Example sentences of "the [noun] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fleury , of course , had no business being there at all , but Harry had sent him to the Residency with a message and while passing by he had found the defence so desperately hard pressed that he had forgotten all about Harry . |
| 2 | Gerry Grimstone , a director of Schroders , the Government 's merchant bank for the water flotations , claimed that the response so far had been extremely encouraging , with interest spread broadly across the country and ‘ no signs of an investor strike ’ in any of the regions . |
| 3 | However we have been delighted by the response so far . |
| 4 | The response so far has been promising . |
| 5 | ORGANISERS of an appeal to collect food and medicine for deprived Russian children are delighted at the response so far . |
| 6 | –here property has been settled on terms which provide for one or more beneficiaries to become entitled to an interest in possession in it on or before a specified age which does not exceed twenty-five but meantime no such interest in possession subsists and the income so far as not applied for maintenance education or benefit of any beneficiary is to be accumulated , neither a payment made out of the property nor the arising to a beneficiary of an interest in possession in it is to be treated as a chargeable transfer . |
| 7 | And er generally I 'm sort of very impressed with the standard of work on the essays so okay . |
| 8 | Much of the funding so far has come from the US , through the Environmental Protection Agency , the Agency for International Development , and the US World Wide Fund for Nature 's conservation fund . |
| 9 | Criticism has come mainly from local authorities , which reckon that the funding so far promised falls far short of that required . |
| 10 | But at last I learned to know what a lie was : to induce my mother to stop beating me I would lie — I would say , yes , I had lied and was sorry , and then she would whip me for having withheld the admission so long . |
| 11 | But I am convinced and I 'm going to tell the board so today . |
| 12 | While this issue has not been expressly considered , it seems fair to assume that rather than incur the risks inherent in giving the board so wide a discretion , and relying on the usually well-founded assumption that the shareholders ' dominant purpose is to increase their individual wealth , the court , at the price of some distortion , would define the interests of the members exclusively in terms of their personal financial well-being . |
| 13 | So I I I 've said to Margaret , he 's a , I think he must doing something with the extractor fan because he 's cut a hole in the er barge pole so , on the board so obviously |
| 14 | He is allowed to pick his successor on the board so long as the person is ‘ reasonably acceptable ’ to the other directors . |
| 15 | He 's allows to pick his successor on the board so long as the person is ‘ reasonably acceptable ’ to the other directors . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's done the trick so far . |
| 17 | There is still some way to go before we have an agreement on economic and monetary union , but the discussions so far have shown that it is possible to thrash out a sensible position in negotiations . |
| 18 | Semantic analysis may also be able to provide some feedback mechanism concerning the domain of the sentence so far . |
| 19 | If you are able to say , ‘ I do n't know , ’ then you will be able to learn the Technique so much the quicker . |
| 20 | ‘ The investigations so far have shown no evidence of such an elaborate organization , ’ Kopyion seemed to answer before he 'd finished . |
| 21 | The force estimates that £650,000 has been spent on the investigations so far . |
| 22 | He had partly explained why he needed her help , how it involved complying with the terms of his uncle 's will , although he had n't admitted yet why he needed the money so desperately . |
| 23 | Clearly , this must be the case so long as it remains the only easily available platform for interactive multimedia . |
| 24 | This remains very largely the case so far as written questions are concerned . |
| 25 | … no inconsiderable sacrifice to put in the time and effort that this sort of work requires , particularly when , as I fear has been the case so far , it has to be pursued at rather a breakneck speed . |
| 26 | ‘ What is your view of the case so far ? ’ |
| 27 | This has not been the case so far this year with several results ’ , one of which is that ’ Government credibility has been severely tarnished , particularly with regard to perceived dedication to improved training . ’ |
| 28 | But the family has no regrets about taking the case so far . |
| 29 | One of the major tenets of the mental models theory of text comprehension is that the model of the text so far provides ( part of ) the context for understanding the current sentence . |
| 30 | Over the past few years we have been working on such an account , and in this paper we focus on the implications of this account for a central tenet of the mental models approach : that the mental model of the text so far provides ( part of the context for the interpretation of the current sentence or clause . |