Example sentences of "so [adv] [prep] the past " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such signs of relative forgiveness on the part of the leaders he had persecuted so relentlessly in the past , particularly Deng Xiaoping , offer perhaps the clearest insight into Chen 's career : he had never been a political force in his own right but merely a faithful interpreter and executor of Mao 's will . |
| 2 | The plan to construct a political union in Europe on the model of the German Federal Republic betrays just this kind of defective level of political maturity from which Germany has suffered so badly in the past . |
| 3 | So much for the past . |
| 4 | That it was done so artlessly in the past , of course , does not mean that ideas of what is right and wrong should not be dealt with in stories and novels for young people . |
| 5 | Political prosecutions and political imprisonment may be deemed so far in the past as to be without modern day relevance . |
| 6 | The 19 year old Spaniard has always had the weapons but , so often in the past , has used them sparingly in her pursuit of greatness . |
| 7 | The flash-point came , as so often in the past , in the car industry , with Ford workers , members of the TGWU , deciding to smash the 5 per cent guideline with calls for a minimum pay rise of £20 a week and associated fringe benefits . |
| 8 | Nor , in truth , had they done so often in the past . |
| 9 | The TCSC was sceptical about the Treasury 's forecast of inflation dropping to 3 per cent by 1992 given that official predictions have been wrong so often in the past . |
| 10 | Sadly , I can not share your optimistic conclusion , which implies we will always muddle through together as we have done so often in the past . |
| 11 | As so often in the past , Our Lady blessed us with fine weather so that were able to hold our group procession on Wednesday morning , carrying her statue along the holy mile to the Shrine , singing hymns and reciting the Rosary . |
| 12 | Up at five and sleeping badly of late , Luke kept his mind off Perdita and himself awake on the long straight roads , as he had done so often in the past , by concentrating on a particular horse . |
| 13 | Time alone will tell whether these initiatives will significantly add to the drive towards improved VFM in central government , or , as so often in the past , will in the end have little effect . |
| 14 | In this way , as so often in the past , even in the throes of revolution and civil war Siberia once more demonstrated the intimate and inextricable connection between its own internal fortunes , the sufferings and achievements of its people and the historical development of Russia as a whole . |
| 15 | It is your land , Creggan , it is yours … ’ and she spoke to him gently as so often in the past he had spoken to her . |
| 16 | Although Newby and his colleagues have demonstrated the dogged hold of traditional rural society on the levers of power , the changes foreseen by Pahl and Thorns , and documented by Ambrose , Connell , Radford and Pacione , may be only the foretaste of a much greater change in rural society , if the development of rural communities in California is a guide to the future as it has been so often in the past . |
| 17 | Nor should we any longer ignore change in the changing world : We should grasp the opportunities offered now , because if action is delayed circumstances can soon turn against us , as they have so often in the past . |
| 18 | ‘ I have promised that so often in the past , and it has never answered yet ! ’ |
| 19 | ’ As so often in the past , our Government are stuck in the defensive mud . |
| 20 | AS so often in the past , a major sporting event is set to give Northern Ireland a morale boost at just the right time . |
| 21 | But when the end comes it may well , as so often in the past , be bloody , both for her and her party . |
| 22 | Erm , I , I , I did n't say the question lightly it 's just that I think it needs watching , and I wondered how it was , because I 've heard so often in the past , that people have so many lines of enquiries , but the money goes , and you know , it 's all marvellous , and I 'm not suggesting |
| 23 | They 've played here so often in the past they feel they know the place intimately . |
| 24 | I will certainly see the Minister next week to appeal the case , but having done so , so often in the past I am not terribly hopeful , ’ she said . |
| 25 | The free Trade Agreement will do the trick … a situation in which the old-fashioned Unionist intransigence which served Britain so well in the past will also be outdated as no longer so convenient to imperialism . |
| 26 | But increasingly we are finding that they are developing across the interstices of the organizational and technical skills which have served us so well in the past . |
| 27 | And suddenly , despite fitzAlan 's merciless vow of retribution , a fatalistic calmness descended on her , bringing a return of the cool impassivity that had served her so well in the past . |
| 28 | It is a wise precaution to ensure that we continue to have the nuclear deterrent which has served us so well in the past . |