Example sentences of "[noun sg] so [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eagle 's Nest Direct was the first Very Severe rock climb in the British Isles and a route so serious then that to contemplate leading it at that time of primitive rope technique meant you also contemplated death . |
| 2 | I 'd never seen her look so evil before . |
| 3 | He makes a sandwich so big even he ca n't force it in his mouth . |
| 4 | On the other hand , neither did the faithful military figure so much here as it did in the political activities of the Smolensk party organization . |
| 5 | ‘ Just why do you want this club so much anyway ? ’ she asked abruptly . |
| 6 | What , I believe , makes Lewis 's view of the Bible so important today is that it is very similar to the view of the fathers of the primitive church . |
| 7 | She had wanted this job so much too — needed it , if she was honest . |
| 8 | So I mean you 're not gon na say well let's go and get another Ian Wright off the peg so fair enough . |
| 9 | Wonder wh well what 's that , you know , be a bang so close well it was n't till , till some time after we found out that they 'd stationed a naval gun somewhere Newtown way and they 'd f fired this gun to , as a practice . |
| 10 | Well they , they had to do the , it had n't used to have very good drainage and far more of a slope , it , it 's far more level today than it used to be , it used to have a great slope towards the long end which was considered an advantage to Walsall and the water used to gather , but I believe the improved the drainage and had pipes put under which it , it does n't seem to gather water so much now down at the railway end . |
| 11 | It numbed the mind of one woman so much recently that she left her baby to suffocate inside her car while hoping to hit the jackpot , a bucketful of balls , which can be exchanged for jars of coffee or pairs of tights . |
| 12 | More widely within society , it is argued , competitive individualism challenges collectivism ; the provision of services through the state is abandoned in favour of privatization so expanding again the sphere of potential profit-making . |
| 13 | Also , as staff expectations improve the ‘ they do n't know any better ’ policy so popular today will fade away . |
| 14 | She might have been any age between thirty and sixty and Wexford set the lower limit so low only because of her young children . |
| 15 | She found it unnerving to be made aware that she could want a man so much physically when her mind was totally against it . |
| 16 | The frequentation of death which makes life so precious also finishes , sometimes , by giving one a distaste for it , and more often , lassitude . |
| 17 | Vertue was doubtless involved because of his expert knowledge of vaulting gained at Windsor , Westminster , and , above all , at Bath Abbey where he and his brother had engaged in respect of their fan vault that ‘ there shall be noone so goodely neither in England nor in France . ’ |
| 18 | And this is what I think the dream is trying to tell me , a message so clear now you have shown me the way to understand these voices speaking to us from the hinterland , so to speak . |
| 19 | In a country so large there really is something for everyone . |
| 20 | And he he was n't he said they can only stand the water problem so long so what they can do with it I do n't know . |
| 21 | they were n't , did n't do this in this century so much here peasants did they ? |
| 22 | The solution was so convenient — and for someone in Tolby 's position so tactful too . |
| 23 | Your rate of allowances are n't there because they go out of date so fast so I 've got an extra , you can have one of these each with the rate of allowances . |