Example sentences of "so [adj] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to a report , the second lock up was in fact so narrow that occasionally a boat would be partially gripped , causing it to plunge dangerously . |
| 2 | They er well I think constitutionally it 's very difficult and this is why there is now in a similar sense as why I suggested it to you as a subject , because not only it was er a very emotional story of a glamorous young woman saying I ca n't cope with being treated by the media and other people , I 'm going to retreat but what made it so historic and therefore the treatment of it 's so interesting , was that it presented such an extraordinary constitutional position |
| 3 | The Act is perhaps not so clear where only the claimant with a possessory title is before the court , for example , because the true owner does not appear or can not be found . |
| 4 | She suspects that Charles suspects that she had once had an affair with Ivan , but of course she had not , though she concedes that Ivan is so unpleasant that only a degree of past sexual intimacy could plausibly explain the kind of relationship that he and Liz have over the years established . |
| 5 | The Miscarriage Association believes that one in three pregnancies end in miscarriage often so early that even the mother is not aware . |
| 6 | The Novel gives a familiar relation of such things as pass every day before our eyes , such as may happen to our friends , or to ourselves , and the perfection of it is , to represent every scene in so easy and natural a manner , and to make them appear so probable , as to deceive us into a persuasion ( at least while we are reading ) that all is real , until we are affected by the joys or distresses , of the persons in the story , as if they were our own . |
| 7 | ‘ The tenancy shall continue until the said land is required by the council for the purposes of the widening of Walworth Road and the street paving works rendered necessary thereby and the council shall give two months ' notice to the tenant at least prior to the day of determination when the said land is so required and thereupon the tenant shall give vacant possession to the council of the said land … |
| 8 | The security at the Palace was so tight that even the band 's ersatz manager , Scott Piering , could not gain admittance for his close acquaintances . |
| 9 | The vicar is now so unpopular that only a handful of people still attend St Mary 's Church . |
| 10 | In this region the integration of the drainage pattern is so good that practically every point in the area can be assigned to one or another of the former drainage basins . |
| 11 | And here we 've got a couple that happen to be olive trees , and I , I 'm not so sure that just the fact that they 're olive trees really is that important . |
| 12 | This is necessary because the psychological action on many bodily processes can be so great that even a sugar pill can have striking therapeutic effects if the person believes it will . |
| 13 | But her beautiful mask had just slipped , and underneath were fear and insecurity so deep that only a professional would be able to uproot them . |
| 14 | Then he realised that they were presumably so poor that even a choice of cornflakes or lumpy porridge , along with underdone toast and margarine , had the overwhelming attraction of being free . |
| 15 | It was , however , nothing so dramatic or pompous-merely a statement revealing that at that time the question of my succession to Macmillan had simply not crossed my mind . |
| 16 | THERE are some disasters that are so ghastly that even the voyeur averts the eyes . |
| 17 | Until recently the fact that the strength of engineering materials is usually only between one and five per cent of the strength of their chemical bonds was of little practical significance because the joints between the various component parts of structures were so inefficient that even the strength which the material had was scarcely used . |
| 18 | His good humour was so infectious that even the fräulein managed a wan smile . |
| 19 | Since the fear of fear will not be so great you will not be so distressed and then the anxiety will fade away of its own accord . |
| 20 | It was ludicrous to be so young and yet a has-been . |
| 21 | But in the evening , on what was to prove his last visit , the prisoner was so long and so quiet that eventually the carabiniere who had remained to guard him banged on the door . |