Example sentences of "[prep] so [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd lied about so much else , and it was quite clear now why he 'd wanted to know so much about Ryan , where he was , what he 'd done ; he 'd wanted to know how much or how little Ryan had told her so that he did n't make the same mistakes . |
| 2 | Do you know , I mean for so long now we 've done it very much on personal effort . |
| 3 | Well after we had a good time there for so long then there was transferred down to Aldershot . |
| 4 | If you leave it for so long though |
| 5 | The styles of learning in Koranic schools and catechist classes have predictable effects on the way children learn in school , but the missionary tradition in education is responsible for so much else besides , ( over a long period of the history of formal education the great majority of schools were missionary schools ) . |
| 6 | With every hot day in July worth so much more than one in the mists of September , the later start threatens to take the gloss of what , at first glance , seems set to be a good harvest . |
| 7 | While the loss of the West Bank reduced the demographic preponderance of the Palestinians in the state , the flight of so many eastwards and the drift of many to the economically more prosperous East Bank in previous years , left Jordan with at least 40 per cent of its population Palestinian . |
| 8 | I am not sure that on record it makes all that much difference to have 24 baroque oboes , as here , instead of 12 or so , but the sound of so many along with 12 bassoons , nine trumpets , nine trumpets and four sets of timpani is mightily impressive , and the more attractive for a rhythmic bounce . |
| 9 | But even this admiration can be a form of ageism if , by singling out the truly remarkable , we minimise the more mundane but no less significant achievements of so many very old people . |
| 10 | Trevor Nunn 's production , full of so many finely turned words , ends up saying nothing . |
| 11 | In many cases , it may be a matter of giving ground , out of kindness and consideration for the older person , who has been stripped of so much already . |
| 12 | Murder was the first destroyer of privacy as it was of so much else . |
| 13 | You know the pushchair 's sort of so small up to her . |
| 14 | Boulestin had found , like so many before and since , that in England the price of perfection is too high . |
| 15 | Like so much else in these cantos , the last line is midleading , since it suggests it was by an edict of Henry III that the Magna Charta was sent to all cathedrals and read four times a year , whereas Coke 's Institutes make it clear that this was on the contrary an enactment of Edward I. ‘ Selinunte ’ and ‘ Akragas ’ ( the old name of Agrigento ) are ancient Greek cities in Sicily . |
| 16 | Like so much else in music , this is a process that involves the passage of a lot of Lime : learning a work on the page and then on the orchestra ? |
| 17 | In the minority of Mary , this — like so much else — was to change dramatically . |
| 18 | Like so much else in Lebanon , it was physically possible but we never met anyone who had actually achieved this . |
| 19 | Like so much else the Romans had established , they and the villas were left to decay and collapse . |
| 20 | The episode was reported minimally in the Press , but played down like so much else during wartime . |
| 21 | That remains a mystery like so much else . |
| 22 | Yet , as they finally declare their love for each other — having been tricked into so doing — Beatrice asks one favour : It seems to me that the fact that this request comes in prose is a sign that it is not to be taken seriously , since it , too , like so much else in the play , is based on false appearances . |
| 23 | Like so much else about Paris and New York , that sounds only too familiar in London . |
| 24 | He did his deep-breathing exercises ; evidently , like so much else in his life , ritual ; then smiled at me and jumped back twenty-four hours . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , like so much else tonight , your timing 's perfect . ’ |
| 26 | How could he ever admit to Maisie that the very thing that had brought them together was , like so much else in his life , a lie ? |
| 27 | Your sermon was inspiring , and thank you for sharing this moving service with so many all round the country , so that we felt as one with your own congregation … |
| 28 | Against San Marino at Hampden in November 1991 , Scotland scored three times in the first half but then finished up with so many forwards that order went out the window and only one more goal was scored amid the scramble created by having Mo Johnston and Kevin Gallacher supplement John Robertson , McCoist and Gordon Durie . |
| 29 | He would have to show all this new treasure-trove to Blackadder , who would be both elated and grumpy , who would anyway be pleased that it was locked away in Safe 5 and not spirited away to Robert Dale Owen University in Harmony City , with so much else . |
| 30 | As with so much else , Gramscian ideas about the political centrality of culture seem beyond the scope of the orthodox left in Britain . |