Example sentences of "so [adv] [subord] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 It matters not that those others sought , however strongly , to persuade the patient to refuse , so long as in the end the refusal represented the patient 's independent decision .
2 If Norman Lamont keeps the job of Chancellor ( and he might do so only because of the shortlist of alternative candidates is embarrassingly short ) he may decide to delay the next cut in interest rates for long enough to convince the markets that he is serious about wanting to move sterling into narrow bands in the European exchange rate mechanism at its middle rate of Dm2.95 .
3 This in fact became so only because of the policies Wilson adopted in the way of providing arms to the other side , for which there was insufficient compensation from the rather half-hearted support given by the Soviets and by a few other countries to the Biafrans .
4 Sexism rarely manifests itself so grotesquely as in the cohabitation rule , and hostility to it among feminists is virtually unanimous .
5 Pakistan were 31 without loss by the close , Ramiz Raja ( 20 ) having spent little time on the field so far because of a stomach upset , and that evening Waqar Younis , asked what was the secret behind his late swing , replied , with a grin : ‘ I 'm not telling you that ! ’
6 These aspects of political choice are still important but less so now than in the past .
7 As so often when in the company of women , Matthew felt a little superfluous .
8 Blood may have continued to ooze for some time after death , though less so here than from a dependent part .
9 Anna had found a place in all their hearts , but nowhere so strongly as in the heart of this young boy .
10 Here too , though not so strongly as in the Hestia , I seem to glimpse a masterpiece behind the marble .
11 That has now changed Eastern arts no longer support the gallery now one obvious reason for that is the gallery started so well because of the enthusiasm from a number of professional people who came along and gave their advice and much of their time and such a body of people has not been called upon for a number of years now and once again a request to discuss this with Mr was refused .
12 Admission to a partnership is no longer looked upon so frequently as in the past as a job for life either by the individual solicitor whose loyalty to the firm may well be strained by the availability elsewhere of fresh challenges for greater rewards or by the firm which will be reluctant to tolerate any falling off in the performance of its partners which may affect overall profit levels .
13 you know and that 's right because it 's special and I , I really think that you know the U K and perhaps we can world some countries like Sweden and so on because of the high taxation have been able to keep their
14 No such obligation would in my view ordinarily arise where the third party comes into possession of information which , although once confidential , has ceased to be so otherwise than through the agency of the third party .
15 It is moreover mistaken to view the twentieth century cases which limited natural justice through manipulation of the administrative-judicial dichotomy as doing so primarily because of a feeling that those categorised as administrative would be unsuited to adjudicative procedures .
16 An overwhelming majority of those who still baulked at actual sacking favoured return to uniform , with the view that ‘ CID officers who are lazy and incompetent were so primarily because of the absence of the eventual sanction of removal from specialist duty . ’
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