Example sentences of "the [noun pl] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er generally I 'm sort of very impressed with the standard of work on the essays so okay . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ The investigations so far have shown no evidence of such an elaborate organization , ’ Kopyion seemed to answer before he 'd finished . |
| 4 | The force estimates that £650,000 has been spent on the investigations so far . |
| 5 | This interpretation , which broadly parallels Bernard Cohn 's argument that the Indian judicial system was manipulated because of culture conflict between British and Indian legal norms , does not explain why Sri Lankans used the courts so often . |
| 6 | A second cemetery has been identified at Borstal , about a mile south-west of the town near the river bank ; it appears to have contained mainly inhumations , and the coins so far recovered would indicate a third- and fourth-century use . |
| 7 | Had I known I was trespassing on his domain I would never have entered the woods so lightly . |
| 8 | In both the cases so far considered in this Chapter , the customer took the goods under an agreement between himself and the dealer . |
| 9 | The cases so far decided do not exhaust the possible factual permutations which give the courts such difficulty in distinguishing between leases and licences . |
| 10 | Genetic studies have established that the mutations so far characterized belong to probably four different complementation groups and that some of them are recessive ( 8–15 ) . |
| 11 | But experience shows that language — and , particularly , language adopted or concurred in under the pressure of a tight Parliamentary timetable — is not always a reliable vehicle for the complete or accurate translation of legislative intention ; and I have been persuaded , for the reasons so cogently deployed in the speech of my noble and learned friend , that the circumstances of this case demonstrate that there is both the room and the necessity for a limited relaxation of the previously well-settled rule which excludes reference to Parliamentary history as an aid to statutory construction . |
| 12 | ( ‘ They 've kicked us in the teeth so often ’ , ‘ They tried to write us off like they did Kenya ; but we would n't stand for it . ’ ) |
| 13 | It is a stout book , giving the rules of the Association , the officers at all the meetings so far , and all the life and annual subscribers , with addresses — making it a kind of ‘ Who 's Who ’ . |
| 14 | In New York , the visitor is drawn time and time again to the Frick Collection , where the opulent yet relaxed setting shows off the objects so much more sympathetically than the Disneyland-style ‘ period rooms ’ across the other side of Fifth Avenue . |
| 15 | Yusuf 's forces returned in strength and began to win back many of the states so recently conquered by Alfonso and by El Cid in their separate campaigns . |
| 16 | Still , now the lighter evenings were coming on they would n't depend on the pictures so much ; there would be walks in the park , kissing on the benches in the shadows , lying on the warm , grassy banks … |
| 17 | ‘ What I liked in the books was the free open-air life , the spice of illegality and daring , roguish characters — the opportunities so far exceeding my own , the gun , the great pond , the country home , the apparently endless leisure — the glorious moments that one could always recapture by opening the Poacher — and the tinge of sadness here and there as in the picture of the old moucher perishing in his sleep by the lime kiln , and the heron flying over in the morning indifferent . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ None of the calls have hit me between the eyes so far as the vital piece of information , but I 'm still hopeful that what we need may be in there , ’ he said . |
| 19 | What are the solutions so far ? |
| 20 | In Germany Romanesque architecture had been so successfully adopted , and suited the needs and character of the peoples so well , there was reluctance to change it . |
| 21 | Although a significant feature of the 1990 accounts was the substantial fall in the value of investments there had been a significant recovery of the losses so far in 1991 : |
| 22 | About 300 metres of each , I 've torn to make the covers so far but I 'm still doing it because each one has to be the right size and colour-coded by room . |
| 23 | Intense competition from the Far East began to conjure up unheard-of sums for Imperial porcelains , jades , lacquers and bronzes ; serious but collectable subjects which had passed through the books so calmly before 1960 now went out of reach . |
| 24 | The intention is thus to narrow the matters in dispute between the parties so far as possible and , in theory at least , to give both parties advance notice of what the other case is . |
| 25 | On March 26 , 1952 , they signed the agreement now sued upon which has three clauses : ‘ ( 1 ) the husband will pay to the wife for her support and maintenance a weekly sum of One Pound Ten Shillings to be paid every four weeks during the joint lives of the parties so long as the wife shall lead a chaste life the first payment hereunder to be made on the Fifteenth day of April 1952. ( 2 ) The wife will out of the said weekly sum or otherwise support and maintain herself and will indemnify the husband against all debts to be incurred by her and will not in any way at any time hereafter pledge the husband 's credit . |
| 26 | They had used the words so freely in Seville and look what had happened . |
| 27 | Izzie breathed the words so softly into Gabriel 's ear that it was as if he had thought them himself . |
| 28 | They have played the roles so often that the women must be part of their lives . |
| 29 | ‘ Have n't the Jews so often been the victims down the years of people who were looking for demons to bait ? ’ he said . |
| 30 | ‘ We 're Quakers , you know , ’ one told me , and , ‘ Oh , we do find the antics of the natives so terribly funny ! ’ |