Example sentences of "[conj] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | The seven virtues put together the three theological virtues which arise from man 's relationship to God as his creator , and are the condition of all Christian action — faith , hope and charity — with the four classical virtues which relate to man as a social being : justice towards others , prudence in distinguishing good from evil in the world , fortitude in all circumstances , " whethir so betides " and temperance to achieve a balanced life-style to " lyff skillwisely [ with discretion ] als the lawe techis " . |
| 2 | Never mind where so long as it is a public space . |
| 3 | If the great social security businesses can be turned into successful , free-standing executive agencies , the problem will have been cracked — the Next Steps reforms will have worked where so many attempts at change faltered . |
| 4 | Aggregate data do not , of course , allow us to draw any inferences about the behaviour of individual authorities which give rise to these findings , particularly where so few cases are often involved . |
| 5 | As Dorothy Hardisty wrote in her journal , ‘ … such failures exist where so great an upheaval has taken place , and it was not to be expected that the Movement 's records should be free from shadows . ’ |
| 6 | Of course , we all had to admit that the 25SE was built well , using ‘ proper ’ looking materials , components and hardware , something the Americans are so expert at and where so many British amp manufacturers fall down . |
| 7 | It is a tribute to his determination over his 22 years that he has achieved where so many before him have failed . |
| 8 | ‘ Cope ’ succeeds where so many suck because it 's such a great blend of US and UK cultures . |
| 9 | It did n't matter where so long as it was cheap . |
| 10 | Normally I 'd be reaching for ‘ annihilate ’ button when faced with such an ‘ aware ’ and ‘ right-on ’ selection of topics but Leatherface succeed where so many others have failed by virtue of the tuneful tempestuousness of their music , an assault with melody , muscle and sheer conviction which is irresistible , and the fact that Frankie Stubbs never sounds like a po-faced preacher — unlike a certain other native of the North-East whose name I can hardly type without sending my blood-pressure into the red . |
| 11 | This polarisation causes the debate to stall , but in a world where unemployment is unlikely to fall fast or far and where so much work needs doing the idea may be worth exploring further . |
| 12 | Who , they asked each other , was this newcomer , who had succeeded where so many others had failed ? |
| 13 | In the November election of 1937 the Communists declared that " certain seats are being contested independently , but nowhere where so doing would endanger Labour seats " . |
| 14 | It seemed as if , after eighteen months of complete stalemate on the Western Front , with neither side able to make a breakthrough , the subordinate German commanders at Verdun had lost confidence to succeed where so many others had failed . |
| 15 | I wish to be at home with you indeed , indeed-my Joy is only in the bud here I am like that Tree , which fronts me — The Sun shines bright & warm , as if it were summer — but it is not summer & so it shines on leafless boughs . |
| 16 | Have got today ( Monday 17th ) off ( yippee ! ) but have n't done much — slightly hungover from last night , I went to see Tex Mex with Ruth & Euan & some of their friends , the food was great , & so today had a long lie in then went to a few shops … which were n't open because it 's an Edinburgh holiday … |
| 17 | Of course there are lots of questions which would have to be sorted out — the difference is the Scottish Education system , & the courses offered , for a start — & you might well have doubts about cutting yourself off from your friends & so forth . |
| 18 | I 'm all packed up for the shoot tomorrow … the second last for this year — then 2 more in January & into the salmon season on Jan. 15 th ! & so the year 's round etc . |
| 19 | It is in the last hundred years or so that theories have been advanced to justify critical or art historical practice , the creation of such theories being made more urgent in the last fifty years by a struggle to establish and then uphold the status of art history as an academic discipline . |
| 20 | ‘ Beneath a sultry sky , at four o'clock , the island , boats slipping past its flank , stirring with a casual Sunday crowd enjoying the fresh air among the trees ; and these forty or so figures are endowed with a succinct , hieratic line … |
| 21 | The novel ( or so I hope ) signals a separation between author and narrator with its very first sentence : ‘ The World is what it is ; men who are nothing , who allow themselves to become nothing , have no place in it . ’ |
| 22 | Eighty years does n't seem a very long time when you consider the art of acting has been prospering in Europe over the last four hundred or so years , quite apart from the great traditions of ancient Greek drama . |
| 23 | Apart from the fact that there has been significant support for the alliance party over the last dozen years or so among the catholic middle classes , there is also a further factor . |
| 24 | Or so I keep telling myself . |
| 25 | Fewer than ten of the sixty or so pubs occupying old buildings in central York have completely escaped assault by post-war ‘ improvements ’ , and in none of these is the surviving pub interior any older than late Victorian . |
| 26 | Arthur Price chairman John Price says : ‘ 13/0 certainly looks as bright and as cheerful as 18/8 but after it has been in use for a short while it goes dull and then grey and , after a year or so , stains and pitmarks develop which can not be removed . ’ |
| 27 | After an hour or so the pungency diminishes . |
| 28 | But common sense , coupled with the prospect of the time and paperwork involved in interviewing the hundred or so people who 'd been through the Cookery and Refreshment Tent during the past few hours finally defeated his hope for personal glory through brilliant deduction . |
| 29 | A day or so later , I came down with a very nasty bout of influenza . |
| 30 | The hostel could be tolerated for a month or so and during the interlude I would concentrate all my efforts on finding somewhere more permanent to live . |