Example sentences of "so [adv] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had guided the complex and nerve-wracking work of the international organisation so deftly and with such insight that it was hard to imagine anyone else measuring up to the job . |
| 2 | He was surprised that the memory should have come back so keenly and at such a moment . |
| 3 | Indeed , our understanding of the technique that is now used so widely and with such serious consequences seems to have made disquietingly little progress since the 1770s , when Franz Anton Mesmer first took Paris by storm with his new , bizarre technique . |
| 4 | However , it may also be that if the clause is drawn so widely as to be capable of applying in unreasonable circumstances , or if it purports to exclude a liability which can not be excluded under the Act , the court may find it unreasonable to apply it to other circumstances ( see Walker v Boyle [ 1982 ] 1 All ER 634 ) . |
| 5 | And perhaps through the drinking he sought to meet his father of whom he spoke so little and to whom it seemed , the older he grew , he meant so little . |
| 6 | At the end of 1864 he went to Bombay to superintend a large land reclamation scheme adjacent to the harbour , which he did so successfully that in 1873 the government of India formed the Bombay Port Trust with Ormiston as chief engineer . |
| 7 | Roger said : ‘ Having heard so much about TNT while I was in Australia I am pleased to see it working so successfully and in particular I am glad to see a continuation of product supply into the sales organisation as a direct result of TNT principles . ’ |
| 8 | A boxer before the war , Charles Nungesser had been smashed up so badly that by the time of Verdun he had to be lifted bodily into the cockpit and could only use one leg on the rudder controls . |
| 9 | Crocker had damaged the Midland so badly that in 1986 the Bank of England sent in Sir Kit McMahon , its deputy governor , as chairman and chief executive to sort things out . |
| 10 | He was looking down at her so fondly and with such deep understanding that she was encouraged to go on . |
| 11 | MORE THAN 98% OF THOSE WHO DRINK ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES DO SO SENSIBLY AND WITHOUT HARM TO THEMSELVES . |
| 12 | He liked marriage so much that despite all the difficulties of his first attempt , when he met you he decided to try it again . |
| 13 | " Nowhere " , he wrote , is there so much and at the same time so little centralization as there is in Russia . |
| 14 | Coming back to the family after being away for so long except for short periods , Joe saw them with new eyes . |
| 15 | It matters not that those others sought , however strongly , to persuade the patient to refuse , so long as in the end the refusal represented the patient 's independent decision . |
| 16 | Obviously , an employee is free to apply for another position even with a rival of his present employer , or to find premises in which to set up a future business so long as in doing so he is not in breach of any valid express term in his employment contract : see Searle ( GD ) & Co Ltd v Celltech Ltd [ 1982 ] FSR 92 . |
| 17 | ‘ We support the struggles of each nation to live its own life , so long as in pursuit of its aims it uses methods which do not violate the conscience and the dignity of any of its citizens . ’ |
| 18 | If Norman Lamont keeps the job of Chancellor ( and he might do so only because of the shortlist of alternative candidates is embarrassingly short ) he may decide to delay the next cut in interest rates for long enough to convince the markets that he is serious about wanting to move sterling into narrow bands in the European exchange rate mechanism at its middle rate of Dm2.95 . |
| 19 | This in fact became so only because of the policies Wilson adopted in the way of providing arms to the other side , for which there was insufficient compensation from the rather half-hearted support given by the Soviets and by a few other countries to the Biafrans . |
| 20 | The General Council of British Shipping quotes a survey as reporting that those ships which had been found to use the Minches route had done so only because of poor weather conditions . |
| 21 | The wind came so swiftly that within half an hour we were reducing sail , taking water over the deck , and beginning to lumber into a building seaway . |
| 22 | Haig came to believe that what had once been achieved , so swiftly and at relatively little cost , might be repeated . |
| 23 | Make the most of your features , but do so naturally and with style . |
| 24 | certain of the elements combine so naturally and with so powerful an effect that we pursue that path of combination as a path in its own right and forget about the problem we are trying to solve . |
| 25 | Sexism rarely manifests itself so grotesquely as in the cohabitation rule , and hostility to it among feminists is virtually unanimous . |
| 26 | Progressive rock was GLOBAL , selling hugely , gawped at in stadia ( the ‘ ant-like figures onstage ’ ) , disseminated so broadly as to be rootless and meaningless . |
| 27 | The thought that the country might attempt suicide once again , so soon and by much the same means as last time , is almost too painful to contemplate . |
| 28 | The fact that we can read all of these photographic versions of reality so easily and with such conviction is perhaps not the least astonishing feature of photography now . |
| 29 | If a trailer begins to ‘ snake ’ , the swinging often develops so quickly that within seconds there is no way of stopping it and avoiding going right off the road . |
| 30 | ‘ The Federation grew so quickly that in 1962 provincial councils were established to cater for the influx of new clubs . |