Example sentences of "[vb base] [noun] so [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under normal atmospheric pressure gases attenuate sound so rapidly that they are useless as a coupling medium for acoustic microscopes , but under pressure the picture rapidly improves . |
| 2 | Why is it that Eastern peoples acquire languages so easily while we in the West make such heavy weather of it ? |
| 3 | But this was not the main reason why women like Mina give birth so frequently or so young . |
| 4 | They like foreigners so much that they dispute with one another as to who shall have and treat a foreigner in his house . |
| 5 | Institutions are viewed as expressions of collective purposes which maintain vitality so long as they are able to maintain a clear sense of purpose . |
| 6 | Or , to put it the other way round , affines only remain friends so long as they remain affines ; they are bonded together by political alliance rather than by common substance , and , if the parties concerned want to maintain that alliance , they must repeatedly reaffirm that bonding by the appropriate exchange of imperishable valuables of a visible and identifiable kind . |
| 7 | It would be impossible to persuade anyone to act as trustee unless the discretion entrusted to him were very liberally conferred , and it is now possible for a trustee to delegate to an agent , not merely pieces of business requiring especial skill , but the whole business of the trust , and escape liability so long as he acts in good faith . |
| 8 | It seems to me that they all have implications so far as people 's lives are concerned — their activities , their rewarding work , in a sense . |
| 9 | If taxes are raised to finance the spending , the policy will still be expansionary and so reduce unemployment so long as the taxes raised do not exceed the increase in government spending by a certain amount . |