Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This year they estimate the whole legal aid bill will be around £100 million and I say : ‘ Well done ’ on spending that money so efficiently and economically in order to let people have justice . ’ |
| 2 | But this is the penalty all pioneers must suffer , for we all operate within the narrow confines of the knowledge and attitudes of our day , and before condemning us entirely , it is to be hoped that future students will appreciate that their own work would be that much more difficult , but for the solid foundations so meticulously laid down by John Pearson Gillam . |
| 3 | Heavily patterned carpeting may seem a good idea , concealing ground in crumbs and cigarette burns until the cleaners get to work , but there are alternatives to the garish patterns so often selected for public areas . |
| 4 | That genius so often |
| 5 | A further 6,000 soldiers from Nigeria 's army were demobbed at the end of June , bringing the total reduction so far to 15,000 . |
| 6 | In any event the civil war was the ultimate sort of turning point which defined that the national government er had a responsibility for ensuring the permanence of the union and it took that responsibility so seriously it was prepared to engage in what was then the bloodiest war in human history . |
| 7 | They have shown a stubborn reluctance to take that course so far , which leads to the belief that they have already promised the job elsewhere . |
| 8 | For my part I am unable to derive from that case so far reaching a proposition . |
| 9 | Growth in earnings per share is the key short-term measure so far as the City is concerned . |
| 10 | He 'll go backwards and forwards in that field so often . |
| 11 | His upper jaw kept clamping down on his lower jaw with a loud grinding noise , and chewed through each morsel so thoroughly that we could hear his teeth striking against each other … |
| 12 | In particular , it has a lower jaw so loosely connected with the upper that it can be pushed forward like a long narrow spoon . |
| 13 | Education is probably the best form of conservation because public opinion influences politicians , as is exemplified by the environmental debates of the late 1980s that figure so prominently in the media . |
| 14 | In relations between the German states , in which legalistic considerations so often bulked large , Latin held its ground longer than in Europe generally . |
| 15 | The electricity between them was becoming unbearable , their light-hearted words so obviously hiding something deeper . |
| 16 | In each chapter so far the passages chosen for detailed comment have been consecutive . |
| 17 | That side so okay it 's just |
| 18 | The bulk of the Goldeneye wintering in Sussex do so in Chichester Harbour , where recent counts have shown a fairly consistent winter peak of about 100 birds ; on 16 January 1971 225 were counted , and on 1 January 1974 , 234 , the largest concentrations so far recorded . |
| 19 | Did Theo remember that mill on the road out of The Hague where they had once sat and pledged eternal friendship so passionately , over their glasses of milk ? |
| 20 | Meanwhile , among the lots sold , the top price , but still only at mid-estimate , was reached by an early Salvador Dalí of 1921 , called ‘ Cadaqués ’ , and depicting the fishing village on the Costa Brava that Dalí so often visited . |
| 21 | If , as a result of its inquiries under s47 , it concludes that certain action should be taken to safeguard or promote a child 's welfare it must take that action so far as it is both within its power and reasonably practicable for it to do so ( s47(8) ) . |
| 22 | Conservative M P , Patrick Cormack , asked the Health Minister at question time , ‘ if the government believes in action not words , then would she accept that action so far was unsatisfactory . ’ |
| 23 | The first cry is associated with ‘ The change of Philomel , by the barbarous king/ So rudely forced ’ . |
| 24 | Chief Superintendent Riding of Bolton said that one youth has been arrested 30 times so far this year for taking vehicles . |
| 25 | ‘ they 're going to give it to me for being such a nice chap and because I want this guitar so badly . ’ |
| 26 | If that power was sufficient , the holy spirit , if that power was sufficient to raise Christ from the dead , you not think he 's able to exert that power in your life and in my life to make us live lives that are pleasing to God , of course it is so we do n't do it ourselves , just let me in closing mention one other thing , this relationship we have needs to be maintained , you know for any relationship to grow , one needs to spend time with the other person , I do n't give a lot of credence to the saying that absence makes the heart grow fonder , it does with somebody else , it 's true , it does not make it grow fonder of that person the person is you know who you , you heard this story so often , like particularly like going back during the last war , folk who were separated sometimes for , for , not just for months but for several years , there they were in concentration camps perhaps , in prisoner of war camps , separated for years , they come back home they 've got to get to know each other all over again you see that a relationship on a human level as well as in our relationship with God is dependent on , on association , it 's dependent on companionship , it 's dependent on spending time with the other person and in our relationship with Christ this is achieved by , by prayer , by knowing and understanding God 's word , by having fellowship with other Christians and fellowship with other Christians is not just meeting them and passing the time of day with them , oh that 's fellowship but it 's far more than that is required , there 's the fellowship in worship , we worship together , of course I can worship God at home of course I can do it , so can you do it and we , we should do it , but there 's that re , there 's that need , that requirement as God 's people we come together to worship him in a corporate act , in the sacraments , in , as we mentioned in , in earlier on in taking the bread and the wine and remembering the lords death , there 's a sense in which I can do it by myself |
| 27 | I wanted this part so badly . |
| 28 | Hotspur 's lance , steadily lowered as he came , selected its target , the foremost knight on the tallest horse , and struck the uplifted shield so strongly that the shock flattened its bearer back upon his horse 's crupper ; but he kept his seat gamely , rolling under the lance as it flashed by , to recover dizzily and swing a vehement though ineffective stroke with his sword , before the lurch and sway of the press carried him away . |
| 29 | ‘ There is no intrinsic reason for another reorganisation so soon after the last , and there is certainly no popular demand for it . |
| 30 | I 'm not used to coming from this direction so just remind me where the turning is . |