Example sentences of "so [adv] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed the Baron himself has almost given up buying ( a recent exception was Constable 's ‘ The Lock ’ , which he acquired at Sotheby 's in 1991 for over £10 million ) , as works of sufficient importance appear so rarely on the market and cost so much when they do . |
| 2 | Yeah it 's jus well I 'm going away on the Thursday before Easter , so perhaps on the Wednesday morning |
| 3 | We can not give a detailed proof of this important result here since it depends so crucially on the details of the denotational semantics , which have not been described in this paper . |
| 4 | So impassive and peculiar had the Collector become , so obviously on the verge , everyone thought so ( you would have thought so yourself if you had seen him at this time ) , of giving up the ghost , that his face was scrutinized more closely than ever for any trace of remorse as the gorse bruiser was carried out . |
| 5 | We 've all been trucking along for so long on the back of the post-war consensus ( more growth , more production , more consumption , more jobs , more energy , more roads , more hospitals , more rubbish , etc ) , that most people are understandably reluctant to get off the treadmill — even though they can see it 's falling to pieces . |
| 6 | Neither Andy Forshaw nor Martin Langston stood out in the HDM event , so Clark , for so long on the fringe of national selection , could get his chance for England in the Buttermen Indoor tournament at Crystal Palace on December 29-30 . |
| 7 | Aristotle 's influence was enormous , and even the great English physician , William Harvey , who laboured so long on the chick embryo , could not shake it off . |
| 8 | Nevertheless his characters are heathens , strictly speaking , and Tolkien , having pondered for so long on the Beowulf -poet 's careful balances , was as aware of this fact as he was aware of the opposing images of open Christianity poised at many moments to take over his story . |
| 9 | 1981 ) have done so largely on the basis of comparing the known terrible effects of nuclear weapons with the key underlying principles of the laws of war . |
| 10 | First , a presentation founded so largely on the view that equates the development of industrial democracy to the growth of the process of consultation by management of unions intent on retaining their traditional role which opposes them to management , does not provide a credible basis for the qualitative change , envisaged by the Report , in that role : a change to one of shared responsibility for management . |
| 11 | The arrival of this strong reinforcement , following so soon on the heels of the ‘ Winch ’ arrivals on 3 April , now presented the beginnings of an overcrowding problem at Luqa and Hal Far . |
| 12 | Everything happens so quickly on the water , though , that all you are left with is a vague impression , particularly with something like the carve gybe . |
| 13 | So , to the Hampstead officers who arrived so quickly on the scene , to my neighbours , and to the Black Cab driver ( I 'm afraid I failed to take his number ) who protected me , many thanks . |
| 14 | Aye , why curl up coy , so still on the earth ? |
| 15 | Looking down at the pathetic little body lying so still on the table , she said , ‘ I 'd better leave him like this for Dawn to see . |
| 16 | That the spotlight should be falling so directly on the schools market now was due , said Mr Davey , to the raised profile of education , the introduction of changes tot he national curriculum , but mainly to local management of schools . |
| 17 | Angelica now knew why Alina had disappeared from the terrace so promptly on the day that Walter Hardy had hooked out the dead dog . |
| 18 | Her beautiful jet hair that had moved so provocatively on the yacht that night hung limp and lifeless at the side of her ashen cheeks . |
| 19 | ‘ If this judgment is less helpful than the parties hoped , as it almost certainly is , the reason lies in the terms of the statute , which places the discretion so unequivocally on the trial judge that it leaves little or no room for an appellate court to lay down principles or even guidelines . |
| 20 | Suleiman Franjieh , the elegantly dressed ‘ excellency ’ who expatiated so eloquently on the back of the tourist map about Lebanon 's hospitality , security and stability , is widely believed to have participated in the machine-gun massacre of members of the rival Douaihy family near the town of Zghorta in 1957 . |
| 21 | I always do sit with my hands in my pockets , except when I am in the company of my sisters , my cousins , or my aunts ; and they kick up such a shindy — I should say expostulate so eloquently on the subject — that I have to give up and take them out — my hands I mean . ’ |
| 22 | Disappointed , though , that it had so little capacity , that the machine 's power was squandered so liberally on the user interface rather than running the applications . |
| 23 | One reason , for example , why the Falklands issue figured so infrequently on the agenda of the Cabinet 's Oversea and Defence Committee before the Argentine invasion of April 1982 is that Lord Carrington , then Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary , disliked bringing Foreign Office business before committee meetings of his colleagues . |
| 24 | In considering mentally disordered people 's needs , we have focused so far on the individual rather than on the family . |
| 25 | Thus the research so far on the origin of parish churches leads us to suspect that a lot of early churches disappeared in the reforms and rationalisations of the early Middle Ages . |
| 26 | The emphasis which has been placed so far on the curriculum is intentional . |
| 27 | Given my concentration so far on the possession/separation issue , and its relation to the circulation process , and given my earlier insistence that economic class relations at the level of possession/separation can not be conceived as the underlying ‘ essence ’ of social and political collectivities and movements , which demand analysis in their own right , I am not yet in a position to draw full ‘ political conclusions ’ ( the following chapters will take us some way further in this direction ) . |
| 28 | ‘ Drawn a blank so far on the child porn . |
| 29 | But the stress so far on the division of labour is somewhat one-sided . |
| 30 | British Rail tells us that the 5.51 Sheffield to Paddington train is 15 minutes late this evening , but I 've nothing to report so far on the buses . |