Example sentences of "so [adj] [conj] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Immobile in his throne on Earth , that godly paragon who was so old that his personal name had long been forgotten both beamed out a beacon and sensed the flow of Chaos , through which his starships must swim and out of which could congeal … abominations . |
| 2 | Her lungs burst into fragments of agony so infinite that her lower lip could do no more than flop open and dribble out a feeble croak . |
| 3 | Mrs Radcliffe too shows more interest than Jane Austen in her peasants and their dwellings : mirth may co-exist with poverty and ignorance in hovels without chimneys or windows where men and beasts shelter together , while her more fortunate poor live in cottages so arcadian that her wandering gentlefolk may even stay in them overnight . |
| 4 | Of course , there may be other reasons why it is not so detailed as our visual image . |
| 5 | This does n't contradict Galileo 's famous observations on the speeds of falling bodies ; the pumice fragments are so light that their aerodynamic properties rather than their weight control their rate of fall . |
| 6 | You would be so shocked and so disgusted that whatever faint chance of your return is left would disappear for ever . |
| 7 | She thought she had never seen anything so delicate as his left eyelid quivering above the green ball of his eye , nor anything so vivid as the scarlet spots spattering the bow of his tie . |
| 8 | Alice screamed with laughter as Fernie gave her a jerk which pulled her forward so hard that her left shoe stayed behind , its heel bedded deep in the grass verge . |
| 9 | Infolink , the leading consumer credit reference agency , says the problem is now so widespread that its existing service — which is largely based on the register — is no longer comprehensive . |
| 10 | He looked good enough to pass muster , but not so valuable that his inevitable sacrifice to the god of political expediency on the altar of high culture was likely to bring tears . |
| 11 | When she was so cold that her bare feet began to stick to the linoleum , she went back to bed and tried to stay awake . |
| 12 | I want to know why Froggy was so confident that his financial ship was about to dock . |
| 13 | Sir Charles ’ terror was so great that his weak heart stopped , and he died , but the animal did not touch the dead body . |
| 14 | The Chancellor had left Blackpool late on Monday night , after addressing party agents , but conference jitters were so great that his unexpected disappearance prompted rumours that he had gone back to London for crisis talks . |
| 15 | She had ignored her ‘ whispers ’ for so long that her inner self was forced to send her urgent messages . |
| 16 | Preston 's playing is so vivacious , his enthusiasm for the music so stimulating and his obvious enjoyment in playing this marvellous instrument ( which the DG engineers have recorded with something well into the demonstration category ) so infectious that I doubt even the most dyed-in-the-wool hater of organ music could fail to be won over to the cause . |
| 17 | Around one third of pensioners are so poor that their basic state pension is topped up with other state benefits . |
| 18 | Short-term cases are often small children to whom the separation is so alarming that its temporary nature is irrelevant to them . |
| 19 | Fletcher 's book contained a " devastating description of Russian manners and morals " , but was so antique that its scholarly translators must have thought themselves safe in making it accessible . |
| 20 | our society has become so complicated and our representative system of government so remote to many fellow citizens , that there has to be an alternative way of expressing dissent other than the constitutional way of doing it through representative government . |
| 21 | Yet she had retained an impression of somebody so ordinary-looking that his very lack of distinction was in itself reassuring . |
| 22 | Some stars will become so small that their gravitational fields will bend light to that point that it comes back toward the star . |
| 23 | With such an effective way of victualling her young , the mother is able to retain them within her until they are so big that their sheer size makes them a burden and the mechanics of getting them out of her body becomes a real problem . |
| 24 | For a resident , little things become so big when your whole life can revolve round what 's for lunch and can you sit in your usual place or has someone pinched it ? |
| 25 | The British Government have lagged in their support for events in Europe and have not been so enthusiastic as our European partners . |
| 26 | Sir John Pryce ( 1698–1761 ) of Newton , Glamorgan , was so distressed when his first wife died that he had the body embalmed and placed next to his bed . |
| 27 | The extraordinary atmosphere was keeping me so sky-high that my private feelings for John seemed to have detached themselves and slipped out of reach . |
| 28 | There is also a considerable amount of feedback from implementation which influences further policy making , and many policies are so skeletal that their real impact depends upon the way they are interpreted at the implementation stage . |
| 29 | She was so breathless that her bitter words sounded strangled . |
| 30 | He was standing less than one pace away , so close that her swift movement caused her gown to brush across his hauberk , catching on a metal link . |