Example sentences of "so [adj] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though forty-five causes were entered in the list for the March session , ‘ so efficacious did the mere issuing of the summons prove , that this number was reduced by a third before the opening of the court . ’ |
| 2 | It 's so easy to marry the wrong person . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , I was so delighted to celebrate the mere existence of this euphoria that , as a reader pointed out , I made no attempt to analyze exactly what it was about the theme parks that had produced it . |
| 4 | I MISSED the first performance of Peter Thompson 's Chinese Lantern Music at last year 's Summer Serenade , was so delighted to hear the complete work — the third in a series of commissions for local composers — played by the Petersfield Area Youth Orchestra on Wednesday . |
| 5 | The coolies sensed their fright instantly and in a moment forty or fifty of them were advancing menacingly on the little group of overseers , brandishing the implements they had used for so long to tend the rubber plantation under their ruthless tutelage . |
| 6 | That is why metaphor is so useful to communicate the experiential world of the people to the reader . |
| 7 | I never really appreciated the full meaning of the word ‘ vision ’ , until the day that I had felt so powerless to change the cruel reality facing my children and people in my community in Glasgow , that I started to wish with all my heart that I could go to sleep and never wake up again . |
| 8 | Chamberlain and I were inclined to be impatient when we saw him so reluctant to take the only course which seemed to us possible . ’ |
| 9 | In view of the devastation , the unemployment and the misery caused to our people , is it any wonder that the Prime Minister is so reluctant to hold the general election ? |
| 10 | The psychologist Jung believed that there is a common unconscious in which we are all included and so able to influence the psychic dimension in some degree . |
| 11 | This point emphasises why it has been so difficult to control the overall cost of benefits , which depends on both the level of benefits provided and the number of people claiming them . |
| 12 | But it was so difficult to find the right moment . |
| 13 | Er , but there again I think it was because the person doing this , was so keen to see the right result , that he read into into |
| 14 | It still stank and his nobles were so keen to avoid the putrid smell , they sent waxen images of themselves to the church . |
| 15 | And perhaps this also explains why he was so keen to play the leading part as villainous Michael Murray in GBH . |
| 16 | Gilford , a 27-year-old from Crewe , is so keen to make the European team that he would even be prepared to give up any invitation he might receive to compete in the US Open this year . |