Example sentences of "so [adv] [subord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We knew each other before the Expo , though not quite so intimately as now . ’ |
| 2 | I mean , what we 're trying to do in the visual arts is to spend what limited money we have to produce a better situation for the visual artist and for the public who gets pleasure and enlightenment from visual arts than exists at the moment , so rather than just prop up the status quo , which is what is would be very easy to do if one just kept the pot boiling so to speak by giving a few grants to artists here and sitting at the centre of a spider 's web in Tunbridge Wells waiting for applications to come in to us and then responding . |
| 3 | It was a favourite gambit of his and I had been caught before ; but never so successfully as now . |
| 4 | How sad to see our old people not just robbed but beaten up so badly as well . |
| 5 | It is an institution which until recently my fellow countrymen valued so highly as willingly to pay any price needful for its preservation . |
| 6 | She said she sometimes longed to go out , to a disco or an amusement arcade and be with other girls , but her uncle was strict and did n't like her going to those places , and although she was sometimes lonely she could n't stand the thought of going back to that school , especially now she had been away from it for so long because anyway her friends would n't be there any more and she would be treated like a little girl and the things they had to do would seem more stupid than ever because in her uncle s house she was treated like a grown-up , which she was anyway , and she ran the house . |
| 7 | ( Incidentally , most bureau will buy in typefaces for clients so long as either the client pays for it or there is going to be sufficient volume of work to justify it . ) |
| 8 | His letter says that : ‘ So long as neither the lives of American citizens nor our troops are subjected to immediate danger and the international economic embargo continues to exert substantial pressure against Iraq … offensive military action by the United States unwisely risks massive loss of life . ’ |
| 9 | He flung the bedclothes back but not nearly so purposefully as heretofore , and he stayed on his back beside Clarissa who begged him not to go shouting just for once , because that was what the gramophone girl wanted , did n't he see ? |
| 10 | While noting that Parolles is given some kind of dignity in verse , we should also observe that Shakespeare seldom ends a scene with a soliloquy in prose — Thersites and Falstaff are the only characters who do so more than once . |
| 11 | At an informal level officers and councillors meet frequently at civic functions , receptions and so forth as well as before and after official meetings , and this too , serves to blur the formal relationship between them . |
| 12 | Still sobbing , but not so wretchedly as before , the boy raised his right arm . |
| 13 | Human beings have never touched me so nearly as now when ‘ Nature ’ was so close : I think , too , I never before struck such firm roots into human hearts ’ . |
| 14 | I suppose I 'm feeling slightly sceptical about the situation , but if you ask me as blankly as that of course my immediate reaction , my old reaction would be ‘ but of course I feel confident about the future of British music ’ , you know , in my more sceptical mood now I still would say ‘ yes ’ , but not quite so enthusiastically as before . |
| 15 | You could make them see it so clearly if only you 'd try . ’ |
| 16 | Well , that seems to be everything so far as tomorrow is concerned . |
| 17 | So far as tomorrow 's game at Celtic Park is concerned , Rangers ' Goram , Gough and Steven all came through the midweek Champions League match without further mishap , and will play . |
| 18 | This was rejected by the court , which refused to read the words , so far as reasonably practical , into the statute . |
| 19 | Section 6 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 imposes liabilities on those who supply equipment for use at work to ensure that it is " so far as reasonably practicable … safe and without risks to health when properly used " . |
| 20 | Where the Buyer intends to use the goods at work , the Seller supplies the goods on the basis that the Buyer will ensure , so far as reasonably practicable , that the goods will be safe and without risks to health when properly used , and that prior to delivery the Buyer will sign and return the written undertaking attached hereto as Annex A obliging the Buyer to take the steps specified in that undertaking to ensure this . |
| 21 | Where the Buyer purchases the goods with the intention of selling them to a third party for the use by that third party of the goods at work , the Buyer undertakes to supply the goods to the third party on the basis that the third party will ensure , so far as reasonably practicable , that the goods will be safe and without risks to health when properly used , and the Buyer further undertakes to procure the signature by the third party ( prior to delivery of the goods to the third party ) of the written undertaking attached hereto as Annex A obliging the third party to take the steps specified in that undertaking to ensure this . |
| 22 | Act 1974 , I/we [ ] of [ ] having agreed to purchase [ ] ( " the Article " ) for use at work , hereby undertake in accordance with the above Section that I/we will implement the Specified Steps as set out below in order to ensure , so far as reasonably practicable , that the Article will be safe and without risks to health when properly so used . |
| 23 | That is the problem erm in so far as initially er we felt that it that that the onus would be on the individual , I E if it 's a short term stay car park they would not use it . |
| 24 | A second line of argument is to see the picture painted so far as too static . |
| 25 | I do n't think it 's really a question of public schools , except in so far as so many public schools are all boys . |
| 26 | In what has been described , we have moved from a model of a community in which neighbourly acts were performed within clearly defined limits , with reciprocal benefits looming large , to a model in which , so far as very old people are concerned , such acts are more often the product of altruism ( remembering that this does not deny gratification to the giver ) and of a more systematic attempt to offer and channel care appropriately . |
| 27 | Whether any alternative leadership could have gone further in this direction in the 1960s and 1970s is an open question , but I have argued that it is not useful to conceive of the record so far as merely one of ‘ betrayal ’ . |
| 28 | Arafat , speaking on the PLO Voice of Palestine radio from the Yemen capital of San'aa on July 10 , dismissed the dialogue so far as merely " a contact between two ambassadors , nothing more , nothing less " , and accused the US side of suspending these contacts at Israel 's request . |
| 29 | It does so indirectly as probably the most important forum of opinion and vehicle of publicity in relation to the Executive 's other chief constitutional responsibility — to the electorate . |
| 30 | Asked to explain why his chain should be doing so well when so many others are going to the wall , Mr Myers points to stringent management . |