Example sentences of "so [adv] [pos pn] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 So perhaps his outing at Kirkistown next month will be the last time we 'll see him .
2 Of course , we know that this is impossible , so perhaps his opinion of us is not worth considering .
3 The problem with the Hollywood film industry was not so much its desire for profit as its concern with other things , such as power , responsibility and morality .
4 It 's not so much their habit of closing their wings just as you draw close enough to see ; it 's more their unwillingness to be in any way uniform .
5 The problem is not so much our ignorance over the issues relevant to a discussion of epidemiology and risk , appalling though that is , as the confusion of our feelings about sex itself .
6 If they are so much our superior in everything else , one would think that their insurance-based systems might be better also .
7 It was not so much his attentiveness to her — the infatuation of old men was common enough — but her petting and cooing with him which provoked what became a quietly savoured complicity between Hope and Mary .
8 Yet for so long their thoughts on sex and love have been ignored .
9 It was also shown that the pedagogical perspectives held by mainstream mathematical educators , broadly ‘ psychometric ’ , were such as to legitimate the broad outlines of a curriculum differentiated by ‘ ability ’ ( but not so clearly its differentiation by sex ) .
10 But so far their explanation of rising crime has largely focused on alleged deficiencies in police strategy , in particular on counter-productive militaristic tactics which exacerbate ‘ public alienation ’ and therefore impede successful crime control ( Kinsey et al . ,
11 So far their reaction to the take-over has been loudly-voiced support , and angrily expressed sentiments of violence , but no violence itself .
12 Erm er so far my list of what we 're going to do this week includes for Derek erm fi tracking down non-local copies of Yellow Pages by phoning people and hassling people who are about to go home .
13 Again marketing budget at two , six , seven , the point made there again , numbered item one in the bottom third no national advertising and then two sixty eight , this is a meeting of the twenty fifth of February nineteen eighty eight , present including Mr and yourself today I send that 's Mr pointed out that so far our reaction to the recent media criticism had been totally defensive in future these actions to be defended , but then attacked in order to regain our credibility were you indeed present at that meeting of the twenty fifth of erm February ?
14 Indeed , most companies responding admitted to employing headhunters principally for such strategic positions as Gozzard indicated , so inevitably their usage of search was exceptional rather than everyday .
15 So surely his analogy in no way suggests his conclusion .
16 Oh well , mock GCSE 's when we get back , so maybe my dream of becoming a judge will come true .
17 ‘ It 'll be risky , ’ said Harry , noticing as he did so how his choice of tense had changed from the conditional to the future .
18 So too his message of the coming kingdom can not be lifted out and carried over to the present : that message was refuted when Jesus himself attempted to provoke the intervention of God and bring about the end of history by challenging the powers and authorities of his own day .
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