Example sentences of "so [adv] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was saying so forcibly when the telephone interrupted her . |
| 2 | They did so mostly because the transactions depended on the new debt burden being temporary while bits of a firm were sold , but the burden turned out to be lasting . |
| 3 | Few of these , from the vantage point of 1990 , flourished as corporations so successfully as the BBC , which gained a reputation as one of the great creations of social and cultural policy in the twentieth century . |
| 4 | I was probably still thinking about that as I got back to Armstrong in Soho Square , which is why I reacted so slowly when the white Ford Capri screeched alongside Armstrong 's parking place and nosed into the kerb so I could n't move him . |
| 5 | However it must be worth trying to do so especially if a senior employee has received independent legal advice before entering the agreement and has been specifically compensated ( as is common in the USA ) for accepting the restraint . |
| 6 | Express mention of the beneficial owner covenants will imply on the part of the assignor that the terms of the lease with regard to maintenance , decoration and repair have been complied with ; this may not be so especially if the husband has been absent from the property for some time ( see generally Butler v Mountview Estates [ 1951 ] 2 KB 563 ) . |
| 7 | So obviously when the war finished there was tremendous demand . |
| 8 | So obviously if a cook goes , a cook has to be replaced , if a care assistant goes , a care assistant has to be replaced , as long as the population is there . |
| 9 | It ca n't go on for ever because characters such as the Fat Slags ( right ) can only go on so long before the joke starts to wear thin . |
| 10 | ‘ I ca n't remember what it 's like to be drunk , ’ said O'Toole some years after taking the pledge , ‘ it 's so long since a drink passed my lips . |
| 11 | It has not been so long since the average chartered or company secretary was something of an eminence grise , rather than being in the front-line . |
| 12 | When on 5 September the Lords Lieutenant of the four most northerly counties were ordered to make their respective militias ready for immediate service , it emerged that neither Northumberland nor Durham had been reimbursed by central government for the money they had previously spent in keeping the force mustered , while the authorities in Cumberland admitted candidly : ‘ T is so long since the militia was raised that we are apprehensive the arms are either lost or in bad order . ’ |
| 13 | They also extend the traditions of the area — the working over of old dumps by ‘ dressers ’ has taken place since ancient times and will , no doubt , continue to do so long after the mines close down . |
| 14 | Now , not so long after the rebels won , their war has been ignominiously recast in official Arab circles as a training school for religious terrorists . |
| 15 | They also maintained that it would be impossible to hold fair trials so long after the alleged crimes had been committed . |
| 16 | So long as a fissure is known to exist between the Prime Minister and the Chancellor about the ERM , the task of convincing the financial markets that policy is in safe hands will be made infinitely more difficult . |
| 17 | So long as a head of state — and thus his circle of patronage — can change quite unexpectedly , multi-country regional groupings will have to overcome major political as well as economic problems . |
| 18 | Kádár was fairly liberal in that respect , so long as a few taboos were respected , especially the role of the Soviet Union . |
| 19 | With this purchase came the inevitable decision to ‘ get rid of the horses so long as a comfortable place could be found ’ . |
| 20 | With a digital signal , it is very difficult for distortion to occur since so long as a 1 remains a 1 and 0 remains a 0 the signal will continue to carry all the information and the data stream will be as pure at the end as it was at the beginning . |
| 21 | Therefore , only so long as a woman is in labour shall he give up Israel ; and then those that survive of his race shall rejoin their brethren . |
| 22 | So long as a tiger stands still or moves slowly , its stripes make it practically invisible in the jungle or among reeds . |
| 23 | Perhaps it may now be accepted that so long as a historian is acting as a historian , his criteria must arise from his own study and must not be imported from some other autonomous field . |
| 24 | Lear is now experiencing the truth of La Rochefoucauld 's maxim that ‘ So long as a man is still in a position to help others he will rarely encounter ingratitude . ’ |
| 25 | Even in a larger group , so long as a few actors stand to benefit disproportionately from the group 's success , then it may be worth their while to bear the costs of collective action , although less-involved people will free-ride . |
| 26 | So long as a group formation persists , or so far as it extends , individuals in the group behave as though they were uniform , tolerate peculiarities of its members , equate themselves with them , and have no feeling of aversion towards them . |
| 27 | The justification supposes that so long as a person is possessed of a right , that right may be exercised regardless of the consequences for others . |
| 28 | And so long as a transaction falls within the scope of an activity set out in the objects clause ( ’ manufacturing ’ , ‘ property development ’ , and so on ) it will be authorised . |
| 29 | So long as a judge keeps silent his reputation for wisdom and impartiality remains unassailable : but every utterance which he makes in public , except in the course of the actual performance of his judicial duties , must necessarily bring him within the focus of criticism . |
| 30 | The sickle lasted for so long as a harvesting tool for this very reason : it was still used in preference to the swap-hook and scythe in some areas because its use , although slower , conserved the grain . |