Example sentences of "so [adv] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The expanse of wooden floor , cool and clean and shining … the double bed with its hand-appliquéd quilt in a complex pattern of pastels and white … the stand of leafy potted plants , the antique free-standing mirror , whose glass oval would take in the whole length of a woman in evening dress … the modern wardrobe , built-in , that blended so skilfully into the architectural mood of the house while providing all the space for clothing that she could possibly need … two original paintings on the walls , each an impressionistic landscape in subtle , imaginative colour … |
| 2 | He contrasts the moral ideas of humanity with those of the deity , who is described in terms reminiscent of Voltaire : ‘ Why have we sympathies that make the best of us so afraid of inflicting pain and sorrow , which yet we see dealt about so lavishly by the supreme governor ? ’ |
| 3 | Inaccurate or biased research deserves our criticism , but it is just as important to ask the prior questions of why researchers have chosen to study sex differences so intensively in the first place ( why does no-one study ‘ sex similarity ’ ? |
| 4 | As we know , the organisation of business er is n't their strong point at the moment , whether its been run ragged by their own rebels or clumsily breaking down the usual channels , seems our non-cooperation policy is merely an extension of the one that 's been working so effectively inside the Conservative party under the present Prime Minister . |
| 5 | It is perhaps easier to work with the Germans , whom Britain fought so bitterly in the first half of this century , than with the French or the Italians , whose active roles in the Second World War were prematurely curtailed . |
| 6 | However fraught the relationship with their mother , how could she have cared so little for the older woman as to send notice of her intentions through another teenager ? |
| 7 | Undoubtedly , the two interrelated movements — the democratic movement and the labour movement which developed so vigorously in the nineteenth century continue to have a major influence in politics , but the relation between them has changed during the present century , in a way which is also relevant to the character of more recent movements . |
| 8 | The public ceremony , the ritual , the signing of the contract , which can speak so powerfully to the inner world of the subjects , is absent . |
| 9 | She had slept so badly in the small hotel . |
| 10 | We can not have a discriminatory system in milk which works so badly against the British dairy industry . |
| 11 | So much for the general account for how ( as I see it ) meaning is achieved in the natural use of language . |
| 12 | so much for the new man … what about his partner … what made Glenn Hoddle leave Swindon |
| 13 | So much for the third-party element . |
| 14 | So much for the normal life cycle of the virus in nature . |
| 15 | So much for the radical conscience . |
| 16 | So much for the perfect end to a perfect night , she thought resignedly as she walked up the path . |
| 17 | So much for the melodic line . |
| 18 | And thank you so much for the beautiful card , the towel and bookmarks . |
| 19 | So much for the paperless office : Microsoft Corp claims that , stacked up , the manuals for the 100m copies of MD-DOS it has sold would reach to the moon and back — 10 times . |
| 20 | So much for the younger generation and their attitude to the new technology . |
| 21 | So much for the bright side , against which is failure yet to isolate the endothelin-converting enzyme which cleaves the inactive big endothelines ( 38–41 amino acids ) in their active forms ( 21 amino acids ) . |
| 22 | So much for the bad news . |
| 23 | So much for the permissive society . ) |
| 24 | So much for the big money . |
| 25 | so much for the Italian job Gloucester are back home training this week and getting themselves ready for the first league match of the season … that 's against wasps at Kingsholm on saturday ( 1 ) |
| 26 | One only has to compare the uniformity of contemporary stations with the richness , profusion , and variety in British nineteenth-century stations : the classical temple of Huddersfield , the Byzantine basilica of Blackfriars , the robust Jacobean manor-house of Stoke-on-Trent , the scholarly Jacobean collegiate buildings of Shrewsbury and Carlisle , the ‘ Russian dacha ’ of Petworth , the ‘ baroque orangery ’ of Newmarket , the airy French pavilion of Slough , the medieval Gothic abbey of Battle , the Queen Anne town house of Market Harborough and Birkenhead Woodside , so much like the great hall of a medieval house that one expects rushes on the floor , minstrels in the gallery , and foaming tankards of old ale . |
| 27 | He turned his back on the little girls , the poor one looking so much like the rich man 's child , as they disappeared into the house to eat their rice together . |
| 28 | The model behaves so much like the real thing that the Berkeley scientists believe they can predict what would happen to the building during an earthquake . |
| 29 | Then with a little grin , so much like the old devil-may-care Hilary , she proceeded to demonstrate all her new-found skills , her hands and tongue touching every magnificent inch of him until he pleaded for her to stop . |
| 30 | In fact , they 'll be amazed that nineteenth-century Catholics contrived to believe for so long in the literal truth of those poetic legends . |