Example sentences of "so [adv] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will not so much create a two-tier structure within the Division , as enable a wider spectrum of students to participate in the profession , allowing them to stop off , by way of academic attainment , economic circumstances or job notice , at different levels , secure in the knowledge that they have professional status , capable of being upgraded if they so wish . |
| 2 | She has managed their staff restaurant for 18 years , so obviously has a great relationship with our clients . |
| 3 | Without calling for one 's whole attention , it so persistently demands a small part of it that concentration on anything else is ruled out . |
| 4 | The difference between their debts and those of Third World countries however , is that while loan institutions can seize an individual 's assets , they ca n't so easily reclaim a nuclear reactor or a dam . |
| 5 | What he would like even more would be to own the fine boat , the means to support the boat ; and the further means to enjoy a style of life which could so easily include a fine boat , because that would surely embrace fine horses , fine coaches , fine clothes : Wealth . |
| 6 | Greed , frustration , and envy so easily replace a loving relationship . |
| 7 | Your metabolism needs a kick-start in the morning , so always eat a healthy breakfast . |
| 8 | It is in our interests as designers in this field to ensure that the ‘ pub tradition ’ that we all hold so dear remains a living tradition . |
| 9 | The children sit for normal exams at the local school and have so far maintained a necessary standard . |
| 10 | Foreign investment banks have so far made a big chunk of their profits from earning high interest on the 10 billion won ( $12.6m ) they must deposit to do business . |
| 11 | From Bill Evans ' early days at the end of the first world war , across the years to Bill Evans junior of the 1990's , the family has so far recorded a combined total of 143 years ' service with Wedgwood . |
| 12 | The Police have so far adopted a watching waiting game … vastly outnumbered … they hoped they would gradually leave of their own accord … earlier this month … |
| 13 | My heart pounds , and my throat closes up with fear when this happens , but they have so far beaten a hasty retreat after a selection of Anna 's words , not to be found in any A-level vocabulary book that I 've ever seen . |
| 14 | The scheme , launched by Michael Howard in May , has so far attracted a large number of national and other contractors , and has been given widespread support from both Government and consumer associations . |
| 15 | Official results are not expected until Wednesday but Serb radio said ballots counted so far showed a massive turnout and a ‘ no ’ vote of between 95 per cent and 99pc . |
| 16 | The research on this subject so far gives a mixed answer ( Campbell 1985 , Baum and Cope 1980 , Kiernan 1989a ) . |
| 17 | With the honourable exception of this last case , the homogeneously broadened laser has so far proved a fertile field for instability and chaos only for the theorist . |
| 18 | Alexander Proudfoot , chaired by Lord Stevens , however , has so far proved a glowing exception to that rule . |
| 19 | Contributions which he and his workmates have made so far exceed a splendid £1,576 . |
| 20 | The main season for preparing annual reports and accounts will soon be with us — the year end of 83 of the FTSE Top 100 companies falls between 31 December and 31 March — so now seems a good time for finance directors to assess whether their annual tome is user friendly . |
| 21 | They reject help from outside agencies which they see as interfering and so often show a poor response to therapy and intervention . |
| 22 | If only Cassan can get him safely through the speed leg , which so often plays a decisive part in the overall result , he looks as though he would relish the bigger obstacles expected for the second and third legs . |
| 23 | The person inside so often retains a strong feeling of individuality and continuity , as demonstrated by the poem ‘ The Crabbit Old Woman ’ ( Carver and Liddiard , 1978 ) . |
| 24 | But there is every reason to suppose that there already existed that division which makes the Church of the later Middle Ages so strangely resemble a military hierarchy , with the upper clergy as commissioned officers , the rural deans and archpriests as N.C.O.s , and the parish clergy as privates . |
| 25 | Bob Greener died in February 1970 and the club he loved and had served so well printed a moving obituary in the Programme for 21 February 1970 . |
| 26 | Little wonder that today 's black moggies so frequently sprout a small patch of white hairs as a badge of protection from earlier human follies . |
| 27 | Apparatus such as immersion heaters , boilers , electric cookers and so on require a separate supply with direct entry cables ( no plugs ) into fused sockets . |
| 28 | I mean we 're all , I 'm sure , basically family with what Darwin 's theory of evolution is , and I do n't really want to labour you by reminding you of it , but I think it 's important to appreciate first of all what his problem was erm and I think that it 's fair to say that for Darwin the problem was that as a naturalist he was aware of the fact that animals and plants are adapted to a quite extraordinary degree to their particular ways of life , and indeed many of his books on orchids and earthworms and so on have a great deal to say about the details of these adaptations . |
| 29 | Due to the technical complexity of some decisions , management jobs are often specialised by function , with managers being trained and developed to acquire the technical skills — in engineering knowledge , accountancy , personnel administration , marketing , and so on to run a functional department and make good management decisions for that department . |
| 30 | This specimen , which weighs only about 10 kilograms , shows a thin , surficial zone altered by heat ( the interior stayed cold ) , which indicates that it passed through the atmosphere as a small body and so undoubtedly made a soft landing on the ice sheet ( Figure 5 ) . |