Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Comfortable and friendly , it is a broader , homelier version of the ‘ Queen Anne ’ style , which had been conceived over thirty years earlier by the great Richard Norman Shaw , and which eventually became so settled and familiar in suburban streets throughout England . |
| 2 | O'Boyle eventually became so worried by the secret nature of |
| 3 | Then came the loudest crash so far . |
| 4 | Now he he 's got ta find somewhere to go so where 's the only p place that 's clear ? |
| 5 | The Council indicated a few limited examples of such circumstances ( e.g. to the newly baptized in a Mass following their baptism ) , but here again , once admitted , the essential rightness of Communion under both kinds became more and more widely recognized so that communion is now so given at all Masses in many churches and dioceses throughout the world . |
| 6 | I do n't think I 've ever experienced a recording which has so intensely provoked so many of my emotions . |
| 7 | No adult insect can produce silk , so these ants bring young larvae to the site , holding them between their jaws and giving them little squeezes so that the larvae will produce their silk . |
| 8 | He 's a very bright man , Michael Howard , but it 's quite clear that he 's much more concerned with grabbing the headlines and finding scapegoats , than with taking action through law that will actually improve the chance , both of preventing crime and of detecting crime , and then even more so , deterring people from re-offending , and it 's most distressing to see that when research showed that a particular non-custodial method of punishment is effective in perhaps fifty or seventy or eighty percent of cases , whereas prison is not , he goes for prison , he goes for picking on squatters , he goes for picking on the defendants right to silence so that we can see more people like er , jailed when they were innocent . |
| 9 | Galadriel Hopkins had rarely come so close to begging . |
| 10 | Rarely has so important a constitutional bill staggered towards enactment so inelegantly . |
| 11 | Sadly , the bar had closed and the staff had long since departed so the celebration pint of bitter had to be put on ice for another day . |
| 12 | By the turn of this century they were plentiful in Scotland , eventually becoming so numerous that commercial foresters regarded them as vermin because of their liking for pine buds and needles ( a trait which , according to gourmets , makes them taste strongly of turpentine ) . |
| 13 | Gouzenko had obvious reasons for perpetuating this myth and was always astute enough to embroider his story with whatever facts the listener wanted to hear , eventually becoming so vain that even he did not know what was truth or fiction . |
| 14 | As in Provence in southern France , links with the Roman tradition were never wholly severed so that arches , arcades , entablatures , columns and capitals tend to approach the classical form more than the Medieval . |
| 15 | For example , accidents in residential areas are widely dispersed so that the key is to find low-cost measures which cover the entire residential area rather than specific accident black-spots . |
| 16 | To her delight he even took to discussing his work with her , and Leonora listened , rapt , utterly fascinated by glimpses of the other , professional Penry Vaughan she secretly found so impressive . |
| 17 | ‘ Though the mechanics of it are so arranged so that on every odd hour the water plays and the fountain dances in snatches of classical music . ’ |
| 18 | It is assumed that within a single erosional system all elements of the topography are mutually adjusted so that they are downwasting at the same rate . |
| 19 | ‘ And when he got to the last slide , ’ Channell recalled , ‘ he suddenly became so powerfully emotive it was just like his whole spirit exploded . |
| 20 | Or coming back with bruises ; how you suddenly became so very clumsy or so easily marked . |
| 21 | I can not say why I suddenly became so curious about him . |
| 22 | The policies pursued by Leeds LEA before 1985 — lower than average per capita spending on primary education , higher than average pupil-teacher ratios , a stagnant staffing profile exacerbated by the ring-fence policy on new appointments , little investment in advisory support — played their own part in producing the conditions of which the LEA itself suddenly became so critical . |
| 23 | This is insufficient to explain why radical protest suddenly became so salient in the late 1960s . |
| 24 | One who saw both camps preparing for the talks says : ‘ It was all arranged so that Diana could stay more or less on her terms . |
| 25 | Among the areas of technical interest is the evaluation of GIS software when used with zonal datasets , particularly since this form of information is far more common in the social sciences and ‘ the real world ’ than are the digital mapping and remote sensing datasets for which GIS is most highly developed so far . |
| 26 | After all , I can only eat so much of the same thing . |
| 27 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that one of the most important subjects on which he obviously made so much progress with President Yeltsin was that of non-proliferation ? |
| 28 | ‘ This only aroused so much attention because of the press reports that we were meeting the Broederbond . ’ |
| 29 | But it only goes so far . |
| 30 | ‘ You can only experience so much fame , ’ he says . |