Example sentences of "[adv] so [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he realised that they were presumably so poor that even a choice of cornflakes or lumpy porridge , along with underdone toast and margarine , had the overwhelming attraction of being free . |
| 2 | The Misses Wynne flew to the window and exclaimed in ecstasy over the view of roof-tops and more roof-tops , and then exclaimed again at their luck in finding somewhere so peaceful and perfect . |
| 3 | I am rarely so drunk that I ca n't talk or walk straight . |
| 4 | In fact , decisions are rarely so rational or even conscious . |
| 5 | The persons surveyed were certainly eminent , but mostly people ( even politicians ! ) whose achievements were rarely so enduring as to place them in the class apart to which we would assign the truly original thinkers in history . |
| 6 | People are rarely so rude that you can say , ‘ Look , we 're not enjoying this , are we ? |
| 7 | But it was not the face , or the manner which struck Wilson most so much as the lithesome body . |
| 8 | A further characteristic which is perhaps so obvious that it is rarely remarked on , is that farming is a skilled occupation . |
| 9 | The major exception is the ubiquitous iron knife , perhaps so common and such a personal item that it was felt to be expendable . |
| 10 | This occurs when a politician , perhaps so senior that he is notionally responsible for the agency itself , makes it known that he would be very pleased if some particularly sensitive and hazardous intelligence coup could be attained , usually in order to enhance domestic political popularity . |
| 11 | He broke off , and looked suddenly so exhausted and worn that Leith just did n't have the heart to tell him what an offensive brute his cousin had been . |
| 12 | He leaned his forehead against the stone , and was suddenly so weary and so content that it seemed to him there was nothing left to be desired in life , and nothing more he need strive for . |
| 13 | I felt helpless and despairing and suddenly so ill that I had to clutch at the door to stop myself falling . |
| 14 | I was apologetic that I was apparently so inexperienced and free of everything . |
| 15 | This amazing £250,000 Japanese import is apparently so sophisticated that it is beyond its capability to frank more than one all-purpose hybrid place of origin on its postmark , viz ‘ Cumbria ’ occupying the whole upper half of the disc , with ‘ Dumfries & Galloway ’ ( nearly three times the length ) squeezed into the lower half . |
| 16 | At the start she is only so cruel as she is only Miss Havisham 's tool for revenge , and later she seems to have a little pity for Pip when she warns him that she has no heart . |
| 17 | We are hopeful that there will be no surcharges levied whatsoever on the cost of your holiday — but obviously fuel costs , currency movements and governmental action are outside our control , and there is only so much that we are able to absorb . |
| 18 | I think there was only so much fun to go round , only so much and no more available . |
| 19 | Yeah I 'm like that but we had a erm conifer type tree it was only so big but and then I and when we we was unloading off the van , this come off and I dug a hole and stuck it in the garden , in the front garden just by the pathways right that 's that but I was washing the car one day , a nice hot day got my shirt off when I come in course I 'd brushed past it I 'd got patterns of the leaves on my on my back . |
| 20 | But if that 's the case , he 's obviously so accurate that maybe he should try hitting them close for a change ! |
| 21 | The North Sea is obviously so shaped that very strong northerly winds can cause a piling up of water in the southern part of the sea , either because the escape route through the Straits of Dover is narrow , or because it is quite possible for the winds in the North Sea to be predominantly northerly while the winds in the English Channel are predominantly westerly . |
| 22 | He was obviously so happy and content in himself and his vocation that he had no real worry about being himself — even in the pulpit . |
| 23 | The excavators at Silchester and Caerwent had found great quantities , but regarded it as merely so commonplace and ordinary , that they hardly bothered even to mention it , thus ignoring the important principle laid down earlier by the great Pitt-Rivers , who attempted to record everything he found ‘ however small and however common … common things are of more importance than particular things , because they are more prevalent ’ ( 1898 , 27 ) . |
| 24 | But they are none the less so different that many questions arise . |
| 25 | They racketed in a ragged chorus , never quite finding a common beat , rasping one 's nerves , but finally so familiar that when one day they stopped in a rare shower of rain , the silence was like an explosion . |
| 26 | The birth of a son was welcomed now for traditional reasons ( for example , among Hindus the son plays an essential part in the cremation ceremony ) and because he would bring home a vast dowry when he married , but no longer so much because he would be a new worker for the joint family . |
| 27 | Divorce is no longer so shameful and is popularly seen as a permissible solution to marital difficulties . |
| 28 | Nahum was no longer so kind or considerate , and he was prone to strange moods . |
| 29 | Wolverton , which had been the seat of the locomotive building industry for the L & B Railway was no longer so convenient as when the northern terminus was at Birmingham . |
| 30 | These relations between finite coordinate distances are generally so inconvenient that it makes more sense to start calculations from the differentials which do transform linearly : . |