Example sentences of "of so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nay , my lord , I am unworthy of so high a calling , ’ was what he said . ’ |
| 2 | He also wanted to publish the next volume of the Cantos as soon as possible , in order to bolster Pound 's reputation , although he had expressed private reservations that the most recent work was not of so high a standard as the rest . |
| 3 | ‘ But I am neither so foolish , nor so quixotic — nor , I may add , is my mind and resolution of so high an order ! — as to deprive myself entirely of the opportunity to better my own lot . |
| 4 | But the perpetual unrest in Argentina 's armed forces may not be disposed of so fast . |
| 5 | Sin could be repented of by an act of volition ; failure could not be disposed of so easily . |
| 6 | But if the physical violence that Dick Francis writes of so well , without glorying in it , without dismissing it in the way cruder writers do as they allow a hero to leap into action after some terrible beating-up if this does not fire your imagination you can still write suspense novels that will satisfy readers every bit as well . |
| 7 | IT was a case of so near and yet so far for Linfield at Windsor Park last night . |
| 8 | They 've been sort of so falsely jolly in the past , it sickens me . |
| 9 | it seems to have got sort of so much more deformed . |
| 10 | An engraving of Allen by Wenceslaus Hollar [ q.v. ] ( from a lost painting ) is one of the few portraits of an English artisan of so early a period , and bears witness to his fame . |
| 11 | The ironical thing was that all the time , in a stack in Hilbert 's desk , secured by a rubber band , were fifty or so old postcards collected by Hilbert and Lilian presumably on early travels and among them were two of Greece , one of Mount Lycabettos and the other the very view Rufus had spoken of so scathingly . |
| 12 | Finally we limped into Ambon , former jewel of the Spice Islands , written of so glowingly by Wallace , but now all but denuded of trees . |
| 13 | Dressed in black with a white shirt , her blue-black hair severely braided under a black Córdoba hat , she was the very image of the brother whom Maggie had seen and dreamed of so long ago . |
| 14 | But her lips were already parted , awaiting the warmth and the love he had deprived her of so long . |
| 15 | ‘ I ca n't wait to meet this Alice you both speak of so often , ’ Cora-Beth said thoughtfully . |
| 16 | She was curious , about the whey in his mouth and the shaft of his cock under her palm and the paired kernels of his balls ; about the possibility of pleasure her mother Sycorax who was dying now beside her had talked of so often . |
| 17 | Then he pulled her to him , and kissed her and this time stayed kissing her , and when she did not struggle , he pressed on , and went down to the ground with her and months of longing for her flooded him almost instantly , so that he had no time to swing with her long , cool firmness as he had dreamed of so often , but the instant release in contact with her swept away all his turbulence . |
| 18 | The fact that certain strategies which can be shown to be useful in translation have not been made use of so far suggests that translators are simply not aware of them , rather than that they are familiar with them but consciously or subconsciously choose not to use them . |
| 19 | He was established as a lecturer in natural philosophy at Edinburgh University for many years , but it was not until the age of fifty-eight that his first publication is recorded , when his work on the structure of crystals culminated in his report ‘ on a method of so far increasing the divergence of the two rays in a calcareous spar that only one image may be seen at a time ’ ( Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal , vol. vi , 1829 ) . |
| 20 | The accuracy of so relatively simple a ‘ brain ’ surprised even those involved in building it . |