Example sentences of "so [adv] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 So perhaps to imagine the postman 's work in isolation is to imagine him walking down a street posting letters , or at least sealed envelopes , but imagining the houses as mere facades , with no rooms or people behind .
2 At times , such as during the long wars with France from 1793 to 1815 , they seem to have done so especially to fill the labour gap created by absent men .
3 No longer so just to get a feel f
4 The Metropolitan Borough of Wigan has been sufficiently impressed with the results so far to finance the printing of enough copies for the first year pupils of three comprehensive schools beginning in September 1985 .
5 Claire is one of three patients so far to undergo the procedure under the supervision of consultant orthopaedic surgeon Richard Montgomery .
6 She is one of three patients so far to undergo the procedure at the hospital , under the supervision of consultant orthopaedic surgeon , Mr Richard Montgomery .
7 ‘ I 've been involved in a few preliminary meetings so far to pick a training squad , and I 've also got involved in the training sessions themselves .
8 In short , it is that it offers a way of by-passing ‘ the awkward corner ’ , Nearly twenty years ago Professor Joan Robinson observed that the predictable consequences of the attainment of near-full employment must , if institutions and attitudes did not accommodate themselves to the new circumstances , be so far to strengthen the power of the trade unions as to prompt a vicious spiral of wages and prices ; and that it would become chronic .
9 Trying to be positive about her inability so far to have a child , Wendy says she tells herself that the whole experience has made her a stronger person .
10 Statutory services have , however , done little so far to encourage the development of such services , even though they can bring very significant emotional benefits to individuals , particularly those living alone or who are estranged from their families .
11 On the eve of the Lord 's Test , though , he was relaxing , hoping son Shoaib would be recalled before he returned to Lahore , pausing every so often to throw a plastic ball at his bat-wielding , knee-high grandson .
12 And what on earth was she herself playing at , crossing the urban wastes so regularly to teach a bunch of delinquent girls , a bunch of criminals , for £15.60 a night ?
13 She says everyone 's done so well to raise a quarter of a million pounds — we 're just wondering what we 're going to do next !
14 You can freeze a frame , rewind , replay and so on to reinforce a point .
15 Yet it is on that flood and the damage to swimming pools and jacuzzis caused by it that the NRA relies so heavily to demonstrate the existence of a so-called Maidenhead factor .
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