Example sentences of "[noun] so [vb base] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The saint could not resist the appeal of that spotted belly , butter-soft , that pale fur so douce and plush . |
| 2 | Well you do n't want to go out in the car so stop and do a bit of painting . |
| 3 | ( ‘ And even as wheels in harmony of clockwork so turn that the first , to whoso noteth it , seemeth still , and the last to fly … ’ ) |
| 4 | Leaving her abruptly , he moved to the desk and stood staring down at the papers lying on it , his attitude so tense that Lucy felt compelled to go to his side . |
| 5 | The job description should be reviewed annually , and more frequently if circumstances so require and where necessary amended , subject to any agreed requirements of consultation and notice and have regard to the teacher 's previous role , experience and potential . |
| 6 | ‘ Is it meaner than a place so foul that you ca n't bear to touch your own skin except to brush off the things crawling over you ? ’ |
| 7 | They like training which they can actually apply , that has practical applications so say if you 're thinking of something like erm motivation styles or something like that , if you were gon na introduce Lounslow I du n no at the motivation there are loads of them one 's Lounslow one 's Hertzberg if you were introducing our training to a pragmatist what would be essential is you could actually show the practical application of it , if you just put forward C V and no practical application the pragmatist would say well this is all very well in theory , but how can I apply it to my job and if they ca n't they think well what 's the value of this . |
| 8 | ‘ And Ianthe and Mr Stonebird ’ — ‘ Rupert ’ did not quite come out-'live so near that I dare say they can escort each other , ’ said Sophia . |
| 9 | Such phyla so persist because the only way they can be recognized is by reference to themselves . |
| 10 | There was a trench running down this one , too , its contents so foul that he walked with his feet astride it . |
| 11 | His hand curled around the back of her neck , slipping under the heavy weight of her hair , and she shuddered violently , her whole body so tense that she felt she would shatter into a thousand tiny pieces . |
| 12 | It was as warm as summer , the temperature an amazing 15.5° C. So warm that we had earlier seen a comma butterfly on the wing . |
| 13 | Fergus had not been aware of the precise moment when the Lad of the Skins drew his soul from his body with the Knife of Light , but he had known a great coldness , and a sense of desolation , and an abandonment so complete that it had overwhelmed him , and for a time he had scarcely been aware of what was happening . |
| 14 | It was only minutes , the duration of that fleeting armistice , but such a stillness was so unaccustomed , embraced a silence so complete that it was always noticed , and wondered at . |
| 15 | Only when in technology body and image so interpenetrate that all revolutionary tension becomes bodily collective innervation , and all the bodily innervation of the collective becomes revolutionary discharge , has reality transcended itself to the extent demanded by the Communist Manifesto . |
| 16 | Walter Benjamin ( 1979b , p. 239 ) , in a rather similar context , called for a politics in which ‘ technology , body and image so interpenetrate that all revolutionary tension becomes bodily collective innervation , and all the bodily innervations of the collective become revolutionary discharge ’ . |
| 17 | It can be difficult finding the leg position so remember that most of the gull 's weight is forward ; so place them almost under and in line with the head . |
| 18 | In fact , the Port of Rotterdam offers you a variety of facilities so complete that other ports can only dream of them . |