Example sentences of "[adv] so [adj] [conj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not so violent as war surely ? |
| 2 | Recent investigations into lexical ambiguity ( Church , 1988 ) have shown that although words are capable of existing in many syntactic categories , in reality the problem is not so widespread and words actually possess unique ‘ best ’ parts of speech . |
| 3 | It should be damp enough to hold together when squeezed in the hand , but not so wet that water still runs out through the fingers . |
| 4 | Dear Jitka , she was always so serious and Katya so impudent , Clara so dreamy . |
| 5 | Fire was used for forest clearance and because slopes were steep soil erosion was rapid ; its effects were often so serious that productivity rapidly declined and new areas were cleared . |