Example sentences of "so [adv] [conj] it [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It would have to be a very small stone , but I would do so gladly if it binds you to me . ’ |
| 2 | I wanted our collaboration , strange as it was , to continue for eve ; , just so long as it kept him beside me . |
| 3 | Well , it 's all Greek to me , but so long as it keeps him happy . ’ |
| 4 | Run it well , so long as it pleases you . |
| 5 | The actual nature of the game is not important so long as it focuses your attention effectively , distracting you from your negative thoughts or your symptoms . |
| 6 | Yet this very claim for monarchy implies a limitation : the irrational and reverential institution is to be tolerated so long as it serves its function . |
| 7 | Women who entered voluntary work during the inter-war years did so largely because it provided them with a diversion from household routine . |
| 8 | Albert had spoken so calmly that it made her calm too . |
| 9 | As she returned to her nest , looking around her , she could see it so clearly that it made her laugh . |
| 10 | Their publication was a speculation which — so far as it made me known & procured me employment in Zoological drawing — answered my expectations — but in matters of money occasioned me considerable loss . |
| 11 | Wealth is only desirable in so far as it enables them to indulge in litigation , and the height of their ambition is to succeed in a case , especially if thereby their enemy is punished . ’ |
| 12 | the relative informality and openness of literature teaching , its disinclination to impose judgements or dictate pre-given conclusions , itself constitutes a determinate discursive regime , constrained by its own rules , limits and positionalities : a regime that can be characterised as " liberal " in so far as it imposes itself not by insisting on the positional authority of the teacher , nor by compelling assent to a given and explicit curriculum of knowledge , but by inviting a voluntary recognition of the existence , purpose and value of a " subject " : Literature itself . |
| 13 | The tolerance of adults is important only in so far as it allows them to feed high on the shore , exposed to rain . |
| 14 | Whilst other sections of the population are clearly severely affected by these government policies , disabled people experience these particular ‘ reforms ’ as an attack on their human right not to be incarcerated without trial and conviction , in so far as it renders it in some cases impossible to live outside institutions . |
| 15 | Yet , in so far as it constituted his baptism as a politician , it is crucial to an understanding of his political career . |
| 16 | As strategic proposals emerge , each subsystem will evaluate them against developments in other subsystems , in so far as it perceives them to affect it too . |
| 17 | While it is certain that it was always possible to approach Napoleon III via a courtier , the real intermediaries between the Emperor and the outside world , in so far as it necessitated his personal intervention , were those employed in what was called the Civil Cabinet . |
| 18 | In so far as it explained his personal ideology to the French people , it may be regarded as the first speech of de Gaulle the politician , as opposed to de Gaulle the symbol . |
| 19 | The Revolution had impinged on their consciousness only in so far as it provided them with land , or took away foodstuffs during War Communism . |
| 20 | Despite the fact that the majority of students in adult education are women , the majority of volunteers , part-time workers , detached workers , and assistant workers in adult education are women , those with key jobs in the career structure — mostly men — made no recognition of this fact , except in so far as it influenced their assumptions about ‘ relevant ’ curricula and enabled them to plan programmes which depended upon an enormous amount of female exploitation . |
| 21 | The meaning of a given sentence , so far as it has one , is not some determinate characteristic which it carries around with it . |
| 22 | The edition for 1605 , no longer extant , was said to have foretold the Gunpowder Plot so accurately that it brought him under suspicion of complicity . |
| 23 | The world , apparently , did not feel its shame so strongly that it moved its hand to its wallet . |
| 24 | The whirligig sometimes moves so fast that it overtakes its own ripples , and then any slight slope in the surface alerts it to an obstacle . |
| 25 | She plaited her hair so tightly that it hurt her , straining hair and flesh until it felt as though the white seam down the back of her head might split and the brains gush out . |
| 26 | Albert smiled at her but so sadly that it brought her no comfort . |
| 27 | She shook her head so violently that it hurt her neck . |