Example sentences of "so [adv] [conj] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | A boxer before the war , Charles Nungesser had been smashed up so badly that by the time of Verdun he had to be lifted bodily into the cockpit and could only use one leg on the rudder controls . |
| 2 | The thought that the country might attempt suicide once again , so soon and by much the same means as last time , is almost too painful to contemplate . |
| 3 | By mid-June , the projection of the opinion polls was already suggesting that the majority favouring a measure of divorce legislation was declining so rapidly that by the time of the poll , the noes would have it . |
| 4 | After that its popularity spread so rapidly that by 1883 , the year of the National Apple Congress held at the society 's garden in Chiswick , 183 out of 231 exhibitors included it among the varieties they showed . |
| 5 | He moved so rapidly that by the time she had recovered enough to scream they were driving towards her flat . |
| 6 | From about 1780 onwards , the population grew so steadily and so rapidly that by 1950 the number of inhabitants had again increased by seven times . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , Paul is saying that Jesus ' death affected him so profoundly that by standing in his shadow he is forgiven and justified . |
| 8 | Lack of an alternative summer team sport protected cricket between the wars and it benefited from a brief post-1945 resurgence in numbers , but then numbers fell so dramatically that by 1965 they stood at about a third of the post-1945 years . |
| 9 | Buttons landed perfectly and came away from the jump so well that by the time her father had collected himself and his horse Artemis and Buttons were alongside them . |
| 10 | But things have gone so well that by June 1993 he hopes to launch a further 20 growers . |
| 11 | Then reality started to move so fast that by the time he caught up it was all over and they were parked on the hard shoulder . |
| 12 | Successful nursing depends very largely on the nurse 's ability to deal effectively with information received through the senses , whether it is obtained by formal means , such as taking blood-pressure , temperatures and so on or by informal means such as noticing changes in the patient 's condition during bed-making . |