Example sentences of "and so [adj] [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From time to time there are cases where the provocation is so gross and so strong that a court imposes a very short prison sentence or even a suspended sentence for the manslaughter — typically , cases where a wife , son , or daughter kills a persistently bullying husband or father — and such cases raise the more general question of whether provocation should ever be a complete defence to homicide or to other crimes . |
| 2 | great and so terrible that the hills |
| 3 | It has actually raised and submerged its sulphurous head five times since its first appearance in 1925 , and when Lorne and I reached it in September of 1983 it was nearly 300 feet high and so active that the government had denied us landing permits . |
| 4 | So intense was the dosaster , and so complicated that the Thames Valley Police have compiled a computer video showing what happened . |
| 5 | In what follows the interpretative dimension will come alive only on the next layer of the problem , where we ask whether social rules and institutions account for the performance of social roles , or vice versa , In other words , we think international institutions too fragile to permit a fully systemic answer on the highest layer and so incomplete that an answer which favours the international units must yield to curiosity about how these units work . |