Example sentences of "[indef pn] so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why is everyone so coy ? ’ |
| 2 | It is regretted that so many people were unable to obtain a ticket for this game and the committee fully appreciates their keen disappointment ; it was an impossible task to satisfy everyone so great was the demand . |
| 3 | WHY is everyone so upset about the BBC 's Eldorado ? |
| 4 | Everyone so enjoined slaps his dog around the ears , and they all seem to enjoy it . |
| 5 | ‘ Why is everyone so angry ? ’ |
| 6 | The reader will not , however , begrudge the author 's serendipity which , especially at election time , succeeded in extracting for him the following from Smollett 's Humphrey Clinker ( 1771 ) : I know nothing so abject as the behaviour of a man canvassing for a seat in Parliament . |
| 7 | He wanted to drink it and touch it and explore it , for , he thought , surely there can be nothing so magical as the moment when you know , beyond all question , that the woman you desire desires you in return . |
| 8 | Only a dame school it was — nothing so grand as the Academy for Young Ladies Miss Hannah More keeps in Wark Street now — but our teacher , Mrs Ellis , was a great reader and always encouraged us children to have regular reading times . |
| 9 | ‘ Nothing so grand , signorina . |
| 10 | The path that leads to the world 's highest mountain is full of adventures … full of famous stories … but there 's been nothing so grand and gallant as the expedition being planned by Macintyre of Milton Keynes … who cater and care for the mentally disabled … |
| 11 | There was nothing so boring , she thought , as someone who was continually bewailing her lot . |
| 12 | I want as many concise and informed references as you can find , but nothing so technical that I ca n't understand it . ’ |
| 13 | There is nothing so soul-destroying as living from day to day with no purpose . |
| 14 | There is nothing so admirable as a man who applies his knowledge with forceful direction and from his efficiency reaps a profit . |
| 15 | Nothing so absolute as sex . |
| 16 | Nothing so barefaced as that . |
| 17 | ‘ Nothing so little as grace at first , and nothing more glorious afterward : things of greatest perfection are longest in coming to their growth … |
| 18 | ‘ Nothing so elementary , ’ he replied . |
| 19 | Nothing so momentous — or dangerous — has ever before been offered by serious parties at a British election . |
| 20 | No , nothing so useful or interesting is ever included . |
| 21 | nothing so that can |
| 22 | ‘ There is nothing so fascinating as other people 's disputes . ’ |
| 23 | I 've never heard nothing so stupid in my life . |
| 24 | The man would be discovered with his trousers down , revealing nothing so vulgar as a penis . |
| 25 | No , he tried to tell himself , that was n't it ; nothing so mean , nothing so unreasonable . |
| 26 | There would have been a time when most small city streets would have come clearly within the jurisdiction of one parish ; nothing so simple for Brunswick Place — it lay within the civil parish of St Leonards , the municipal ward of Hoxton New Town , the parliamentary borough of Hackney , the urban sanitary district of Hoxton , and the ecclesiastical parish of St John 's . |
| 27 | ‘ Nothing so simple . |
| 28 | Not a ghost — nothing so simple . |
| 29 | There was nothing so simple any more as a line of days leading to this one , or another leading away from it . |
| 30 | Nothing so simple . |