Example sentences of "[noun] in [adj] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | What cut in half so you can make a sandwich ? |
| 2 | He embalmed a child in 1717 so skilfully that he deceived Peter the Great , who thought the infant was alive yet in a state of normal repose . |
| 3 | One of the distinctions between these two works is that Veblen 's goal is more limited ; he is not concerned with consumption in general so much as a specific type of consumption which was of particular importance in the period during which he was writing , a period which may be seen as marking the transition to the age of mass consumption . |
| 4 | ‘ They acted out the robbery in full so that when it came to describing it to everyone , to police , and to insurance investigators , they would be able to describe it in perfect detail . ’ |
| 5 | And I 'm sure you 'll see them in operation tomorrow , we 've got six bowlers in all so we 're fairly confident that we 'll er bowl whatever the conditions . |
| 6 | Before Mr Stewart was charged , there was a tacit agreement that pilots could admit flying problems in private so that others could be warned in time to avoid disaster . |
| 7 | At Exeter , the bishop 's palace was used as a bakery and the cathedral became a centre for preaching , a wall being built to divide the building in two so that Presbyterians and Independents could worship separately . |
| 8 | Want some herbs in these so |
| 9 | In this case , the question of mens rea was crucial , the defence arguing the relevance of the BBFC 's decision to refuse a national certificate in 1970 so that the film could first be assessed by a representative sample of local licensing authorities who were more closely in touch with community standards . |
| 10 | Yes , and I suspect that it has been an almost unique experience in that so much of the cost has been provided by other Governments . |
| 11 | The Don admitted that we would have won more if we 'd had Harvey in earlier so perhaps that 's the most telling point of all . |
| 12 | Currently a ‘ non-executive director for hire ’ , he gave up his partnership at Arthur Young in 1987 so that he could devote adequate time to his role as chairman of the Eurogroup for Animal Welfare . |
| 13 | In order for this to happen it is imperative to educate people in general so that we may have a much greater knowledge of the fundamental causes of both health and ill-health . |
| 14 | There have been eleven black directed films released in the US in 1991 so far , with another eight ready to go and an uncounted number in production . |
| 15 | Rulers and governments might well be willing when it suited their own purposes to overlook the difficulties which precedence , titles and formal procedures in general so often caused . |
| 16 | Fold the rope in half so that there 's a loop in the middle . |
| 17 | there 's a psychological as aspect in some so much that if they think that a policeman is gon na walk round the corner er , they 're not so keen on doing it . |
| 18 | Erm I brought in the old flurry tape , I 've I 've taped I taped our when you 've read my play for me , I erm I taped it and I made a copy for Dave I you know , erm Cybil makes a good effort in that so eventually I 'll lend you the tape . |
| 19 | SINCE vitamin E was first discovered in the rat in 1922 so many ill-founded claims for its role in human nutrition have been made that cynics have dubbed it ‘ E for everything ’ . |
| 20 | Have you got any points in that so far ? |
| 21 | That does not answer the burning problem of law-breaking on a Sunday , especially when the House has not been afforded the opportunity even to debate the matter in full so that a consensus of hon. Members can be taken . |
| 22 | The later Lives of Aethelberht place his accession in 779 so that the suspicion must arise that this note is perhaps based on a misreading of a king-list which concluded by simply listing these names and misled the annalist into thinking that the kingdom had been partitioned among them . |
| 23 | But with either system , the same crops are not allowed to be sowed for more than one year in four so that any soil disease is not perpetuated . |
| 24 | Tixier-Vignancour 's success in retricting General Salan 's punishment to life imprisonment in 1968 so angered President de Gaulle that he considered resignation . |
| 25 | They gave up other rings and wore iron ones in public so that they could be seen to have done their duty , which was what really mattered . |
| 26 | But i it grew slowly over the weeks and I think Christmas was an example of just the actual logistics of what we did at Christmas must be something of a feat in that so much stuff came in from the volume of presents and then the way in which they could be distributed . |
| 27 | By the end of the seventeenth century the Anglican church in England was developing institutions to serve American needs : the Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge was launched in 1699 and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts in 1701 so that the established church could help its brothers in the colonies who were exposed to much more competition from other Protestants . |
| 28 | This is a severe disability in one so young , where the speed of communication of youth is an ever present part of daily life . |