Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] [vb pp] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One afternoon after they had been for a swim together , Sycorax said , as Ariel took her on her back again , grunting for the old woman had grown so much heavier , it seemed , since her immersion , ‘ You are having the red man 's child . ’ |
| 2 | Because philosophical argument and social theory have floated so far apart , the debate about reduction is liable to seem trivial — an arcane preoccupation which has no counterpart in studies of particular social phenomena . |
| 3 | Indeed , pre-existing opportunities have contracted as a result of the sale of council houses , which has proceeded at faster rates in more attractive suburban-type locations ( Forrest and Murie , 1983 ; Kleinman and Whitehead , 1987 ) , while the prices in the owner-occupied sector have risen so far that first-time buyers appear increasingly to be excluded from the housing market ( NBS , 1986 ) . |
| 4 | However , he did n't have time now for self-reproach , nor to wonder why Isabel 's seeming betrayal had cut so deeply that he had instantly thought the worst of her , had immediately accepted Matilda 's word though he 'd known how vindictive and spiteful the woman could be . |
| 5 | His theory required him to specify a reason why the human branch of the evolutionary tree had advanced so much further than those which led to the living apes . |
| 6 | The political climate has changed so rapidly since 1979 that many of the central principles of the Partnerships have been severely eroded . |
| 7 | He says that the little boy has done so well , he can have a berret ! |
| 8 | One was that Mr Yeltsin was Russia 's best hope — no plausible alternative leader has argued so unequivocally for a market economy , or seemed willing to trust the young reformers who will be needed to create it . |
| 9 | The contrast with her exhilaration on the frozen lake had come so swiftly . |
| 10 | In recent years , it has been argued that the position and powers of the Prime Minister have altered so considerably that it makes sense to talk about the rise of prime ministerial government and the transformation of the Cabinet into yet another " dignified " part of the constitution . |
| 11 | The eldest Miss Fricker never forgot the arrival of the travel-weary student whose brilliant reputation had gone so powerfully before him . |
| 12 | SCOTLAND 'S industrial base has shrunk so dramatically that there are almost as many people unemployed as working in manufacturing , previously unpublished figures showed yesterday , writes Joy Copley . |
| 13 | In many industrialised market economies collective bargaining has become so firmly established that it is sometimes regarded as being virtually synonymous with the prevailing system of industrial relations . |
| 14 | How could her young sister have behaved so inconsiderately ? |
| 15 | And it 's Tommy who 's scored , the young Irishman has done so well at the heart of the defence for Shrewsbury , has got into the opposition penalty area and what about this for a score line ? |
| 16 | In overall terms , between 1900 and the present day , the state apparatus for collecting and sorting criminal information has changed so dramatically that we must question whether it can supply us with a valid measuring-stick with which to compare the two periods . |
| 17 | Most studies on anorectal function have focused so far on solid stool incontinence , which is probably the worse form . |
| 18 | That is why the support of the government to the voluntary sector has grown so dramatically in recent years . |
| 19 | The property of a collection formed by Helmut and Margot Kraetz , whose German and Minimalist art had sold so well in New York in November , they attracted enthusiastic competition and fetched a total of $501,500 ( £278,600 ) , the most expensive lot being an untitled sheet ( lot 104 , est. $35–45,000 ) , executed in gouache and crayons in 1964 , which sold for $75,000 ( £41,700 ) . |
| 20 | Communion actually the Holy Communion has become so much more important to us and so much more exciting to us because we 're not just celebrating the living Christ we 're also celebrating the crucified Christ and we 're simply meeting our pain and our joys together in communion with him . |
| 21 | Afterwards we all said that it was good for the game that the transplant of power which had begun at the Sydney Football Stadium in our bi-centennial year had taken so robustly . |
| 22 | In countries like Brazil , the original financing had come so heavily from foreign loans that by the mid-1980s , SOE debt was over half of the total foreign commercial debt . |