Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | These issues have been termed ‘ politicization ’ , contrary to the founding state 's intentions that the UN agencies should restrict their activities to closely defined and well managed scientific , and technical or so called ‘ functional tasks ’ . |
| 2 | But it 's all for the rest of my life , an important fact for me , and to say , OK , I do n't need it any more , it has to be a very strong and bad change inside Kirov , I will be so upset or so unoptimistic or so helpless that I will feel I can not do anything more . |
| 3 | He saw none of our usual green cucumbers for sale , the Dutch preferring a long , white , prickly variety , not as watery or so full of seeds . |
| 4 | Many of Morse 's ideas were either so strange or so wildly improbable that most of them were always doomed to early disappointment . |
| 5 | And the effect for Locke is this , and again I , I quote the legislative being only a fiduciary power , that is to say a power based on trust a fiduciary power to act for certain ends , there remains still in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the legislative when they find the legislative act contrary to the trust imposed in them and thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of every body even if their legislators whenever they shall be so foolish or so wicked as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject . |
| 6 | The effector processes become slower and less powerful but these effects are not so marked or so consistent . |
| 7 | She had seldom felt so old or so tired or so wretched . |
| 8 | Richard was born in 1862 in Thwaite and when he was twenty years old or so he left Swaledale to work for a London publishing firm . |
| 9 | Barbs is n't so old or so smelly , but she reminds me of him . ’ |
| 10 | So um again this is um looking at er y'know people when they 're very young y'know sort of one year old , two years old or so . |
| 11 | The ‘ average ’ broodmare then has an ‘ average ’ of one foal every two years until she is 14 years old or so — the average age when she completes her duties . |
| 12 | This time I studied it in good sunlight , because some of the colours are so dim or so dark that one can hardly see what the pattern is all about . |
| 13 | But , however genuine the prospects of trade with the South Seas might have seemed , especially when enhanced by the right to sell slaves to the Spanish colonies granted at the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 , it is clear that so hugely capitalised a new incorporation was also intending to contest with the " big two " — the Bank of England and the East India Company — for the profits which came from dealing in the national debt . |
| 14 | Of course , the mortgage market today is neither so generous nor so vague . |
| 15 | However you do the sums , the levy is clearly there to pay for history ; the Select Committee said it is ‘ indefensible that so much of the burden of discharging the pre-April 1990 liabilities should be placed on electricity consumers within one eight-year period ’ . |
| 16 | Instead it would be an expression of preferences , indicated by putting the figure 1 opposite the name of the first-preferred candidate , the figure 2 opposite the name of the second-preferred and so on . |
| 17 | Boullee demonstrated one aspect of vision and I mention it because it is so clear and so obvious . |
| 18 | The girl 's voice in her ear startled her ; it was so clear and so close . |
| 19 | Whether or not this is so , the importance of the military is clear and so is the reason for its close consultation on policy for both strategic and economic reasons . |
| 20 | The rampant desire she glimpsed in his eyes was so clear and so fierce that she felt her breath catch in her throat . |
| 21 | The thin , external walls of the chimneys are porous and so oxygen from the outside atmosphere diffuses in . |
| 22 | Willis presents evidence to show that his competence is cumulative and so ‘ makes it sensible to speak of the working class not as an abstract group of those who share similar interests but as an organic whole with real and used inner connections ’ ( Willis , 1976 ) . |
| 23 | It 's pouring down with rain , bitterly cold , extremely muddy and so far only half the PA 's turned up . |
| 24 | She was superstitious and so am I. ’ |
| 25 | In a national quota sample , fifty constituencies might be selected at random , and then quotas set within each constituency on age , sex and employment status : interviewers would then have to find so many women , so many unemployed and so many young people . |
| 26 | In the better quota samples , such quotas are interlocked : the interviewer is told how many young housewives , how many male unemployed and so on to interview . |
| 27 | Some women did not perceive themselves as unemployed and so felt it was not legitimate to register . |
| 28 | Although these areal units will alter less with time than administrative units , they are nonetheless transitory and so , ideally , smaller and more permanent units like kilometre grid squares should be used , as they have been by the OPCS in a limited fashion , as the basic building block . |
| 29 | Indeed , the pineal of a New Zealand reptile known as the tuatara is pigmented and so close to the surface that it looks similar to a real eye . |
| 30 | This standard ensures the unit is waterproof and so prevents an accidental , and potentially fatal , combination of water and electricity . |