Example sentences of "but [vb -s] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon too the horrors that Mr Hussein has promised but has so far failed to deliver may start to materialise : nerve gas , biological weapons , blazing oil fields . |
| 2 | England international Dixon has been ridiculed by the chant , ‘ if Lee Dixon plays for England , so can I ’ , but has so far refused to talk about it . |
| 3 | Apple has been successful selling to schools in other countries , but has so far failed to make an impact in Japan ( apart from selling to private schools ) . |
| 4 | But tests so far have clearly shown that dietary fibre increases the wastage and indicated that generally the higher the fibre content the higher the wastage of calories . |
| 5 | Nylon makes a 100% recovery to its original length but does so rather slowly . |
| 6 | Thus , if the buyer does not immediately buy replacement goods but does so subsequently and at a different price from the market price at the date of the breach , that is normally irrelevant . |
| 7 | If a group wittingly shares an attitude over a relevant issue but does so only for a limited period of time before falling into disarray , it would be difficult to refer to the group as an elite in any meaningful sense since the outcomes would be insignificant . |