Example sentences of "[adv] so [adj] [conj] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should wish you were brought home in wine rather than to come in so sober and so late as you do . |
| 2 | Taller , stronger , not so blonde but much more decisive than their mother , she still seemed perpetually astonished by life . |
| 3 | The ‘ implications ’ of literacy are not so obvious nor so easily elicited or described as Goody suggests . |
| 4 | His father did not mind his son becoming an Anglican priest but wished that he were not so Anglo-Catholic and not so high-principled about bishops . |
| 5 | I could only conclude she was now so weak that not just her body , her mind also had come totally under the Monster 's control . |
| 6 | The web of confusion that has surrounded the whole Nimslo venture is now so tangled that not even Nimslo can say exactly how much investment the company has attracted . |
| 7 | Time is running out for them , but , fortunately for the sectors involved , we will invest in them when we take office and will start to do the things that are being done in Europe which have made companies there so successful and so much more competitive than ourselves . |
| 8 | Many of Morse 's ideas were either so strange or so wildly improbable that most of them were always doomed to early disappointment . |
| 9 | Already in November 1941 , the SD was reporting ‘ disappointment that the final smashing of Bolshevism is not taking place as rapidly as hoped and that no end of the eastern campaign is in sight ’ , a dampening of optimism at the news of the first falls of snow and the feeling that further advancement might be extremely difficult , puzzlement at the failure to advance further when the Russian troops were allegedly so poor and so badly equipped , concern at the reports of continued tough resistance of the Soviet army , and pessimism that ‘ the way to the Urals was still a long one , and the partisan war could still last a good while ’ . |