Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [vb infin] so [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | You will have heard that if you do stick to a diet and lose weight , then your metabolism will drop so dramatically that the weight piles on all the more easily in the future . |
| 2 | Equilibrium w and M will increase so long as inequality ( 27 ) holds . |
| 3 | During the first few tens of Ma Jupiter would cool so quickly that it hardly matters what the initial temperatures were provided that they were at least a few times 10 000 K. After a few hundred Ma , the exact time depending on the initial temperatures but in any case a small fraction of Jupiter 's lifetime , the rate of cooling would be far less . |
| 4 | If it did , Nuttall and McCormick imply that the costs would rise so substantially as to become prohibitive . |
| 5 | She had never imagined that a kiss could feel like this , that a man 's arms could enclose and shield her so thoroughly against any other awareness , that her body would respond so passionately and so completely from the roots of her hair to the backs of her knees . |
| 6 | All their friends are doing it , and they are aware that never again will they be in the situation where young people of similar ages , interests and academic abilities can mingle so freely and in such numbers . |
| 7 | Yet during family sessions , feelings can rise so quickly that very damaging statements can be made , which may be frank and honest but have a destructive meaning or impact that would not be intended in calmer and more reasonable moments . |
| 8 | How strange , though , that the report running inside my own head can quote so freely and copiously from the report running inside Summerchild 's . |
| 9 | Besides , if Maidstone could predict so accurately when Elsie would appear then it would be a simple matter to find her again — perhaps at the same time tomorrow . |
| 10 | It had seemed a little exaggerated that an elderly woman could move so rapidly and catch a younger man off guard . |
| 11 | How could she possibly expect a girl of Cissie 's years to understand how a woman could love so deeply that there seemed no shame in it at all ? |
| 12 | He wondered anew that the great and glorious power of life could flow so fiercely and endlessly through such a shrivelled and unbeautiful fountainhead . |
| 13 | Share prices could fall so far that his cash offer for DRG , the Basildon Bond company , starts to look attractive . |
| 14 | In regard to smells resulting from the transportation of manure it seems to me that , irrespective of the methods employed , the necessary journeys would occur so infrequently as not to be unduly detrimental to the residential amenities which nearby residents in this rural community could reasonably be expected to enjoy . ’ |
| 15 | Peter would go so far and then no further , till I was bright scarlet from Guthrie 's ministrations and nothing from Peter . |
| 16 | The final stage of the evaporation of a black hole would proceed so rapidly that it would end in a tremendous explosion . |
| 17 | A man will go so far and then he will snap . |
| 18 | Your employer may behave so foolishly or ruthlessly that a sensible settlement of your differences seems impossible . |
| 19 | His insecurity will persist so long as he bottles up change , no matter how well his ruling party behaves . |
| 20 | Such prejudices will flourish so long as hard facts are unavailable , and facts about sex in schools are practically non-existent because no education authority is likely to commission research on the subject . |
| 21 | These timings will hold so long as wait times exceed processing times , which is often true . |
| 22 | In particularly weak cases the conciliation officer will go so far as to advise the applicant to withdraw the claim . |
| 23 | He could not understand how the hrududu could move so quickly and smoothly through the fields . |