Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | How did things go so badly wrong so quickly ? |
| 2 | However , as knowledge becomes increasingly use-specific , its portability declines , perhaps so much so that by the time it is embodied in a specific new product it can only spill over to producers of very similar substitute products . |
| 3 | This second wave was most successful in the ‘ Neo-Europes ’ of temperate America , Australia and New Zealand but was perhaps much less so in the tropics because of micro-organisms , which the societies based on shifting cultivation there , had evolved to avoid . |
| 4 | CUTTING a person in half by the usual slicing-across-the-stomach method is interesting , says Simon Drake.But sawing a person in up the is so much more so . |
| 5 | So Just just so we 're absolutely certain then , sorry if I if I can just take you back to the the l the areas spelt out in paragraph one one . |
| 6 | A devotion to T. S. Eliot was commonplace , almost compulsory , in Cambridge literary circles in the 1930s and 1940s ; a devotion to D. H. Lawrence only mildly less so . |
| 7 | Apart from regular ‘ cheesecake ’ or ‘ girlie ’ pictures of the sort that help boost the circulation of the popular press in Britain , there were syndicated pieces similar to those bizarre examples quoted above , though perhaps not quite so glaringly irrelevant . |
| 8 | ( Though perhaps not quite so improbable : a hulk I once saw stranded in Port Stanley in the nearby Falkland Islands was called the Jhelum — and both Sutlej and Jhelum are names of rivers in the Punjab . |
| 9 | A combination is perhaps not quite so simple as the beginners first believe . |
| 10 | they were all in it together and er , there was perhaps not quite so much erm side |
| 11 | The young man — perhaps not quite so young after all , he might have been as much as thirty — came forward into the room , closing the door behind him . |
| 12 | And I do need telling every now and then , although perhaps not quite so vehemently . ’ |
| 13 | I think perhaps not quite so much , you know , bending of the head might have been slightly more comfortable . |
| 14 | However , all of these properties can be achieved by the use of other chemicals , although perhaps not quite so economically in every case . |
| 15 | Though perhaps not quite so avidly sought after as its Pirelli or even Ilford counterpart , these nonetheless prove to be extremely popular with local folk who send them to their far-flung nearest and dearest . |
| 16 | We sang , a little earlier on , a song of er Wesley 's and back those two hundred and twenty , two hundred and thirty years ago , when Wesley was preaching in this country and in America , there was another preacher every bit as famous then , perhaps not quite so famous today , preacher by the name of George Whitfield and George Whitfield , he went around and he was preaching , and he preached on this , this text , John er , i in John three , you must be born again ! |
| 17 | Well , we seem to be a society that is very much orientated to crisis management rather than prevention , and perhaps we 're very good at recognizing our human needs and our children 's needs in terms of their nourishment , their physical and intellectual development , but perhaps not quite so well acquainted with their emotional needs to feel safe and secure with the adults around them being in control and able to handle their lives and the world 's situation in a mature and secure way . |
| 18 | In stressing the challenges that face us in health and safety it is not to ignore the environmental challenge however we recognize it needs to be considered much more widely so that our resources can be most effectively targeted . |
| 19 | Both together both together so the scores are so far close . |
| 20 | He said : ‘ It was so near yet so far . |
| 21 | So near yet so far , the thought tumbled into her mind . |
| 22 | GOLF : Ryder Cup selection method under fire as Gallacher springs a surprise Ulstermen so near yet so far SNUB FOR THE IRISH |
| 23 | Precisely what they would do to justify their share of the precious filtered air in the bunker is unclear , although only marginally less so than the process by which they were chosen for the job in the first place . |
| 24 | The lenient sentences handed down by judges , in those minority of incidences in which men are convicted of these crimes , is only slightly less so . |
| 25 | Tom turned out to be a charming , polite , affable man , perhaps slightly exaggeratedly so in the counselling room , to cover up his embarrassment . |
| 26 | One sees the need to be reminded of the richness of direct experience , especially today when so much is learnt and experienced indirectly from print , printouts , and television . |
| 27 | Penelope Shuttle and Peter Redgrove , in their book , The Wise Wound , show how the taboos surrounding menstruation in western culture are just as oppressive ( perhaps even more so ) as those of religious structures which lay down washing rituals . |
| 28 | Perhaps even more so , because with maps , my illusions remain intact , unblemished by reality . |
| 29 | There are very few exercises that do not put undue strain on the body ; this strain is caused by the same habits of muscular tension and lack of coordination that we use for everything else ( perhaps even more so ) . |
| 30 | The justification for such bare-faced cheek is in the recorded sound , which even the most jaundiced critic would have to admit is strikingly vivid for its age , the piano sound clear and articulate , and the orchestral detail as immediate as the day it was recorded — perhaps even more so — with just a tiny hint of brassiness and a slight shortfall of orchestral power to give the game away . |