Example sentences of "so [adv] [conj] [noun] [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He ate so swiftly that Libby could n't take her eyes off him ; she remembered all they were told about behaving properly and eating slowly . |
| 2 | Molly Pearce , the helpful spinster with her eye on Maurice ; she fitted so exactly that Wycliffe could scarcely believe his luck . |
| 3 | Similarly , if the gravitational mass of the proton were significantly different , one would not have had stars in which these nucleides could have been built up , and if the initial expansion of the universe had been slightly smaller or slightly greater , the universe would either have collapsed before such stars could have evolved or would have expanded so rapidly that stars would never have been formed by gravitational condensation . |
| 4 | In so far as literature would inevitably play a substantial part in any such course , the students reading it would learn the appropriate cultural codes rather than being expected to know them already . |
| 5 | Parliamentary sovereignty is still intact in so far as Parliament can still repeal the act committing us to entry . |
| 6 | Waiters ran around from table to table , shouting to each other and to the customers , so fast that Shelley could n't catch what was going on . |
| 7 | Even grass grows so thinly that cattle ca n't feed properly . |
| 8 | He had changed the subjet so adroitly that Juliet could only stare at him . |
| 9 | ‘ A pity , ’ Bruce murmured so quietly that Corbett could hardly hear him . |