Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun pl] so [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colleagues , I know that people are starting to move out , and I 'm sure that it 's got nothing to do with Mick 's appearance at the rostrum , but colleagues seriously , seriously for the last couple of days we 've had a great deal of disciplines so please try and be as quiet as possible . |
| 2 | Even a Board of Guardians so unusually influenced by Labour as that of Poplar was reluctant to pay out-door relief to the unemployed . |
| 3 | The great merit of the UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali 's Agenda for Peace report to the Security Council summit last year is its tough-minded and realistic assessment of the kind of reforms so urgently required . |
| 4 | There are plenty of good reasons why nationalism thirsts for identification with ethnicity , if only because it provides the historical pedigree ‘ the nation ’ in the great majority of cases so obviously lacks . |
| 5 | It was a splendid opportunity for Douglas Hurd to recall those long-lost Victorian values which the Thatcherite brand of Conservatives so ardently wished to revive . |
| 6 | Adam Smith presented them as an example of a small group of workers so strategically placed in the chain of production that they could command high wages . |
| 7 | Is it necessary to have an extra ladder of offences so closely linked with the general ladder of offences of violence ? |
| 8 | There is no precise meaning to ‘ double ’ with regard to petal number , and the word is taken to mean a number of petals so closely packed that until the bloom fully opens and then ‘ blows ’ , it is virtually impossible to see the anthers and other sexual parts of the flower — they are quite hidden . |
| 9 | In serving the interest of some rather than all , the 1988 Education Reform Act may come to be judged as an impediment to the creation of that equality of outcomes so long seen as an essential right of all citizens . |