Example sentences of "so [adj] [verb] " 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 | I 've got a Congress fund which , I mean today it 's getting so dear to go to Congress erm you know , the hotels are so dear . |
| 3 | Why is it so pleasant to walk down a particular street , drive through a country village with its church , cottages and farms , or visit a country house and gardens ? |
| 4 | Another Secte Rouge blocked Mortimer 's path , however , and no one else was in position to attack Carrefour , so Ace slammed a magazine into her Browning and fired a couple of shots . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Interpretation so broad seems to have needed the sanction of the legislator . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It seemed so odd to think that they did n't know . |
| 9 | The media ( and your average punter ) are so narrow minded and stupid they cant see past the hype and stereotype . |
| 10 | And it 's nice you know , and I was brought up so narrow minded . |
| 11 | The search for cheap but reliable mass screening tests and accurate diagnostic algorithms has so far been fruitless , so case-finding based on clinical suspicion will continue to be the most important strategy . |
| 12 | So eight add two eight nine ten . |
| 13 | So strong had sympathy with the Communists grown among the active membership that the NAC was instructed , against its wishes , " to approach the Communist International with a view to ascertaining in what way the ILP may assist in the work of the International " . |
| 14 | So strong have been the influences here — of progressivism with its romantic view of childhood 's vision , of anti-industrialism , of egalitarianism which has democratized art in every form , of therapy — that the great majority of educators wish to encourage pupils ' growth through creativity . |
| 15 | Indeed , so strong have the differential views on advantageous locations become that one recent assessment of the total stock of foreign capital in developing countries suggests that it is less today than it was in 1900 , measured in relation to GNP ( Maddison , 1990 ) . |
| 16 | There is always a moment of silence before the audience respond , so strong has been the tension . |
| 17 | When Awlad Amira took control of the popular committees a few months later , ousting Mannaia from office , Umar al-Abairsh and his supporters alleged that they could have done so only with Tibbu support ; they said only Awlad Amira , poor and unenterprising , would stoop so low to get their hands on the administration : Awlad Amira denied establish the truth of such allegations : Awlad Amira denied them , as they would ; Tibbu pointed to their political inactivity , their poverty and lack of numbers , and their peacefulness ( except under provocation ) , suggesting that Mannaia were scarcely dispassionate when they talked about the results of elections . |
| 18 | does not explain why the rate of investment and innovation in British industry were so low to begin with . |
| 19 | Patients are so grateful to get treated they do not complain or get taken seriously . |
| 20 | It was a typical loner 's situation — the depressive who , though wanting to be alone , worried about having no one around and was so grateful to feel wanted . |
| 21 | ‘ I feel so guilty lying around out here in the Caribbean , while you 're ill , and Charles and Dad are worried out of their minds ! ’ |
| 22 | Hinchley and Pickering kept the wingers quiet , so Posh had to attack up the middle . |
| 23 | So , er , she 's getting ever so grubby looking now , I reckon very soon we 'll gon na have to talk about getting some more er covers . |
| 24 | All of which made it impossible to explain exactly why she 'd been so upset to find , after arriving , tired and exhausted , at the large house in Lowndes Square , that she was going to see even less of Ross than she had in New York ? |
| 25 | He was so engrossed studying . |
| 26 | It just would be so awful to move our lovely trees cos they 're all so , so dependent , that 's it ! |
| 27 | It 's so refreshing to see a motley crew of urchins , trendies and ravers like Sunscreem making total unself-conscious idiots of themselves on a stage instead of prancing and preening like twats . |
| 28 | Over these erm past couple of weeks we 've been looking at er some of the questions in the New Testament , we thought a couple of weeks back of the question that Jesus asked his disciples , do you think I 'm able to do this and then last week we looked at a question that the disciples put to Jesus , that time when they came down from the mountain and they found the re , three of them came down with Jesus from the mountain of transfiguration and they found the other disciples with a man who and a , whose son was demon possessed and er they had been unable to help him and the man or brings his son to Jesus and Jesus delivers him and afterwards the disciples who had been so helpless put the question to Jesus , why could we not cast out this demon and this morning I 'd like us to look at another question , we 've got another one today and one God willing next week , er and the question is , is found in Luke chapter thirteen , let me just read a few verses , because of course it 's , it 's not just the questions , it 's the answers that are important as well in Luke chapter thirteen , gon na read from verse twenty two it says in Jesus was passing through from one city and village to another , teaching and proceeding on his way to Jerusalem now that gives us a clue in that , because Jesus only ever went to Jerusalem apart from when he was a boy , he only ever went to Jerusalem once and that , after since that time , and that was when he was crucified , so Jesus was now on his way to Jerusalem , it was the latter days , the latter weeks of the life of Jesus , he was making his way now to Jerusalem and someone said to him Lord are there just a few who are being saved and Jesus said to hi , to them , strive to enter by the narrow door for many I tell you will seek to enter and will not be able , once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open to us , then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you are from , then you will begin to say we ate and drank in your presence and you taught in our streets , and he will say I tell you I do not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers , there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth there , when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the profits in the kingdom of God , but yourselves being cast out and they will come from East and West and from North and South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , and behold some ar some are last who will be first and some are first who will be last , so it 's just that question then , let's remind ourselves that is put to Jesus Lord are there just a few who are being saved |
| 29 | I 'm so sorry to cause such a lot of trouble but I did n't know what else to do . ’ |
| 30 | I 'm so sorry to put you to all this trouble . ’ |