Example sentences of "so [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | er the coach to er to er Bowness on the bus we took thirty nine pound erm with discount from last year people who er bought some last Christmas we made twenty three pound on that the library , only thirty pence course , we 've had trouble with the library because we ca n't leave it here now and er so that 's why it 's s so low the , the income . |
| 32 | ‘ You know , you ca n't believe she 's the same child that was so polite a couple of years ago . |
| 33 | Your Mum 's fucking fanny is so wrinkly the crabs have got walking sticks . |
| 34 | And Celia comes and she 's cheerful and she does the admin with them , she organizes it and I just personally I 'm just so grateful the best thing which has happened to me . |
| 35 | Dalziel grunted and thought that Jacko must be doing well at the moment to be in , for him , so light-hearted a mood . |
| 36 | Styling himself ‘ Dr. Isaac Titford ’ , he had been commissioned surgeon ( not by any means so prestigious a profession then as now ) in the first battalion , Sixtieth Royal American Regiment , and had lived for a while in Virginia ; he was also giving his enterprising spirit full reign out there in the West Indies , fathering the odd quadroon or two , dabbling in the slave trade , a postmaster at Spanish Town , a partner in a firm of druggists in Kingston and the owner of a coffee and pimento plantation . |
| 37 | jumping around while I was talking to her on the phone , I was getting so pissed the phone . |
| 38 | It was evident , as the trial went on , that Lord Robertson had held for many years a belief amounting to an article of faith that Meehan and Griffiths had committed the Ayr murder , and that so paltry a matter as overwhelming evidence to show that they had n't and that Waddell and McGuinness had , was in no way going to sway him . |
| 39 | The sound was so terrific the trains seemed to pass across the end of the bed , and we drew up our feet instinctively . |
| 40 | There was a feverish blush to his cheeks , as if he had seldom found so receptive an audience for his speculations . |
| 41 | He lies in a cot equipped with a special mattress which is filled with liquid ; he lies on so resilient a surface that it is very close to actually lying in liquid , as of course the unborn infant does . |
| 42 | Calcium and magnesium salts may then be added to partly catalyse conversion of a acids so pre-empting the boiling reactions . |
| 43 | As Mr Hart himself asked in a letter to The Times : ‘ In the face of so pellucid a Parliamentary intention , how was it that the Revenue not only thought it worth while to try it on , but actually found two courts to agree with it ? ’ |
| 44 | The paradox does not present itself in quite so acute a form if a weaker version of the contextual approach is adopted , which holds merely that the meaning of a lexical unit reveals itself through its contextual relations , without commitment as to what meaning ‘ really is ’ . |
| 45 | The major one is that the wing , had it been left there , would have snagged on the underside of the Kilcharran as it surfaced and tilted the fuselage , maybe to so acute an angle as to make access to this damned bomb difficult or impossible . ’ |
| 46 | It is necessary to turn back to Ezra 's childhood to find a key to that dire impatience which has led him into so strange a spiritual home as Fascist Italy . |
| 47 | How dared this man , a virtual stranger , stir up these doubts in so private an area of her life ? |
| 48 | She could address a letter to ‘ the occupier ’ , but so impersonal a request might well go unheeded . |
| 49 | This would be so absurd a system , that it could hardly fail to persuade the country that the Lower House must be reformed . |
| 50 | And compared with so self-evident a need , the matter of where the money was to come from was quite irrelevant . |
| 51 | How can a country which is so deeply intolerant of sexual differences in real life offer so raucous a welcome to such creatures ? |
| 52 | But this is a matter for the bishop , so sacrilegious an act as it is . |
| 53 | This is why fiction , including children 's fiction , is so irreplaceable a form of human knowledge . |
| 54 | Continuation of inflation at this kind of rate would cause the whole problem to recur in that the value of gold stocks , at the new fixed price , would be regarded as insufficient in relation to the rising value of trade , and speculation on a further gold price rise , against the dollar , would redouble ( as it would have been proved so profitable the first time ) . |
| 55 | Nature is so complete a system . |
| 56 | To such authors and their magazine reviewers , so wrong-headed an assumption must stem from defects in the thought — and perhaps also the character — of testers . |
| 57 | After all Dr Kugelmann recommended Karlsbad to so untypical a member of the middle class as Karl Marx , who carefully registered himself as a ‘ man of private means ’ to avoid identification , until he discovered that as Dr Marx he could save some of the rather steep Kurtaxe . |
| 58 | He was excited by the ferocious vitality and darting breadth of reference of the work , and secretly , personally , he was rather pleased that all this had been achieved out of so peaceable , so unruffled a private existence . |
| 59 | Can we do otherwise when our Lord suffered so cruel a death himself ? |
| 60 | Palmerston , with the longest speech of the debate , started by saying that Members would not be committed by the present vote to any style , as nothing would be decided until next session , and attacked Manners for approving ‘ the erection of so frightful a building ’ , involving expenses and perhaps disappointment to the architect without consulting the House . |