Example sentences of "and [adv] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so so indeed do I . |
| 2 | The environmental conditions with which the system is in equilibrium may shift , and only so long as the equilibrium can be set at new and workable positions can the species survive . |
| 3 | Citizens of the United Kingdom do , however , have an individual right of access to the European enforcement agencies whether Her Majesty 's government likes it or not , so long that is , and only so long as that government continues to accede to the Convention and the jurisdiction of the machinery which it establishes . |
| 4 | Laura and Ross were such an outstandingly good-looking couple , and obviously so very much in love . |
| 5 | Particularly in secluded , well sheltered , and not so well ventilated gardens , the open centre — and perhaps also the planting distance between plants so that they do not merge and clash — is more important with Floribundas . |
| 6 | A really well-designed state pension scheme ( complete with lump sums ) and not so closely tied to employment history as any of the current schemes on offer , could probably do as well or better than occupational or personal pension provision for most women . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , ’ she said , picking her way delicately for his sake , ‘ the cloth still finds its way in , though not so freely and not so profitably . |
| 8 | Although with the building of the railways its share reached a third ( 35 per cent in 1841 – 60 ) , the 1760 – 1820 contribution was equal to that in manufacturing and trade in 1761 – 90 , and not so far behind it , or agriculture , in 1791 – 1820 . |
| 9 | ‘ Her young man was taken prisoner at Dunkirk and not so long ago her father was badly hurt in the Clydeside blitz , but you 'd never know it . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ It 's a lovely piano , and not so very much out of tune . |
| 11 | Somewhere , and not so very far off , there was a musket fight . |
| 12 | However , there do exist , and not so uncommonly that they can be safely ignored , minimal semantic constituents which consist of more than one word . |
| 13 | Billy : ‘ For the first LP ( Gish ) , I was really trying to express more … like a feeling and not so much something specific . |
| 14 | It was not until the last hymn that Ianthe happened to turn her head slightly and not so much see him as become conscious that he was sitting behind her and presumably had been throughout the service . |
| 15 | The French , the Dutch , and the Spanish were ready to attack them , and over so widely scattered a set of islands the attacker would always find some weak spot to invade and devastate . |
| 16 | How much older April looked in death , and somehow so much smaller . |
| 17 | The Sun in Libra and the travel angle of your solar chart after the 23rd will almost certainly lead you far , wide and ever so slightly astray . |
| 18 | MacLane had n't shaved in a week and listed ‘ sweating ’ as his hobby in Who 's Who ; Bellamy radiated open-faced friendliness and ever so slightly dumb honesty . |
| 19 | Oddly enough , I found that I could keep the port wing up for a considerable time and , as I lost flying speed and I came nearer and nearer to the Engineering Wing area , the port wing happily stayed in the air until my speed was very low indeed and then gradually — and I did not think of this — one ( and only one ) of the prop blades gently ploughed into the rather soft earth , My port wing was still in the air , and ever so gently we made a beautiful semi-turn to port . |
| 20 | on and off so probably managed very badly . |
| 21 | He refused to look to either side ; crossing the bridge on the pleasantest of days could be a frightening experience and more so now as the ice below split and cracked . |
| 22 | The veneration of several murdered Anglo-Saxon royal saints , and especially of Edmund of East Anglia and Edward the Martyr , almost certainly had overtones of this kind , and probably so too did the rapid growth of St Olaf 's cult in Norway in the 1030s , occasioned partly by the unpopular rule of Swegen and Ælfgifu of Northampton , who owed their position to his death . |
| 23 | And as so often happens in these situations , with United on top for so , so long , it was Charlton on the breakaway who scored that vital equaliser with just nine minutes remaining . |
| 24 | Vincent Skinner , the Writer of the Tallies , complained that ‘ the distraction I have had about quarrels to my place have hindered me much and now so utterly discouraged me that the service I intended to have done I could not . |
| 25 | " My heart 's inflamed With love 's alarms Which now so sharply stings And now so strongly charms . " |
| 26 | Lastly there is the question of cost , always important with social research , and particularly so here . |
| 27 | They probably have neither the time nor the inclination to go through the necessary learning process , and particularly so now that the more modern battery-powered devices are available and are so efficient . |
| 28 | There is nothing constitutionally mandatory about any such particular structure but , both in existing legislation and particularly so far as internal civil service organisation is concerned , such a structure is assumed and there are heavy administrative costs involved in change . |
| 29 | Colleagues , just to try and let you know what , er I 've got in my mind concerning the business that 's fell off the agenda yesterday and today so far . |
| 30 | Now police forces have to grade their to things , we get the immediate response , the nine nine nine calls , and then so on . |