Example sentences of "but so [adv] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Albert smiled at her but so sadly that it brought her no comfort . |
| 2 | ‘ The game against Marseille will now be a battle but so long as we have someone like Andy Goram behind us , we feel solid . |
| 3 | ‘ Leeds City could not be suspended as a club — we had no power to do that ; but so long as they refused to give up those vital papers , we could have no way out save by expelling them . |
| 4 | Many knitters worry about damaging their machines if they break the rules , but so long as you allow the machine to guide you , you should n't damage it . |
| 5 | They want rearing and all that , they want to rear you see but so long as you get them settled and stand on them do anything , keep them down . |
| 6 | I do n't know , but so long as I can cure the disease I do n't much care ! |
| 7 | Hodge did not deem Rhee essential to a future government but so long as he remained one of the few nationally known leaders , his cooperation was required . |
| 8 | The coalition has rightly been ready to run these risks to get Iraq out of Kuwait ; but so long as it could achieve that central aim , how much better to do so without further fear of all the weapons in a tyrant 's armoury . |
| 9 | Well , it 's all Greek to me , but so long as it keeps him happy . ’ |
| 10 | But so long as there remain others where realism seems compelling , in those the sceptic 's challenge bites . |
| 11 | It is difficult to form any clear conception of what these activities would be like if undertaken in isolation but so far as one can form such a conception it is of something essentially futile . |
| 12 | Especially from the Seven Years War in 1757 , the wars in which Britain was involved may have been European and dynastic in origin , but so far as her struggle with France was concerned , they were global in breadth . |
| 13 | A lot of people ran away with the idea that they were Pacifists , but so far as he was concerned that was not true . |
| 14 | But so far as I 'm concerned , Fedorov is the more important ; do n't do anything to prejudice our chances of taking him . ’ |
| 15 | Britain 's former world sports car champion Brundle said last night : ‘ I 've heard the stories , but so far as I 'm concerned they 're just that — stories and rumour . |
| 16 | But so far as I know they have never been reprinted , and I have let slip from my memory now the name of the author ( a salutary warning against undue pride for those of us writing today ) . |
| 17 | He was immensely well-read on political history in the nineteenth century and more recent times , and he deployed a memory of fantastic accuracy , but so far as I could judge he had read virtually nothing else . |
| 18 | The identification is often questioned , but so far as I can see on no adequate grounds . |
| 19 | Lithium batteries are even better , but so far as I know are only available in PP3 size . |
| 20 | I am open to contradiction , but so far as I understand , the Association as such , played no direct part either in the recent increases in apprentices ' salaries , which were reviewed automatically , nor in the revival of their indenture , which is the result of a tortuous and painfully slow consideration by the Law Society . |
| 21 | A class member of Vanessa 's made a birthday cake iced in blue and white , depicting naturally , a ball , hoop , club and the Medau logo — but so beautifully that it was with difficulty that Marjorie was persuaded to cut into it . |
| 22 | The infant , cradled in Miriam 's arms , began to cry , but so feebly that its noise made hardly any impression on the expanse of open air . |
| 23 | Be warned though , it does n't work on all PC speakers — there are one or two in the office that emit a sound of some sort , but so quietly that you need a hearing aid to catch anything at all . |