Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sporting endeavours have been a major feature of the activities undertaken so far ( see Update ) . |
| 2 | The activities described so far have been concerned with periodically recurring factors relating to corporate planning and monitoring of results as part of functional management . |
| 3 | In addition to the contracts mentioned so far , the Regulations also apply to contracts made during an excursion organised by the trader away from his trade premises . |
| 4 | It does not lay an adequate foundation for a claim that , even if the solicitors did so advise , that was not advice which a competent solicitor could reasonably have given . |
| 5 | If the institutions remain so determinedly uninvolved , those who seek radical solutions will have to look elsewhere , possibly to an independent regulator who would appoint auditors and fix their remuneration . |
| 6 | We were pleased to see the Canadians do so well in the World Cup after they had beaten us over there ’ ! |
| 7 | The defenders fought so hard , ignoring the many wounds upon their bodies , that by the end of the attack their white Reikland uniforms were drenched in blood . |
| 8 | After a while the ducks got so confident that they 'd come right into our garden and eventually into the house itself . |
| 9 | This is because the claws have so many important functions in the life of a cat . |
| 10 | Why are the birds singing so strangely ? |
| 11 | It was so different — the silence was so serene — so tranquil — and the birds came so close — and never had they seen such magnificent trees . |
| 12 | The air 's so fresh , and the birds sing so beautifully . |
| 13 | No wonder the scribblers on the hustings have so much stale garbage blowing around their brains . |
| 14 | nQue Technologies Corporation , a small Silicon Valley start-up , has mapped out a wholly different approach to the Windows-on-Unix issue so wily and obvious it 's amazing it 's taken the industry this long to come up with it . |
| 15 | NQue Technologies Corp , a Santa Clara County start-up , has mapped out a wholly different approach to the Windows-on-Unix issue so wily and obvious it 's amazing it 's taken the industry this long to come up with it . |
| 16 | The reason the Russians have so many is that fresh plutonium slowly undergoes radioactive decay , making it unpredictable in warheads . |
| 17 | 1817 " The Meeting impressd , with the distress of the Tenantry of the Island from the reduced state of the Price of Black Cattle &c. ; conceive it proper and necessary to make application to Shawfield and his Trustees for a reduction of Rent while the times continue so oppressing , but with proper delicacy to this subject they decline making application at Present and till it is ascertained how cattle markets may go in June next … " |
| 18 | Ranged against the far more powerful pro-Israel lobby , the groups have so far had little impact on policy . |
| 19 | In the cases considered so far , this is so . |
| 20 | The hours passed so pleasantly here . |
| 21 | The TV afternoons and the hours went so slow until he came back and turned the lights on . |
| 22 | Or could you prove the rules of logic without using the rules to do so ? |
| 23 | The majority of prison letters that I receive have the ring of truth ; the reason being that it is not in human nature ( of which the law is profoundly ignorant ) for guilty men to go on proclaiming their innocence month after month , year after year , when they do not have the evidence , the impetus , or the skills to do so , at least with any show of conviction . |
| 24 | Moodily he put on the kettle for some more coffee , powdered this time , he could not rise to the skills performed so effortlessly by Sarah Fleming . |
| 25 | There is another strand to the Economic theory of regulation , which is that once the agency has an objective , those charged with carrying out the policies do so to the best of their ability . |
| 26 | The technologies considered so far have been those relating to large-scale carpentry and items worn or carried , especially brooches and weaponry . |
| 27 | They walk round from the school and they 've got a map of the places where the bombs dropped so |
| 28 | The fingers moved so fast that Dougal found it hard to follow what was happening . |
| 29 | Each of these industries on the continent of Europe is to a greater or lesser extent owned or controlled by the state , and when it suits the authorities to do so , is heavily subsidised . |
| 30 | Indeed the authorities became so concerned that in 1935 she became the first cartoon character to be censored . |