Example sentences of "so [adj] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because the treatments are so specific does that mean to say the possibility of side effects are smaller . |
| 2 | For reasons principally of economy , most county councils have preferred to concentrate development on a few villages which can then conveniently be provided with the full range of public amenities — schools , shops , libraries , sewerage facilities and so on-This saves on the enormous cost of duplicating amenities in every village and helps to direct and contain population growth to a few well-chosen sites . |
| 3 | Interpretation so broad seems to have needed the sanction of the legislator . |
| 4 | I sincerely wish you many happy returns of the season which I can scarcely realise as the winter of England , so odd does it seem to have the thermometer at 99 on Xmas day . |
| 5 | There is always a moment of silence before the audience respond , so strong has been the tension . |
| 6 | Everyone so enjoined slaps his dog around the ears , and they all seem to enjoy it . |
| 7 | Captain Cook material remains in demand as so little survives outside public collections . |
| 8 | First , the absence of specialist alcohol training on qualification courses means there is no emphasis on screening , so little occurs in later practice . |
| 9 | The ‘ state of the art ’ of soil conservation is clearly in a sorry mess : ‘ The need for soil conservation was emphasised by Bennett ( 1955 ) , Jacks and Whyte ( 1939 ) and many others … but so little has been achieved that most recent reports … are virtually undistinguishable in factual content and sentiment from the earlier studies . ’ |
| 10 | The pity is that so little has changed since then . |
| 11 | So little has been heard from Steve Chen 's Supercomputer Systems Inc in the past couple of years that people have been wondering if the company still existed . |
| 12 | So much has been achieved , and yet in many ways so little has changed . |
| 13 | It is ludicrous that so little has been put into it hitherto . |
| 14 | I am dismayed that so little has been done to decentralise , when so many other EC countries have clearly felt the benefits , both economic and political , of taking the decentralised route . |
| 15 | When you 're superhuman , so little seems worth the bother . |
| 16 | Since individual media are competing with one another this is , perhaps , hardly surprising ; but where much of the research is done under the auspices of joint committees representing agencies , advertisers , and media it is slightly frustrating that so little seems to have been achieved . |
| 17 | The Family , the bourgeois white , patriarchal , heterosexual family , wins elections — or so Labour believes — because Labour believes in The Family the way night follows day . |
| 18 | Erm that might have been as well another reason for selling to friends , erm because most of the stuff we bought anyway was new so that does n't really come into it . |
| 19 | So that does n't include any redundancy costs ? |
| 20 | Councillor talked about er spending levels and he may be interested to know that the N U T have done a recent survey of education spending and found to be sixty first out of a hundred L E A's surveyed , so that does n't quite stack up with some of his statistics . |
| 21 | So that does n't present too much of a problem . |
| 22 | Okay well do n't worry do n't worry he ca n't you know just think of something though having said that if you look at the role that you played in the group moving towards the chairman 's style , taking over the group perhaps becoming and you were n't a person that sort of took over and forced your views on everybody but you were certainly up there at the front with and listening to people taking information and manipulating everything that you had to fit what was coming in from everybody so that does show Chairman 's skills , Chairman tendencies |
| 23 | Possibly yes , he kind of like wants to erm move off but then he comes back to it in a minute though , so that does n't quite hold . |
| 24 | So that does n't matter . |
| 25 | and probab er probably Thursday morning as , as well , so I 'll probably have Thursday , Friday maybe Saturday , well , oh I should have , because by working on the games Thursday morning , that 's another three hours , that 's , brings me up to , twenty eight , yes twenty eight er er thirty one and er , I 'll , I 've got class top contacts time in the , in the afternoon , so that does n't count , Friday I 've got class , a two hour class , but er , tt , I 'll be working outside , in fact that class will be cancelled that day , so it 's er , so four hours that 's thirty six er , Saturday forty two , Tuesday erm tt , oh that week I 'll have a six for Wednesday er nine Thursday er twelve for Tuesday another twelve , plus the evening twelve , plus two , plus another six , that 's eight and a half , eighteen , another eighteen hours |
| 26 | Ones we 're really changing are all the quality ones those are the ones we actually audited so that does n't give me any problems . |
| 27 | But , well go now so that does n't really count . |
| 28 | Yeah I so that does n't count . |
| 29 | If , over the years , the balance of probabilities has shifted so that balances previously included as creditors now seem unlikely ever to be paid , it would be appropriate for the balances in question to be removed from creditors , with the corresponding credit in either profit and loss account or , if the sums are material and the adjustment arises from a fundamental error , the profit and loss reserves in the balance sheet . |
| 30 | BELVILLE : Nothing could be called so that belongs to the Countess of Pembroke . |