Example sentences of "but so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well yes , it is difficult , but so what ? |
| 2 | He was described by one of his students as being ‘ a brilliant man but so practically inept that he needed help to cross the road safely ’ . |
| 3 | But so did they : friends were for fun and solace . |
| 4 | But so many would not come back from the war . |
| 5 | It sounds like a soap opera but so does any tragedy ( ! ) that happens to real people . |
| 6 | But so seized was he by the divine knowledge , so ‘ evangelistically ’ fixed with its potency , that his exploits on its behalf quickly created his legend . |
| 7 | Not only does seeing a chair as a three-dimensional object have this character , but so does seeing one line as longer in the Mulier-Lyer illusion ( in which two lines of equal length look unequal when differently slanting lines are drawn at the tips ) despite our knowing that the two lines are really the same length . |
| 8 | The Stockholm Open would have a strong claim , but so too would Tokyo , not least for the enormous amount of Japanese funding there is these days for tennis . |
| 9 | Of days one was proud to be associated with railways and too many ( still only a sprinkling but so devastatingly disrupting ) that one swore always to take the car next time . |
| 10 | I have scoured magazines for any information on this subject , but so far , to no avail . |
| 11 | Andrew and Wendy will miss Pete in Hong Kong , but so intelligent and sensitive a canine is he , they can expect the warmest Yorkshire welcome when they pay a return visit . |
| 12 | But so do many things once the dust of composition has settled and the builder 's yard of notebooks and rejected drafts can be studied at leisure . |
| 13 | It would attract the automatic charge of ‘ élitist ’ , but so , potentially , do many worthwhile kinds of intellectual activity . |
| 14 | Yet it was , I think , a tragedy for both parties that the whale of London could not keep down this nimble Jonah who distracted , but so well stimulated , her lethargic stomach . |
| 15 | But so far we have received no direct approach . |
| 16 | But so much the better ; not every 80-year-old survives an entirely new experience so succesfully . |
| 17 | But so far , against Timman , he has unusually restrained and conventional , showing little of his usual creativity . |
| 18 | A recession would cut back London 's traffic but so long as the economy keeps growing , the result will be more cars , more traffic and more pollution . |
| 19 | But so far , efforts have been focused on purely military solutions . |
| 20 | The few remaining Jews in Eastern Europe are being allowed a greater degree of freedom , but so are antisemites . |
| 21 | They are used to all sorts of emergencies , but there has never been anything like this : their own people , prepared to face appalling hardships , possible arrest or even death to get out , arriving exhausted but so happy to be free . |
| 22 | But so do many of the opposition groups here , entertaining a touching if economically illiterate faith in a third way which would involve neither reunification nor a return to capitalism . |
| 23 | ‘ But so rotten has the policy proved that not even a ‘ taxpayer bail-out ’ could save it . |
| 24 | The International Stock Exchange has called for more time to implement the changes but so far it has had little success . |
| 25 | But so far Kwik-Fit 's chairman , Tom Farmer , has , it appears , shown little inclination to meet the German wishes . |
| 26 | Many of the soldiers have families held hostage in the refugee camps along the Thai border , but so do the two other , much less effective , resistance factions . |
| 27 | But so far only four men have been buried and no autopsy results have been disclosed . |
| 28 | ‘ Some people said that he 'd have to change his style when he turned professional , but so far he 's stuck to his natural game , and he has n't done badly with it so far . |
| 29 | This is high-minded and perhaps romantic , but so is the opposition : so are the large things that they want , like freedom and justice . |
| 30 | ‘ But so long as the system remains as it is , those who choose to disregard their obligations must realise they may face a fine . ’ |