Example sentences of "[noun] so [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oliver was very disappointed ; he had thought about Mr Brownlow so much recently , and had always hoped to find him again . |
| 2 | Rather than by using the fist , the greatest volume is attained more easily and also more beautifully by placing the notes so close together that the ear hears no space between them . |
| 3 | I 'd never seen Lisabeth so sentimental before . |
| 4 | Eagle 's Nest Direct was the first Very Severe rock climb in the British Isles and a route so serious then that to contemplate leading it at that time of primitive rope technique meant you also contemplated death . |
| 5 | Right why should we be bothered about protectionism y'know why is G A T so important presumably there must be gainers as well as losers from protectionism so the gainers and the losers domestic farmers gainers or losers ? |
| 6 | In those narrow streets , with houses so close together , and the dirty water running down the middle of the street , there was no escape . |
| 7 | I 'd never seen her look so evil before . |
| 8 | ‘ The world is crumbling around me , Wilson , ’ she said , the words so faint only a finely attuned ear could have heard them . |
| 9 | Sandy 's red Jaguar was parked behind a dense hedge , the twigs so close together they formed a visual barrier from a distance . |
| 10 | Habibi 's confidence was restored , yet never was a horse so careful not to bite the hand that fed it ! |
| 11 | He makes a sandwich so big even he ca n't force it in his mouth . |
| 12 | These are reminiscent of Richard Hamilton 's celebrated Pop Art collage " Just what is it that makes today 's homes so different so appealing ? " ( 1956 ) . |
| 13 | On the other hand , neither did the faithful military figure so much here as it did in the political activities of the Smolensk party organization . |
| 14 | ‘ Just why do you want this club so much anyway ? ’ she asked abruptly . |
| 15 | The Code also applies to offers for private companies so resident where : ( 1 ) their equity share capital has been listed on the London Stock Exchange at any time in the ten years before the relevant date ; ( 2 ) dealings in their equity share capital have been advertised in a newspaper on a regular basis for a continuous period of at least six months in the ten years prior to the relevant date ; ( 3 ) their equity share capital has been the subject of a marketing arrangement as described in CA 1985 , s163(2) ( b ) ( eg on the USM ) at any time in the ten years prior to the relevant date ; or ( 4 ) the company has filed a prospectus for the issue of equity share capital at the Companies Registry at any time in the ten years before the relevant date . |
| 16 | Devlin 's hand swung up , he fired three rounds so close together that they might almost have been one . |
| 17 | What , I believe , makes Lewis 's view of the Bible so important today is that it is very similar to the view of the fathers of the primitive church . |
| 18 | She had wanted this job so much too — needed it , if she was honest . |
| 19 | I hope now that perhaps the legal proceedings can be held in abeyance and discussions can take place so some out of court settlement can be reached as the judges are urging . |
| 20 | So I mean you 're not gon na say well let's go and get another Ian Wright off the peg so fair enough . |
| 21 | Wonder wh well what 's that , you know , be a bang so close well it was n't till , till some time after we found out that they 'd stationed a naval gun somewhere Newtown way and they 'd f fired this gun to , as a practice . |
| 22 | Well they , they had to do the , it had n't used to have very good drainage and far more of a slope , it , it 's far more level today than it used to be , it used to have a great slope towards the long end which was considered an advantage to Walsall and the water used to gather , but I believe the improved the drainage and had pipes put under which it , it does n't seem to gather water so much now down at the railway end . |
| 23 | From here he could see the crowded harbour quarter , the rooftops so close together that they welded in the heat haze into one whole . |
| 24 | I ask , How are things so different here ? |
| 25 | Why were things so different then ? |
| 26 | This excellent location offers guests easy access to both shopping and sightseeing of Hong Kong Island and Kowloon , especially with the Peak Tram so close by . |
| 27 | It numbed the mind of one woman so much recently that she left her baby to suffocate inside her car while hoping to hit the jackpot , a bucketful of balls , which can be exchanged for jars of coffee or pairs of tights . |
| 28 | More widely within society , it is argued , competitive individualism challenges collectivism ; the provision of services through the state is abandoned in favour of privatization so expanding again the sphere of potential profit-making . |
| 29 | Also , as staff expectations improve the ‘ they do n't know any better ’ policy so popular today will fade away . |
| 30 | On the one hand , his invasiveness of Johnson triggers an immediate cringe : on the other , were not Boswell so crass so frequently , his readers could not get so close to Johnson . |