Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [adj] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | What cut in half so you can make a sandwich ? |
| 2 | He embalmed a child in 1717 so skilfully that he deceived Peter the Great , who thought the infant was alive yet in a state of normal repose . |
| 3 | One of the distinctions between these two works is that Veblen 's goal is more limited ; he is not concerned with consumption in general so much as a specific type of consumption which was of particular importance in the period during which he was writing , a period which may be seen as marking the transition to the age of mass consumption . |
| 4 | ‘ They acted out the robbery in full so that when it came to describing it to everyone , to police , and to insurance investigators , they would be able to describe it in perfect detail . ’ |
| 5 | At Exeter , the bishop 's palace was used as a bakery and the cathedral became a centre for preaching , a wall being built to divide the building in two so that Presbyterians and Independents could worship separately . |
| 6 | In this case , the question of mens rea was crucial , the defence arguing the relevance of the BBFC 's decision to refuse a national certificate in 1970 so that the film could first be assessed by a representative sample of local licensing authorities who were more closely in touch with community standards . |
| 7 | Yes , and I suspect that it has been an almost unique experience in that so much of the cost has been provided by other Governments . |
| 8 | Fold the rope in half so that there 's a loop in the middle . |
| 9 | there 's a psychological as aspect in some so much that if they think that a policeman is gon na walk round the corner er , they 're not so keen on doing it . |
| 10 | Erm I brought in the old flurry tape , I 've I 've taped I taped our when you 've read my play for me , I erm I taped it and I made a copy for Dave I you know , erm Cybil makes a good effort in that so eventually I 'll lend you the tape . |
| 11 | SINCE vitamin E was first discovered in the rat in 1922 so many ill-founded claims for its role in human nutrition have been made that cynics have dubbed it ‘ E for everything ’ . |
| 12 | That does not answer the burning problem of law-breaking on a Sunday , especially when the House has not been afforded the opportunity even to debate the matter in full so that a consensus of hon. Members can be taken . |
| 13 | The later Lives of Aethelberht place his accession in 779 so that the suspicion must arise that this note is perhaps based on a misreading of a king-list which concluded by simply listing these names and misled the annalist into thinking that the kingdom had been partitioned among them . |
| 14 | But with either system , the same crops are not allowed to be sowed for more than one year in four so that any soil disease is not perpetuated . |
| 15 | Tixier-Vignancour 's success in retricting General Salan 's punishment to life imprisonment in 1968 so angered President de Gaulle that he considered resignation . |
| 16 | But i it grew slowly over the weeks and I think Christmas was an example of just the actual logistics of what we did at Christmas must be something of a feat in that so much stuff came in from the volume of presents and then the way in which they could be distributed . |
| 17 | This is a severe disability in one so young , where the speed of communication of youth is an ever present part of daily life . |