Example sentences of "[adj] so [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the daughter , Margo Gunn is somewhat expressionless and William Armstrong as her brother at times inaudible so emotionally choked is his delivery . |
| 2 | Thus it is possible that the chronic alcoholism reported in some socialist utopias in the East may have the same psychological roots as that so vividly described by the Spanish chroniclers of Inca Peru . |
| 3 | ‘ Sunken featured building ’ is a cumbersome and inelegant term adopted for relatively small structures erected over a sub-rectangular pit dug in the ground , ranging in size from 3 × 2 m up to the largest so far excavated at Upton ( Northamptonshire ) which measured 9.1 × 5.5 m ( Jackson et al . |
| 4 | The largest so far identified lies west of Ryknild Street , emphasizing the fact that the road may once have acted as a settlement boundary . |
| 5 | The 200-mile event is the largest so far organised by UK Women 's Cycle Racing Association . |
| 6 | Additionally and importantly , for from this so much resulted , there was extensive correspondence to be dealt with . |
| 7 | The Home Secretary 's remarks on PR , made to party workers in Stroud , are the most strident so far used by a senior Conservative against electoral reform , which is the condition set by the Liberal Democrats for their support in a hung Parliament . |
| 8 | She assumed the air of sang-froid so well known to her acquaintances back in England . |
| 9 | The remarkable thing about Daryl Runswick 's operatic project , following a tradition set by Britten himself and acknowledged as such by the generous support of the Aldeburgh Foundation , is that it involves whole classes from primary and middle schools around Suffolk , not just the few so prematurely labelled ‘ musical ’ . |
| 10 | And a photographer told how he saw a girl of about six so severely burned that a fireman could not bring himself to treat her by dousing her with a hose . |
| 11 | None of us really knew what we were going to see , and in the early days the tapes were rather artificial because the lessons were all so well prepared , the kids knew they were going to have a video in the classes , it did n't mean that they were always well behaved ! |
| 12 | Why was this all so tightly packed ? |
| 13 | They were all so deeply embedded in themselves there was no love or support left for her . |
| 14 | But once you 've got there , you do n't have to play down the big moments , or play up the character scenes , because it 's all so perfectly balanced . ’ |
| 15 | Pope has commented that it is hard not to detect in Ælfric 's statement in Wyrdwriteras that we sceolon secan æt Gode sylfum urne ræd mid anrædum mode ( we should seek our counsel from God himself with unanimous spirit ) " an allusion to the unræd so unhappily associated with Ethelred " . |
| 16 | The RFU is recruiting youth development officers and , of the 11 so far appointed , eight are in the North . |
| 17 | Given the extremes within the party it is not surprising that there is a continuing feud between those willing to make political deals and those so utterly opposed to the system that they will make no concessions . |
| 18 | Tricot delivered a report of stunning mediocrity similar to those so often produced by pompous security commissions in Britain investigating spies , traitors , and telephone tapping . |
| 19 | He has already won 1,267 — just under half of those so far contested . |
| 20 | Of the part-time tutors , about a quarter were local schoolmasters , and there were also a number of parish clergy , local government officers and retired professional people ; only two of those so far booked for courses were women , although when the programme was finalised there were three . |
| 21 | The scope of the present debate will now be expanded by examining whether there are more substantial grounds than those so far considered for regarding companies as ‘ private ’ bodies . |
| 22 | If Councillor Fraser follows the trend , he will now be ‘ FIMgt ’ which makes his list 30 letters , and a clear winner among those so far reported . |
| 23 | Hence the importance attached by some communist theoreticians to the issue of mass participation within the party and the dismay expressed by generations of dissidents that the party control of the state which the early Marxist-Leninists had thought so important so easily degenerated into the substitution of one autonomous bureaucracy by another equally immune to democratic control and accountability . |
| 24 | The bronzes that the Chinese so eagerly collected came from burials and were usually covered in a fine green patina . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Equally , pupils who are very able should be allowed to forge ahead , to embark on tests beyond the scope of any so far envisaged . |
| 27 | Meanwhile Pound has proposed an English poet who is more nearly an analogue to Gautier than any so far mentioned , a nearer analogue and yet still not wholly trustworthy because he is ‘ from poem to poem , extremely uneven ’ . |
| 28 | Endowed with a formidable creative vigour , untrammeled by the insularity which bedevilled the English art of his day , forthright in his opinions , he expressed them in prose of clarity which had not been equalled by any British painter since Hogarth , whose art and whose personality his own so closely resembled . |
| 29 | In job creation terms its return on the £170 million so far invested has been small . |
| 30 | Some books become such classics that they run on into innumerable editions and impressions , with the original so much extended , altered and corrected that there is scarcely a vestige of it left . |