Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] so [adv] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Galadriel Hopkins had rarely come so close to begging . |
| 2 | Among the areas of technical interest is the evaluation of GIS software when used with zonal datasets , particularly since this form of information is far more common in the social sciences and ‘ the real world ’ than are the digital mapping and remote sensing datasets for which GIS is most highly developed so far . |
| 3 | Just what was the object of Barbara 's terror that viewers had only seen so far as a suction cup visible through a circular lens cowl ? |
| 4 | So much done so quickly and then nothing . |
| 5 | Julius drove out of Warwick at a speed that was highly illegal , and Jessamy sat tensely beside him , still not understanding why the day had suddenly gone so dangerously wrong . |
| 6 | Kirov appeared a little surprised that it had all gone so smoothly . |
| 7 | The luxury she had only glimpsed so far was all a far cry from the fading Victorian splendour of St Margaret 's with its peeling paintwork and under-staffed , overworked departments . |
| 8 | He had felt sour ever since her arrival — he could admit it to himself now — but simply because it had all happened so unexpectedly and confusedly . |
| 9 | She heard Ana scream her name but it had all happened so fast that she was stunned . |
| 10 | It had all happened so quickly . |
| 11 | I could not understand how it had all happened so quickly . |
| 12 | It had all happened so quickly that he could still not believe it . |
| 13 | It had all happened so quickly . |
| 14 | But it had all happened so quickly — and I knew so little about you — except that I 'd fallen in love with you . ’ |
| 15 | In a move which has upset Leeds ' manager Howard Wilkinson , Batty said : ‘ I had heard that Blackburn were interested but it has all happened so quickly . |
| 16 | He wanted her and she wanted him but … she could n't think straight … she was confused … it had all happened so quickly , too quickly . |
| 17 | It had all happened so long ago , and she had found a successful career for herself in radio anyway , despite Luke 's having caused her to be dismissed from that first job back in South Africa and the subsequent need to abandon her Communications course , and as he himself had pointed out — oh , as she herself had always known deep down , hence her long-ago guilt — she had chosen to leave Johannesburg when her father was dying . |
| 18 | I wish I could suggest a meeting before I go , but it 's all happened so suddenly I just ca n't see how I could fit it in . |
| 19 | Then , at , the news that we 'd all worked so hard for . |
| 20 | ‘ I had n't realised it had all taken so long — it was lunchtime when the alarm went off . ’ |
| 21 | Bureaucracy , which was so brilliantly analysed so long ago by Max Weber ( 1922 ) , is based on legal-style directives and rational — though slow — procedures . |
| 22 | The dominant response may at present be a favourable one , but this is only maintained so long as it implicitly accepted that functions are being successfully and rationally fulfilled . |
| 23 | Seeing that the independents would be slowly strangled so long as they relied exclusively upon the British circuits , he sought to establish connections to Hollywood . |
| 24 | Things are not altered so quickly or coarsely by common people as they are by fashionable people … |
| 25 | One of the problems with the streamed situation was that those pupils who found themselves in the bottom streams , who found that they were perhaps not regarded so highly , or so positively by their teachers , tended to respond with misbehaviour in their classes with occasionally vandalism around the school and a generally a negative attitude towards the school and their teachers in general . |
| 26 | One of the problems with the stream situation was that those pupils who found themselves in the bottom streams , who found that they were perhaps not regarded so highly or so positively by their teachers , tended to respond with misbehaviour in their classes , with occasionally vandalism around the school and generally a negative attitude towards the school and their teachers in general , and the immediate effect of the mixed ability grouping was to eradicate behavioural problems of that kind almost entirely . |
| 27 | Possibly they are priests or temple attendants wearing animal masks : the Minoan religion had certainly not developed so far that such things were incongruous . |
| 28 | Primitive , that is pre-literate , societies of the present period also exhibit restrictions on the instincts , but have less physical security because technology has not developed so far . |
| 29 | Branson and Draper were convinced that this was why acts like Oldfield and Tangerine Dream , who had been phenomenally successful in Europe , had not fared so well in America . |
| 30 | We have not stressed so frequently the importance of liaison with our own colleagues , arguing ( with sometimes dubious validity ) that because it ‘ happens all the time ’ it does not need to be explicitly provided . |