Example sentences of "so [adv] [be] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Another reason I like Dorset so much is for the windsurfing .
2 The boy who had carried our bags up to our room so eagerly was of course a boatman .
3 we 'll show you now how to put on a pressure bandage for severe bleeding and then we 'll put the film on and you can see the whole lot again , okay , so just be in the room if you just push and push and push on the window and er the hand has gone through the window , right , and there 's no glass imbedded but it 's cut right across the palm and the reason that we show you this one is because the artery that feeds all these fingers comes and the thumb comes up in an arch like that okay , so the artery comes down , up in an arch across the palm of the hand , so the fingers and thumb all get a blood supply , so when you cut the palm of your hand there is a lot of blood pumping out , okay , so what 's the first thing I 'd tell her to do ?
4 If all is relative , then protest against racism , sexism and so forth is at root an arbitrary subjective one — why should n't somebody be racist if all is a matter of mere opinion or expediency ?
5 Barrow said : ‘ I 've had talks with both players but they are being paid by Preston until July so understandably are in no hurry to make up their minds .
6 The observations so far are with programs where the designer had not concentrated on this aspect at all , but it seems very hopeful that valuable work in this area can be developed .
7 The effects of these changes in agricultural techniques so far are by no means catastrophic for birds , perhaps because the limited availability of bushy nesting cover in predominantly arable areas has controlled the number of many common passerines below the levels the potential food supply could support .
8 Much of the focus has so far been on integration , instigated predominantly by non-Disabled people , as a mean for all sections of the community to be involved on an equal basis , in a way which does not differentiate between the intention of this approach is genuine , in practice it often transmutes into another form of exclusion and discrimination .
9 Implicatures that are " triggered " in this unostentatious way , simply by the assumption that the maxims are being observed , have so far been of the greater interest to linguists .
10 The existence of this ring had been inferred after the fly-by of Pioneer 11 in 1974 , which was the second of four spacecraft that have so far been to Jupiter .
11 The human rights organization Amnesty International reported on Nov. 12 that in 1992 there had so far been at least 100 murders of unarmed civilians , many of whom had first been threatened , detained or tortured , in south-eastern Turkey and that political killings were continuing " virtually daily " .
12 This account has so far been in partial equilibrium terms .
13 And th and and what I did is , all Roger 's got so far is about one sheet of A four typed up or something like
14 But the picture so far is of less than total transformation .
15 The portrayal so far is of national politics painted with a broad brush , giving a picture lacking in definition and detail .
16 Section 426(4) of the Act of 1986 envisages co-operation between United Kingdom courts and the insolvency courts of other countries , but the only order made so far is of limited application : see the Co-operation of Insolvency Courts ( Designation of Relevant Countries and Territories ) Order 1986 ( S.I .
17 If the flavour of his text so far is to be believed , Bozzy was as much a soldiering man as Coleridge , which is saying less than very little .
18 ‘ The funniest request I have had so far is for a birthday cake which is made to look like a plate of steak and chips with cutlery on a tabletop setting . ’
19 Although the only agreement covering hardware so far is with Pyramid , the software runs on a variety of Unix servers , so customers will be able to choose their hardware vendor .
20 Much of the craftsmanship and its relevant technologies considered so far is in marked contrast to the most common of artefacts , pottery .
21 The clearest way to focus the questions raised so far is by posing the level-of-analysis problem with more care .
22 Probably the most useful study so far is by Bainbridge & Genoves ( 1956 ) .
23 The one that he 's done so far was at the end of December and erm he is going to do one to the end of March and that 's going to be a regular thing .
24 Larger numbers have been recorded , and the highest winter count so far was of 1,625 on 9 December 1972 , of which 1,400 were in Chichester Harbour , the largest winter flock ever recorded in Sussex ; higher numbers have been noted during autumn migration .
25 Throughout the autumn the great majority of Spotted Redshanks in Sussex are found at Thorney Island , where flocks of 30 to 60 birds have been an annual occurrence since 1965 ; the highest count so far was of 69 there on 8 August 1967 .
26 The highest numbers of the year occur in September , when flocks totalling 3,000 or more are not unusual in these Harbours ; the highest count so far was of 4,200 on 5 September 1971 .
27 You , my lady , will be here with us but for a short time , I understand — so pray be at ease , and treat this as your own abode . ’
28 But they remained essential to him , perhaps because his life had so often been at stake .
29 Women have so often been in situations of powerlessness and dependence that any system of belief or programme of action that could count as ‘ feminist ’ must in some way see this as a central concern .
30 Lists of the so-called Anti-Reformers or Boroughmongers were set out in the radical press , and as the electors were so few and were persons of standing , their views were really known in advance and the outcome could be predicted accurately — contrary to the modern opinion polls which so often are at variance with the result .
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