Example sentences of "so [adv] on [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given that two of the major components in the motor of the present technological progress are profit maximisation and the consolidation of power ( based on the notion of an ever-increasing rate of production and consumption ) it is not surprising that the contradictions manifest themselves so obviously on all sides . |
| 2 | It is inevitable that we think of children at Christmas but , as Father John McCullagh writes so movingly on this page , our thoughts should not stop there . |
| 3 | I could see the General now , sitting so stiffly and so still on that hard chair , with one hand on the bed and the other on his stick . |
| 4 | Secondly , I am impressed by the way in which my right hon. Friends have negotiated so positively on some aspects of the treaties , while at the same time drawing the line so firmly with our European partners on those parts of the treaties that we can not accept . |
| 5 | So far on this journey , except for a moment at Mahanaim , we have been travelling through country we know or can imagine . |
| 6 | Now we 've got four speakers so far on this matter er Chris |
| 7 | England 's management are unhappy about the publicity given to Gooch , Gatting and Smith 's illness because they feel they have taken every precaution necessary so far on this tour — as yesterday 's events prove . |
| 8 | The Conservatives , even allowing for the synthetic optimism manufactured so voluminously on such occasions , have targeted him and are confident of an upset . |
| 9 | As so often on this tour , Rubin Smith and Lamb were the main architects , both playing aggressively after David Smith , flown out to replace the injured Gooch , had hung around for some time to get accustomed to the conditions only to get a bruised thumb in the process . |
| 10 | So often on this project even the oldest locals interested in what I was doing had no memory , actual or handed down , of the people mentioned by JTR . |
| 11 | So even on this minimal change scenario , eliminating the imbalance in tabloid partisanship would be worth a 1 per cent swing to Labour . |
| 12 | Nutritional experts have been criticized in the past for expressing themselves so strongly on this point , but they are unrepentant . |
| 13 | What we have so strongly on this is that there are now over twenty eight thousand |
| 14 | Those who have worked so diligently on this exotic machine should be congratulated for bringing such a magnificent spectacle to the preservation world . |
| 15 | The truth of the matter was expressed by the hon. Member for Aldridge-Brownhills ( Mr. Shepherd ) , who has spoken so well on such questions in recent years and protested each time the Government resorted to fresh guillotine motions . |
| 16 | When I was making runs at Leeds Graham Gooch came up and asked me how on earth I was batting so well on that pitch . |
| 17 | then , then we got the sport and we did n't do so well on that . |
| 18 | Obviously a writer who is happy with ‘ super-refined ’ ( elsewhere he says that Eliot 's ‘ Portrait of a Lady ’ is ‘ extraordinarily sensitized ’ ) is not a critic worth pausing on for long ; and yet when Untermeyer cites all too patent imitations of Eliot 's ‘ Sweeney Among the Nightingales ’ in quatrains by Osbert Sitwell and Herbert Read and Robert Nichols , one can see good reason for him to think that Eliot s reputation , achieved so fast on such a slender body of work , was no more than modish . |
| 19 | ‘ I ca n't leave you , sir , so late on this lonely road , till I see you are fit enough to get on your horse , ’ I insisted . |
| 20 | For had it not been raining so hard on that Tuesday evening I would have arrived at the Philharmonia Hall in good time . |
| 21 | ‘ Roman and I have been working so hard on this business fair , he 's promised to take me away with him when it 's over ! ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Our thanks go to everybody who has worked so hard on this project since 1988 . ’ |
| 23 | Why are we relying so heavily on this arbitrary boundary ? |
| 24 | Siemens has always modelled its mainframe business so closely on that if IBM that it seems inevitable that the growing antipathy towards IBM 's mainframes would rub off on Siemens customers even without the prospect of something approaching depression in Germany : the coincidence of the two strongly implies that once the company finally and painfully gets the ravaged Nixdorf side of the house straight , it will have to repeat the process all over again on the Siemens side . |