Example sentences of "so [adv] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wayne Larkins did not begin quite so strikingly but was an undeniably happy man . |
| 2 | TNO vice-president Arthur Rörsch says that the government is pleased that the centre is valued so highly but that , ‘ against a background of budget cuts , with health budgets particularly under fire , it is not really easy to be optimistic ’ . |
| 3 | Frank , I think , had spoken to him about not taking everything that was said so personally but to learn how to ride the ups and downs , the vicissitudes , of theatre . ’ |
| 4 | He was certain that Scarlet would never behave so irrationally but could not quite rid himself of the image of the breakfast table . |
| 5 | If the vulnerable organic layers did not exist teeth would not rot so easily but then they would be brittle and would probably break early in life . |
| 6 | Take off cabinet doors : leave them off altogether for an open shelved look ; replace them with new louvred or wooden doors with beading ; replace them with glazed doors , or hang curtains in front of shelves instead ( PVC fabric curtains wo n't pick up dirt so easily but cotton is cheaper and easier to wash ) . |
| 7 | ‘ Everything collapsed so quickly but things can change for the better in just as short a space a time . |
| 8 | It was all over so quickly but I was completely terrified . |
| 9 | forty percent of her time because she does it so quickly but er oh |
| 10 | Both in Pilton and in present day er Pilton Circus which is er er there 's a lot of er controversy going over er m making them , privatizing them and so forth but I l I was er the building of these things and did all the er the work for them . |
| 11 | Now because the government has a , plays a much bigger role in the economy the government will be in charge of what you might think of as industrial employment so er a lot of manufacturing , heavy industry er mining so on and so forth will be run as a national as a national industry , right and er wages in that nationalized industry will not be er set at market levels but will be set at , by some institutional mechanism that wo n't reflect demand and supply or reflect the rent seeking and rent server rent preserving behaviour of civil servants and government quangos er so on and so forth but you must bear in mind that the government sector will er the public and semi public sector in developing countries is vast in comparison to er to develop the countries and as a result wages set in er in the government sector er will erm will be the driving force for all industrial employment , so what with wages and industrial employment . |
| 12 | I would say that the five advantages of our alternative draft is that er it makes it clear that the policy applies to land outside the national parks and so forth but with less repetition than the proposal put forward by the county council . |
| 13 | It is on the face of it a very simple amendment to a quite a small and in some sense insignificant piece of legislation that is n't , erm I hope members would agree that by changing that piece of legislation to say that if you 're a trader you must display who you are and how people can get hold of you if the have a problem about products they buy from you , will not be too burdensome erm in these days of deregulation and so forth but on the other hand would help enforcements considerably and would also enable people to pursue their own remedies where they are dissatisfied with what they bought . |
| 14 | Ronald Reagan er was the master of persuasion both through er his control and , and , and confidence on television and so forth but also in one to one conversations with er cabinet members or with er members of congress or whoever . |
| 15 | I mean yes of course we should live harmoniously together er who would y'know , sector of those people who have taken advantage of the right to buy and and so on and so forth but we talking about housing management in about housing management costs and if you have an estate of y'know being repaired similar houses which a lot of our estates are , it makes sense that they 're managed as it were centrally er and because that 's the most efficient way of doing it erm if you have a variety of different landlords in er one estate or one street and all the houses are similar , when it comes to things like modernisation and so forth it it 's duplicated a great deal of er er er of work and it is not cost efficient and it does n't make any common sense at all . |
| 16 | Harry was a little worried to see the water supply diminishing so rapidly but was pleased that Lucy was enjoying herself . |
| 17 | Human activities , now , are upsetting this dialogue , and we will look at how we are changing the atmosphere , ever so slightly but none the less crucially , in ways that could endanger all of life . |
| 18 | 12.01 am , Richmond and Barnes : For the Liberal Democrats the story in Richmond and Barnes has so far been ‘ so near but yet so far ’ . |
| 19 | Fred Couples , the Americans ' man of the season so far but who did not play last week , has gone back to the top amid a wholesale reshuffle . |
| 20 | He had failed in this so far but then he had hardly tried very hard . |
| 21 | Brushes with the law : Pretty clean so far but what was in the ciggy in that old News of The Screws photo ? |
| 22 | Well over £1m has gone into the project so far but exact figures are not available . |
| 23 | On Sotheby 's activities in Berlin he was candid about the difficulties experienced by this ‘ very interesting experiment ’ so far but felt that the company could build on the pool of new private ( West ) German buyers that had emerged from the sales . |
| 24 | He said that intellect took one so far but could not take one the whole way . |
| 25 | Jane for two years she 's enjoyed the course so far but she thinks |
| 26 | It was the worst raid so far but Maureen who had not yet returned to driving was with her mother in the shelter and Anne , who finished work at ten o'clock , had reached home , dodging from shelter to shelter . |
| 27 | Only in small things so far but Dexter was sure , thinking back to the taut image of the man sitting on his sofa the previous night , that he was lying about bigger things as well . |
| 28 | slip through the net so far but they 've got to be done . |
| 29 | we 'd , we 'd tie , we 'd tie a wire round the pole and heave that up you see so far but you could n't pull the chain up . |
| 30 | He had n't done a bad job of dictating her actions so far but that did n't mean it had to continue . |