Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] so very " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is hard to imagine that not so very long ago there were no words for sellotape , instant-mix , deep-freeze , TV , drip-dry , silicon chip or jet-lag . |
| 2 | On these occasions , it is hard to realise that not so very far away , industry and commerce are hard at work . |
| 3 | Laura and Ross were such an outstandingly good-looking couple , and obviously so very much in love . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's a lovely piano , and not so very much out of tune . |
| 5 | Somewhere , and not so very far off , there was a musket fight . |
| 6 | Movies had always been made about the past , of course , if not so very frequently about that immediate past whose primary unit of measure is the decade rather than the century ; but it was probably Visconti 's The Damned in 1969 that inaugurated what were to be the definitive parameters of a new filmic style . |
| 7 | As Professor Fred Halliday of the London School of Economics points out above , The Gulf Region is so crucial to us all and yet so very volatile . |
| 8 | So glorious and yet so very real that if we by faith , and if we have by faith looked to Jesus Christ dying on the cross for us and received him , now , not there of course , but risen , and ascended , and glorified is promising that we ha will pass , or we have passed from death unto life . |
| 9 | For now , he added , Telekom is ‘ very cheap on short distances , but not so very cheap on long distances ’ . |
| 10 | he sometimes comes in and helps me out as well so very first class chap if you know anybody that needs a good headline writer Jack 's your man |