Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb -s] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | All these four reasons are subject to varying degrees of criticism : Unskilled manual jobs may well be done just as well , if not better , by the less educated ; resistance to change in employment can be affected more by the alternative job opportunities that are available than by levels of education ; advanced industrialisation has so atomised and de-skilled the production process that for many workers further or higher education is not necessary in their jobs , etc. , etc . |
| 2 | Where lava erupts from a single vent a low exogenous dome may be formed from a succession of flows , but basaltic lava flows so readily that such features will only develop on nearly level surfaces . |
| 3 | It 's really the superseded Mitsubishi Galant — built in a new factory on the old machinery with low labour costs so prices are attractive , even if the finish is a little rough . |
| 4 | The proliferation of this literature has so simplified going into our wilderness areas that readers are literally taken by the hand . |
| 5 | Few geniuses seems so untouched , in a fashion-ridden world , by the fashions of the moment . |
| 6 | British Rail has so far totally failed to do so . |
| 7 | At that time local authorities could be seen as acting in the interests of the majority — the phrase from the last paragraph of the 1978 extract from the Library Association record above ( omitted from the 1989 policy statement ) ‘ either on grounds of … a desire to ‘ protect ’ public morality' suggests so . |
| 8 | Until some genius does so , controversies like the one which surrounded this year 's Mildmay Course at Aintree , are bound to crop up from time to time . |
| 9 | Although this review has so far concentrated on those findings which reveal most clearly opposite visual hemifield superiorities for verbal and non-verbal ( especially visuo-spatial ) stimuli it is impossible for one familiar with work in this field not to be struck by the lability of the laterality effects reported ( Cohen , 1982 ) . |
| 10 | This chapter has so far focused mainly upon south Korea and on the American-Soviet deliberations upon producing a unified administration . |
| 11 | The discussion in this chapter has so far not explicitly recognized the changes that have been taking place and will continue to take place in manufacturing methods . |
| 12 | This interview means so much to her , ’ she explained in a hurry . |
| 13 | This work seems so much more relevant to the training of doctors in a developing country than theoretical exercises in high-technology medicine still promoted in the undergraduate syllabus of many a traditional school . |
| 14 | But in the ensuing duet for Balstrode and Grimes , this motif gets so entangled with Grimes 's personal strife and obstinate nature that by the time the " Storm " interlude itself begins ( with a variant of the fugue subject ) we may genuinely wonder whether the hurricane is not as much an inward as an outward affair . |
| 15 | When one tries to analyse the real reasons for the respect which French cookery has so long exacted from the rest of the world , the French genius for presentation must be counted as a very relevant point , and its humble beginnings can be seen on the market stalls , i the small town charcutiers ' and pâtissiers ' shops , in the modest little restaurants where even if the cooking is not particularly distinguished , the most ordinary of little dishes will be brought to your table with respect , properly arranged on a serving dish , the vegetables separately served , the object of arousing your appetite will be achieved and the proprietors of the establishment will have made the most of their limited resources . |
| 16 | This ambiguity does not greatly alter our conclusions regarding airburst altitude : once an object has spread to , say , twice its initial radius , its further spreading happens so quickly that an ‘ explosion altitude ’ is defined to within a few kilometres , regardless of whether the explosion is taken to occur then or when the object has spread to 5–10 times its initial radius . |
| 17 | In conscious rats restitution of non-haemorrhagical lesions proceeds so quickly that re-epithelialisation of the denuded surface is nearly complete within 1 hour . |
| 18 | Clearly , no one explanation could cover why we eat cows but not cats ; why big game hunting is the traditional pursuit of the wealthy ; why furs are going out of fashion ; why sexual slang employs so many animal and eating metaphors ; why customary cannibalism is seldom if ever authenticated ; why we worry so much more about high fat meats than about eating cheese ; why so many religious sects espouse vegetarianism ; why burger bars have been redecorating with pastel colours ; why the Flintstones barbecue dinosaur steaks ; why we eat beef rather than cow ; why businessmen might eat steak tartare at a negotiating lunch ; and why meat is said to give men aggression , strength , or heterosexual virility . |
| 19 | She is launching herself into Europe with at least as much conviction as any other British businessperson has so far shown . |
| 20 | It is unfortunate that when a problem of this sort gets so much publicity it can become the bandwagon on which those who desperately want attention jump . |
| 21 | There is no reason to suppose , however , that unemployment among this group creates so few problems that we can ignore it . |
| 22 | When my right hon. Friend does so , will he tell my constituents that there has been a record reduction in the number of strikes and that we now have the best figures for decades ? |
| 23 | Because my hon. Friend looks so disconsolate , I will give way to him after all . |
| 24 | This overlap happens so frequently that you must be prepared to live with it . |
| 25 | When an old person becomes so demented that she or he can not be contained in an old people 's home the choice is between a private nursing home costing about £400 a week or a free bed in the NHS . |
| 26 | That 's why the negativism in British movies feels so healthy over here you 've got Mrs Thatcher . ’ |
| 27 | You 're not sure why this criticism comes so vigorously your way . |
| 28 | The truth is that the East German leadership has so far shown all too few signs of wanting to change . |
| 29 | I welcome both the inquiries that the right hon. Gentleman has so speedily set up , but may I advise him that , if we do not get it right this time , we shall be at the Dispatch Box again to consider still more cases ? |
| 30 | However he did say that in the years ending June 1983 and June 1984 the total number of High Court judges so involved was 28.4 As no details were given , this figure is almost meaningless but if the categories counted were similar to those for the period of 1953–73 those two later years show almost a doubling , on average . |