Example sentences of "[vb base] so [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could this be because medics themselves suffer so grievously from the complaint , that they do not wish to talk or write about it ? |
| 2 | They remain so today despite the appearance of bigger and more powerful hunters which have compelled them to be more circumspect in their behaviour . |
| 3 | But such things fly so flagrantly in the face of known history , so flagrantly in the face of human experience , so flagrantly in the face of simple probability , that they impose an inordinate strain upon credulity . |
| 4 | In this way information is gradually built up , helping to paint a picture of the lives and lifestyles of the birds which appear so dramatically in the islands . |
| 5 | Indeed the Baron himself has almost given up buying ( a recent exception was Constable 's ‘ The Lock ’ , which he acquired at Sotheby 's in 1991 for over £10 million ) , as works of sufficient importance appear so rarely on the market and cost so much when they do . |
| 6 | Images of Nazism and the war appear so often on the screen that it took some effort to realise that these were real people inside those costumes ; that the peaked cap and leather boots were n't on hire from the wardrobe department . |
| 7 | You fit so beautifully into the surroundings . |
| 8 | Why this ceremony has to take place so early in the morning has never been explained to me , but it appears to be as essential a part of the nuptials as the Hindi movie music the night before . |
| 9 | FEW MOMENTS in British cinema cling so bleakly to the memory as that of Alan Bates vomiting copiously behind the settee under the withering gaze of Thora Hird . |
| 10 | It is important to review all these methods as they figure so strongly in the consciousness of people when they think of discipline . |
| 11 | Moores declared : ‘ My feelings are no different to those of the people who stand so proudly on the Kop . |
| 12 | There was a surprising amount of turn and lift so early in the year and when Gooch had reached 75 , he gloved a catch to Paul Johnson at short gully . |
| 13 | Some of our precious time spent at Low Birk Hatt is taken up by a steady stream of Hannah 's admirers , making a pilgrimage to a place they know so well from the television programmes and books . |
| 14 | For " the modern Whigs … make the bonds of allegiance so uncertain , press the people so hard to resistance , and pass so lightly over the doctrine of obedience , that they seem to make … the exception the rule " . |
| 15 | The assessment of practical subjects and their funding remains a problem , but the negative attitudes towards Agriculture , which I remember so clearly in the years just preceding and just after independence in the countries where I worked and travelled , seems virtually dead . |
| 16 | Contemporary with the alterations to the main east-west road , at least one or perhaps two possible public buildings were constructed immediately to the south on Sites 1 and 2 , each with a frontage carried on four columns and set so close to the road that the new roadside drains had to be diverted . |
| 17 | Fundamentalists believe so confidently in the reality of their message and of the Jesus they preach that it is within the reach of the average person . |
| 18 | In battle they believe so strongly in the power of the Orc gods Gork and Mork to protect them that enemy arrows and swords blows really can be deflected by the Orcs ' aura of self-generated arcane power . |
| 19 | Fundamentalists believe so totally in the reality of their message and of the Jesus they preach that they expect lives to be touched and changed . |
| 20 | I always do sit with my hands in my pockets , except when I am in the company of my sisters , my cousins , or my aunts ; and they kick up such a shindy — I should say expostulate so eloquently on the subject — that I have to give up and take them out — my hands I mean . ’ |
| 21 | They feel so strongly about the dangers they 've sent letters and pictures to the local council . |
| 22 | Does you boyfriend know you feel so strongly about the issue that you 're thinking of leaving ? |
| 23 | The reason why I feel so strongly about the care of the mentally ill is because of all that my aunt , Peggy Jay , taught me . |
| 24 | These shoes are n't very practical but they go so well with the suit . |
| 25 | Down the other side the coureurs go so fast through the hairpins that team cars ca n't follow . |
| 26 | I was sad and angry that he should want to place a bolt and go so radically against the grain ; sympathetic with Dave 's strong conviction ; peeved that my own route — Centrefold — had been usurped . |
| 27 | said that conditions ‘ go so directly to the substance of the contract or , in other words , are so essential to its very nature that their non-performance may fairly be considered by the other party as a substantial failure to perform the contract at all . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ And it 's not just the pace of the serves that does it , it 's also the fact that they go so close to the line . ’ |
| 29 | Few defamation actions end so satisfactorily for the defence . |
| 30 | Rarely did the family eat so much , break so many eggs for a single meal , or stay so long at the table ; the pleasure of idleness rocked her limbs , the restless noise of her own worries grew still and their voices faded in her head . |