and then those that survive of his race shall rejoin their brethren . |
| 24 | So long as a tiger stands still or moves slowly , its stripes make it practically invisible in the jungle or among reeds . |
| 25 | Articles 85 and 86 of Table A ( prescribed pursuant to the Companies Act 1985 ) provide that so long as a director has disclosed his interest to the company , he may be a party to or interested in any transaction , and shall not by reason of his office be accountable to the company for any benefit he receives from such a transaction . |
| 26 | But so long as no resources used in ‘ selling ’ or in producing are owned monopolistically , we are forced to conclude that this activity is essentially competitive and can not result in any kind of monopolistic control over production or any impairment of the competitive process . |
| 27 | Just so long as no emergency came up … |
| 28 | The company may suffer because , as we have seen , unless such rights have been most carefully drafted , they will not come into operation so long as no action regarding registration is taken by the personal representative and because , if the company had only two members and directors , the death of one may mean that no quorate meetings can be held , and the company may face a petition to wind it up . |
| 29 | So long as no food 's going in , our soldiers do n't mind allowing an extra mouth or two into the city . |
| 30 | So long as an apparatchik continued to be invited to join the Ceauşescus at play , even the ceaseless rotation of offices could not disguise his continuing status as one of the leaders . |