Example sentences of "[adv] so [adj] [conj] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , decisions are rarely so rational or even conscious . |
| 2 | He leaned his forehead against the stone , and was suddenly so weary and so content that it seemed to him there was nothing left to be desired in life , and nothing more he need strive for . |
| 3 | The North Sea is obviously so shaped that very strong northerly winds can cause a piling up of water in the southern part of the sea , either because the escape route through the Straits of Dover is narrow , or because it is quite possible for the winds in the North Sea to be predominantly northerly while the winds in the English Channel are predominantly westerly . |
| 4 | ‘ She and Elizabeth , they were just so talented and so go-getting . |
| 5 | Yeah you see , well when we were looking you see so many and you think ooh that looks nice , ooh that 's nice but some of them are just so squadgy and well nice if you , if that 's how you want to sit |
| 6 | But she was just so bubbly and so vivacious , and she looked so young despite being well over eighteen , that there was something almost right for her in the part . |
| 7 | Below are the linked toy basins of the old fishing port , so small they are almost lost in the rocks , and a reminder that Biarritz was not always so big and so prosperous as it is now . |
| 8 | It also confronted them with the disagreeable fact that at any moment some disorder in their own sensory apparatus would cause that universe , ostensibly so orderly and so stable , to disappear . |
| 9 | I think one of the reasons ‘ Fitcher 's Bird ’ is at once so fascinating and so satisfying is that the third sister is not protected from the enchantment . |
| 10 | If the behaviour patterns of the good citizen as delineated by Home Office ministers were both so lacking and so necessary to cultivate as they suggested , the schools ' function in laying the essential foundations was transparently obvious . |
| 11 | It will be good , it will be an achievement , they must learn to live together , they 've got to , and they can , they can already , they 're both so wonderful and so intelligent and they like and respect each other very much , that 's absolutely clear . |
| 12 | Was I really so slow and so old ? |
| 13 | If we 're really so bad and so thick that we 'd actually use all those wonderful H-bombs and Neutron bombs on each other , then maybe it 's just as well we do wipe ourselves out before we can get into space and start doing horrible things to other races . ’ |
| 14 | Although Georgian architecture is now so popular and so familiar , its introduction must have shocked some people at the time . |
| 15 | Nowadays in Kenya nobody is quite so happy or so optimistic about the NPA , for though it survives in urban schools its extension proved to be full of problems . |
| 16 | If the death penalty did deter , then so distinctive and so dramatic is the sanction that its effect ought also to be too marked to overlook or dispute . |
| 17 | The question , so calmly delivered and yet so unexpected and shockingly brutal , knocked the wind from Ruth 's already emotionally bruised body . |
| 18 | She thought of Miguel , stern , slightly stuffy at times , yet so kind and so intelligent . |
| 19 | There were weaknesses — batteries were neither so good nor so light as they are today and in any case this was the first step . |
| 20 | Julian felt no pity , only a detached curiosity and wonder ; for he was not quite as she had imagined him , neither so malevolent nor so formidable . |
| 21 | Most of the game is mental — being able to keep your head clear and retain a certain outlook on life should mean that bad times are neither so frequent nor so lengthy as they would be if you start examining your technique or doubting your ability . |
| 22 | A mass of evidence follows , most of it from sound medical sources , that the medical profession has become hopelessly hooked on prescription drugs ; that the drugs are neither so effective nor so safe as our doctors would have us believe ; and that the public and the profession is being remorselessly taken for a ride by the pharmaceutical industry . |
| 23 | Of course , the mortgage market today is neither so generous nor so vague . |
| 24 | The rally I went to in Leicester in 1987 was neither so gross nor so damaging , but as a reasonably sympathetic onlooker , I was irritated by the frantic urgency and the artificial and inflated mood of tension , good for nobody 's judgment . |
| 25 | In his Golden Bough Sir James Frazer had difficulty in making up his mind between the two rival theories of the fire-cults and fire-festivals which are found intimately connected with the agricultural year throughout those parts of the world where the sun is neither so bright nor so constant as in the cloudless skies of Egypt . |
| 26 | In these , convergence to the competitive equilibrium is neither so swift nor so automatic ; for example , bubbles and crashes are observed ( see the chapter by Sunder in Kagel and Roth ( 1992 ) ) . |