Example sentences of "[vb base] so [adv] " in BNC.

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1 As we have said , it 's not always possible to pin down the exact reason for Cystitis attacks , or why some women suffer so repeatedly .
2 So , ironically , while we prayed that rain would not blight our sale , we worked to help those who suffer so terribly from lack of rain .
3 Could this be because medics themselves suffer so grievously from the complaint , that they do not wish to talk or write about it ?
4 No other hypocrites in Shakespeare gain so much so quickly , so easily , and can afford to drop pretence so fast .
5 We are delighted our own staff and the residents have given their effort , time and cash so generously . ’
6 I repeat again in 1992 our major aim as a business is to improve the service we sell so well ; that we provide to our customers .
7 Doubt about its legality was finally resolved by section 310 of the Companies 1989 Act which said companies may protect their directors and officers from the costs of liability for negligence , default , breach of duty or trust so long as this is declared in the annual directors ' report .
8 It can hardly be coincidental that these remarkable evolutionary events , taking place within only a few million years , correspond so closely in time with an episode of exceptional igneous and urogenic activity ( Larsen & Pitman , 1972 ) , the rapid disintegration of Pangaea ( Hallam , 1980 ) and the biggest marine transgression since the mid-Palaeozoic , apparently produced either by a phase of accelerated sea-floor spreading or by a dramatic increase in the length of the ocean ridge system .
9 AFTER THEIR recent eponymous chart success , northern bleep boys LFO have set their hands to a remix of the BOTANY 5 cut ‘ Lovebomb ’ , which they 've approached with an excitement and verve so often lacking from more established remixers ' work .
10 AFTER THEIR recent eponymous chart success , northern bleep boys LFO have set their hands to a remix of the BOTANY 5 cut ‘ Lovebomb ’ , which they 've approached with an excitement and verve so often lacking from more established remixers ' work .
11 Let's have a defence review so both the military and the industries are prepared for change when it comes . ’
12 Approach to the edge of Christian reference was here deliberate , as one can tell from the date Gandalf so carefully gives for the fall of Sauron ( 111 , 230 ) , ‘ the twenty-fifth of March ’ .
13 Accordingly when Bilbo and Frodo say they will pursue it , eagerly or wearily , till it is intersected by other roads , lives , wishes , and will then continue into the unknown , if they can , they are expressing a mixture of doubt and determination — exactly the qualities Gandalf so often recommends .
14 These emotions and conditions then that men fear so greatly are really very sweet and delightful .
15 I fear so very much .
16 She dressed soberly , changed her clothes less often , coiled her long dark hair into its usual long glossy package which lay so neatly upon her neck .
17 And so it was that he gained his passport to that respectability which lay so easily on his shoulders by the time his picture was painted : he would be apprenticed .
18 She was grateful not only to be with her aunt and uncle in that last year , but to be near Ernest and Charlotte so that they could discuss , usually when the older couple had gone to bed , the life which lay so tantalisingly before them .
19 Things change so fast .
20 Since the rates of State benefits and income from various types of investments change so frequently , there is little point in quoting figures , but it will be important for you to know how to gather the up-to-date , accurate information .
21 Furthermore , it could be possible to update locally certain factors in the Jarman index more regularly , especially unemployment rates , which change so rapidly .
22 Down here my moods change so rapidly .
23 ‘ I expect that to be the same this time , but a fortnight away from Russia is a long time and things change so quickly , ’ said the bespectacled runner .
24 She had never known anyone 's manner change so quickly .
25 That they remain so wonderingly wide-eyed in a business sold on cynicism is nothing less than miraculous .
26 Because they are so pervasive , and because their subordinate terms remain so powerfully denigrated , the erotics of active/passive should not be identified as coextensive with masculine/feminine , and should not be thought identical across the hetero/homosexual divide .
27 Traditional beer and pubs have been under threat for decades — and remain so today .
28 They remain so today despite the appearance of bigger and more powerful hunters which have compelled them to be more circumspect in their behaviour .
29 One reason why farm workers ' wages remain so comparatively low is that the demand for labour within agriculture has been declining as a result of mechanization-Indeed , the prospect of more expensive labour has often been sufficient to stimulate farmers to engage in a further round of mechanization so that both the supply and the demand for labour have chased each other down in an ever-decreasing spiral .
30 If the institutions remain so determinedly uninvolved , those who seek radical solutions will have to look elsewhere , possibly to an independent regulator who would appoint auditors and fix their remuneration .
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