Example sentences of "it [verb] so [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It says so in a little book I got from Our Lady 's Bookshop . |
| 2 | It looked so like a dead thing . |
| 3 | When the apparatus functioned properly , it did so with a loud clonk that the writer could hear from his home near Selby Road . |
| 4 | The growth of the NSDAP in Danzig followed that of its growth in the Reich , but it did so with a slight time-lag — a phenomenon of border districts everywhere . |
| 5 | Consequently , when a handful of practitioners came together in 1979 , it did so with a single guiding principle : ‘ the real measure of development is the ability of a people to build its own comprehensive and complimentary and independent infrastructure that is capable of dealing with its own problems , needs and aspirations . ’ |
| 6 | The racist imagination turns the world upside down , but it does so through a conservative appropriation of existing structures and discourses of power . |
| 7 | But it does so in a relativistic way which needs to be examined with care . |
| 8 | Where the septum meets the body wall it does so in a smooth curve . |
| 9 | It shatters satisfyingly when hammered , and it does so in a characteristic way . |