Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] [vb -s] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | .. [ which ] in the case of people who are not constitutionally sound becomes so dangerous that in many cases it develops into a ‘ consumption ’ … and the wisest course for such people to adopt is to leave England and cross the sea . |
| 2 | The only good thing , the only good thing about La the only good thing about Labour is that they would have brought back student grants so if I ever , if I ever do go to university then I 'll get lots of money . |
| 3 | About £4m has so far been paid out to about 964 investors during 1991–92 for the default of 35 companies . |
| 4 | Even grass grows so thinly that cattle ca n't feed properly . |
| 5 | Today , today Dawn looks so drab , my sister Dawn , she 's got trousers and my and my top and my top and she loves her kebabs and her her legs her dry , right . |
| 6 | Actually , I always wanted to write a play about how life gets so tedious that we start reminiscing about what happened two minutes ago . |
| 7 | With such obvious delight in food , it 's hard to see how Blanc remains so slim . |
| 8 | Now you talk to any coward , a real coward like myself , and he 'll tell you there 's a point where fear becomes so great it actually turns into courage , not out of anger or fury but that marvellous innate desire to save your own skin . |
| 9 | Then he tells me about the clothes allowance , and then I know why Sue looks so dishy three times a week , and then I start to salivate because you get to keep them ! |
| 10 | The reasons why Dagenham performs so poorly are complex and partly historical . |
| 11 | If the tax rate rises above 60% then the disincentive effect on output is so strong ( i.e. output falls so much ) that tax revenue ( tax rate x output ) actually falls , despite the higher tax rate . |
| 12 | Disposal of waste is big business , and one of the reasons why Britain receives so much is our maintenance of low prices of disposal . |
| 13 | This is why Peter gets so steamed up with the sales people from the software houses . |
| 14 | It is not clear why horns and antlers should differ so much in shape , but we do know something about why size varies so markedly . |
| 15 | That must be why Glasgow has so many museums . |
| 16 | If the investors do not themselves take out the keyman insurance cover but instead Newco does so and assigns the benefit of the policy to the investors , then Newco will not , in general , obtain a deduction from tax liability for the premiums paid because they will not have been " wholly and exclusively " incurred for the purposes of its trade . |
| 17 | Keith can not figure out why Potter looks so funny . |
| 18 | If we ask why Gandhi lays so much stress on the relation between Truth and ahi s , we have to look again at his view of the Self . |