Example sentences of "so [adv] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | So perhaps to imagine the postman 's work in isolation is to imagine him walking down a street posting letters , or at least sealed envelopes , but imagining the houses as mere facades , with no rooms or people behind . |
| 2 | At times , such as during the long wars with France from 1793 to 1815 , they seem to have done so especially to fill the labour gap created by absent men . |
| 3 | How could she have failed to be knocked sideways by the man who , despite standing motionless and silent during the ceremony , appeared so effortlessly to dominate the proceedings ? |
| 4 | As I refused so soon to repeat the horrors of the afternoon , the taxi ride from the Olympik to Nove Mesto ( the New Town ) was a real treat . |
| 5 | On the way back from the classical ruins of Byblos in an old red and green school bus , co-opted by the bus company for the tourist trade , we drive down the coastal highway into Beirut from the north , towards Martyrs ' Square , so soon to become the front line . |
| 6 | She marvels that they flow so easily to fill the vast space in which she moves . |
| 7 | It makes me wonder too , if those who decided so quickly to close the homes examined the reasons why there were so many vacancies . |
| 8 | By 1310 , therefore , when Edward moved his court and government to York in order to escape the inhibiting surveillance of the Ordainers , he did so ostensibly to combat the Scottish menace . |
| 9 | EQUITY & LAW , The Netherlands ' 60ft yacht skippered by Dirk Nauta , yesterday became the first of the smaller boats and 15th so far to finish the first leg of the Whitbread Round the World Race to Punta del Este in Uruguay . |
| 10 | The Metropolitan Borough of Wigan has been sufficiently impressed with the results so far to finance the printing of enough copies for the first year pupils of three comprehensive schools beginning in September 1985 . |
| 11 | The Egyptian foreign minister , Amr Moussa , made it clear he expected Israel to offer more than it has so far to return the deportees to their homes in the occupied territories . |
| 12 | In Jordan , where the authorities hope the experiment in democracy will become a model for other Arab states , King Hussein has opted so far to draw the fundamentalists into the government . |
| 13 | Claire is one of three patients so far to undergo the procedure under the supervision of consultant orthopaedic surgeon Richard Montgomery . |
| 14 | She is one of three patients so far to undergo the procedure at the hospital , under the supervision of consultant orthopaedic surgeon , Mr Richard Montgomery . |
| 15 | In short , it is that it offers a way of by-passing ‘ the awkward corner ’ , Nearly twenty years ago Professor Joan Robinson observed that the predictable consequences of the attainment of near-full employment must , if institutions and attitudes did not accommodate themselves to the new circumstances , be so far to strengthen the power of the trade unions as to prompt a vicious spiral of wages and prices ; and that it would become chronic . |
| 16 | The Principal wrote in November 1967 that the only recourse was ‘ to ensure that every possible safeguard should be written into the constitution of such a scheme ’ , and following local negotiations he considered that ‘ we have gone as far as we are able so far to safeguard the courses and attitudes of this College and we have confidence that the LEA are making every effort to ensure that Diploma in Art and Design ( DipAD ) courses and developments will be given the fullest support , and will not be undermined in any way by the Polytechnic proposals ’ . |
| 17 | Statutory services have , however , done little so far to encourage the development of such services , even though they can bring very significant emotional benefits to individuals , particularly those living alone or who are estranged from their families . |
| 18 | Many thanks to those who worked so hard and so well to prepare the children . |
| 19 | This had the advantage of assuring leadership by a strong adult rather than the possibility of a child inheriting — a hazard which was so frequently to affect the later Stuart dynasty . |
| 20 | Double-headed again , with Nos 26007 and 26043 , a photo stop at Blackburn was soon reached and so on to join the Settle-Carlisle line at Hellifield Junction . |
| 21 | I do so again to counter the growing myth that Teesside is becoming some sort of earthly paradise a wonderland where industry and nature have achieved perfect harmony . |
| 22 | ‘ It is much to be regretted , that the owner of the Purse Crag should have cut down the beautiful trees , which served so wonderfully to enrich the prospects on this side of the water . |
| 23 | Yet it is on that flood and the damage to swimming pools and jacuzzis caused by it that the NRA relies so heavily to demonstrate the existence of a so-called Maidenhead factor . |
| 24 | I 've already said this morning that the District Council does not consider that it can accommodate any further dwellings within the Southern Ryedale area without adversely affecting the character of the settlements that are already there , or compromising greenbelt objectives , erm , so therefore to meet the Greater York total , the District Council considers it essential that there is a new settlement to take that amount of housing that can not be accommodated within the Southern Ryedale area . |