Example sentences of "[prep] so [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | All we 've talked about so far is drinking and lying on a beach . |
| 2 | But do remember , what we 've talked about so far is the Sale Of Goods Act . |
| 3 | Even the cash-flow predictions they cared about so much were nothing to her but answers she wanted ticked . |
| 4 | The convention which it produced was signed by 119 delegations but the problems which caused the conference to drag on for so long are anything but solved . |
| 5 | How he had put up with my attitude for so long is a mystery to me . |
| 6 | Are you saying that , in fact , not having had sex for so long is a problem for you ? ’ |
| 7 | I shall draw a comparison with the Act that I mentioned earlier , whose survival for so long is a sign of its success — that establishing the Office of Fair Trading . |
| 8 | ‘ The reason people have been concerned about this case for so long is that it is about far bigger issues . |
| 9 | The devotion to duty which made him a surprisingly successful stalwart at Ibrox for so long is still evident in Miller 's conscientious work with his young players . |
| 10 | Partly because the machinery of repression has been so all-embracing for so long , stifling any messages of opposition before they reached a platform , and partly because Romania has for so long been cut off from the mainstream of European thinking and political change , constructive ideas have been hard to come by . |
| 11 | In November 1983 Milan Kundera wrote an essay for Le Débat , in which he argued that Russia could never really be considered part of Europe because it had for so long been dominated by Caesaropapism , where the civil emperor is also the supreme religious leader . |
| 12 | If the truth were known , it is only because I have for so long been lonely that I welcome demands for help . |
| 13 | The road had for so long been the only goal that I 'd given no thought to anything beyond . |
| 14 | A disciplined , regular army was about to drive the gunmen from streets which had for so long been ruled by rival guerrillas exacting their own terrible day-to-day justice . |
| 15 | Fortunately , the answer lay close at hand , in that sense of the redeeming power of personal example which had for so long been part of the mental furniture of the British middle classes . |
| 16 | The finest of them all was probably Roger Payne ( 1739–97 ) , paradoxically an uneducated , hard-drinking workman , content to live in squalor , yet , over the years 1770–97 , producing for such patrons as Lord Spencer work that influenced the craft not only in England but in France , whose binding had for so long been supreme . |
| 17 | The one at Marham in Norfolk incorporates a World War One aeroplane of unspecified type and that at Upwood the Canberra which has for so long been associated with the RAF station . |
| 18 | The London theatres , which had for so long been a particular thorn in the side of Puritan moralists such as William Prynne , were closed down at the outbreak of the civil war and remained shut until the Restoration . |
| 19 | The second site , at Chedworth , has for so long been accepted as the typical Romano-British villa , that one hesitates to question its function . |
| 20 | What lies behind the fear and insecurity of French Canadians is patently a social cataclysm which is indicated by the dramatically sudden collapse of the Catholic Church in what had for so long been a conservative , Catholic , clerical , child- producing society not only among the farmers but among townspeople . |
| 21 | Yet he knew that most of them would never survive even if they were free and that most would probably want to stay where they had for so long been safe , secure and well fed . |
| 22 | It had taken a few days to persuade her ladyship to accept change , for she had for so long been used to living in squalor that she could not at first accustom herself to an altered way of life . |
| 23 | What then are the implications for sectors of traditional activity where books , journals and newspapers have for so long been the unwavering mainstays ? |
| 24 | Something inside that empty bottle that I had ignored for so long was hitting back . |
| 25 | He was delighted , of course , that the objective he and his colleagues had worked towards for so long was finally approaching , but it was disheartening to see such damage and disruption being inflicted on what was , after all , his home . |
| 26 | The letters they exchanged were formal , just words on a piece of paper ; the warmth they had all shared for so long was missing . |
| 27 | She tried to control herself , but the will which had driven her for so long was broken , whether forever , or temporarily , she did not know . |
| 28 | Everything was out in the open now and the dream she had had for so long was about to turn into reality . |
| 29 | I felt then that at last the ambitions I 'd had for so long were possible , and that I could stop worrying about the gypsy who 'd looked at me closely a couple of years earlier , and said : ‘ You 'll never come to anything , you wo n't . ’ |
| 30 | It was not until the following Monday that the affidavits on which Julia had worked so hard and for so long were presented to the court . |