Example sentences of "so [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This convention works so powerfully precisely because , in life , it is not like that . |
| 2 | If it does n't mean so much today as it did , it 's because rock is n't as strong as it was , it does n't matter so much anymore . ’ |
| 3 | Not so much now 'cos they get a bit scared — but used to quite a bit . |
| 4 | I love dressmaking but ca n't do so much now as my hands are stiff with arthritis . |
| 5 | These categories reveal an intricate relationship between social rank and economic standing , so much so as to invite the conclusion that by this date , if not much earlier , it had come to be acknowledged that status was a function of source and level of income , subject to the proviso that land took precedence over personal property . |
| 6 | His theory required him to specify a reason why the human branch of the evolutionary tree had advanced so much further than those which led to the living apes . |
| 7 | West Indian cricket has been strong for so long principally because it is looked upon almost as a religion in the Caribbean . |
| 8 | According to Rupert Sutcliffe , the most senior member of the Department , and its most pertinacious gossip , there was a time not so long ago when Philip Swallow was for ever swanning around the globe on some conference jaunt or other . |
| 9 | According to Mrs Whitehouse , there was a time not so long ago when the Church was , and was seen to be , the defender of both public and private morality . |
| 10 | Alec Smith told vividly of the change he has found — from the days not so long ago when he was a rebel against all organised society , and cherishing hate against certain specific people . |
| 11 | As clearly as she recalled that spring day so long ago when she had received the small wound . |
| 12 | And another instance of that was well this was not so long ago when we had a loan of a barge from just a mini landing craft sort of thing where the front of it folded down . |
| 13 | And eh that just stuck and the joins were alright It just took so long before as well did n't it . |
| 14 | So long therefore as the central country of the Bretton Woods system pursued responsible policies , fiscal deficits in a peripheral country such as the United Kingdom generated balance of payments problems for that country , and any government seriously committed to maintaining a fixed exchange rate on the US dollar found its freedom to run such deficits severely curtailed by the commitment . |
| 15 | It does so more thoroughly than was possible in Dr Reaney 's general exposition . |
| 16 | For professional development teachers the result was that they had only been able to learn through personal experience and had thus done so more slowly than was necessary : |
| 17 | It was able to do so more easily when large-scale music publication , including a high proportion of Italian music , spread from Italy to France ( with Pierre Attaingnant in Paris from 1528 and Jacques Moderne at Lyons four years later ) , Germany ( with Georg Rhaw at Wittenberg from 1538 and Montanus ( Berg ) and Neuber at Nuremberg from 1542 ) , and the Netherlands ( with Tylman Susato at Antwerp from 1543 and Pierre Phalese at Louvain in 1545 ) . |
| 18 | Indeed , they can do so more accurately than traditional methods . |
| 19 | I placed all my washing materials , towels , razor and so forth exactly where they should be , wiped a little steam off the mirror on my bathroom cabinet , and returned to my room . |
| 20 | It is his 81st , is dedicated to the pit communities for which he still cares so deeply even though the pits have all but vanished , and costs £1 for a miner 's sideways look at life which is probably no more . |
| 21 | They do so automatically even if raised on a bottle , by humans . |
| 22 | The origin of Blakeney Point is open to discussion : it has been suggested that the western end may have been a feature comparable with Scolt Head Island and later joined to the mainland by a simple spit growing westwards from Weybourne : it may have developed entirely as a spit such as Orford Ness or Hurst Castle Spit , which will be described below ; or the whole feature may represent an offshore bar driven so far inshore as to become attached to the coast . |
| 23 | Above all , a pension seems so far away when you are in your twenties and thirties . |
| 24 | It looks as if the day may not be so far away when we can all do our shopping , banking and working from our homes . |
| 25 | But it 's strange to think that the day 's not so far away when players like Robert Cray , Bonnie Raitt and Jimmie Vaughan , for so long representatives of the new American blues generation , will themselves be looked on as the elders of the blues . |
| 26 | From the various addresses given on the trade cards of coffin-makers it appears that many were sited off the high streets , yet not so far away as to be inaccessible to their clients . |
| 27 | It is important to be clear then about our reasons for feeling that we had to explain why women have come so far rather than explaining why there had been so few gains . |
| 28 | In fact , some people 's remembering of the exact colours and their proportions might be so far out as to scramble the possible building of any picture . |
| 29 | Even drivers of average height will need the seat so far back as to make it impossible to see directly behind . |
| 30 | So far too as creditors were concerned , the daughter would be fair game until she had obtained a formal release from liability . |