Example sentences of "[adv] so [adj] [conj] it [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | But we must drive inflation down so low that it no longer affects the decisions made by ordinary people , businesses and government . |
2 | All the things that bloody woman , Beth , had said were true , but his old mind was not so sharp as it once was . |
3 | A somewhat different case is García Márquez 's One Hundred Years of Solitude which recounts the history of the small town of Macondo , not so much as it actually happened , but as its inhabitants experienced and interpreted it and as it was transmitted by popular oral tradition . |
4 | fucking laugh , so I said to her no I said it is this week Julie I said and it 's towards the end of the week but I 'll ring you by the weekend and let you know , well of course come the Thursday morning I have n't seen Val , and I was ever so upset because it really the end of the line money wise , I could n't do any more |
5 | On structural grounds alone , a new building was needed as it was now so weak that it probably would not be able to withstand building operations being carried out on the surrounding land . |
6 | This usage is now so prevalent that it hardly conveys anything more than the best that could be imagined . |
7 | The next top up was n't so good as it only worked on one side and all the pain was concentrated in one place . |
8 | I mean , twenty years ago when the volume of work was n't so high as it now , then erm every police officer was doing that , but because time has marched on and problems have become more an more , erm we we tend to have left the traditional way of policing behind . |
9 | The approach to management is not quite so lackadaisical as it once was , but there is still a long way to go , particularly in employment policies within the companies . |
10 | However , the situation is not quite so clear as it initially appears to be : in some earlier studies poly 3-deazaadenylic acid was shown to form unusually stable 1:1 and 1:2 duplexes with poly U ( 13 ) . |