Example sentences of "so for [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is bad enough to fail one 's driving test once ; to do so for a second time reinforces the sense of hopelessness in the learner 's mind — he now has twice as many failures to build upon — so that he uses his ability to visualize in an even more negative fashion . |
| 2 | They must also continue to be so for a reasonable time after delivery . |
| 3 | In the bite-shaped hollow , a small mound of viscous lava was growing and continued to do so for a long time afterwards . |
| 4 | Rigid solids are much harder to get hold of in tension and so for a long time such testing as was done was confined to compression and bending . |
| 5 | He coveted the throne and had done so for a long time . |
| 6 | Social anthropologists can and do study members of their own society and they have been doing so for a long time , though mostly they do not do it very well . |
| 7 | By that time , the feeder pipe of magma will have become fairly well insulated from the sea , so for the first time the cherry red glow of liquid lava will be seen , and small lava flows will emerge , cementing the island together . |
| 8 | There are many who have already started to vote , or will be doing so for the first time soon , with no first-hand experience of what Labour governments were like . |
| 9 | We 're in the happy position of not needing any more money , so for the first time the bosses are n't in it for the profit . |
| 10 | After an hour of this , the pike left it alone and when it had done so for the fifth time , El-ahrairah swam across himself and went home . |
| 11 | One of the buildings totally flattened was the new home of the deaf in the town , so for the second time within the space of one year , the deaf in Exeter had to find new club premises . |
| 12 | I shall do so for the last time . |