Example sentences of "[coord] so [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the control knobs had been placed half an inch or so higher then the selector could be placed below them , thus bringing it nearer to the player 's right hand . |
| 2 | Wavebreaker was registered in the Channel Islands , and thus sailed under a defaced British red ensign with the Bahamian flag flying as a courtesy ensign from the main spreaders , but I always greeted arriving charter guests with their own country 's flag — though such a gesture was considered bad flag etiquette by nautical purists , it was good for our final tip — and so Thessy now hoisted the Stars and Stripes to the mainmast 's spreaders and a smaller Stars and Bars just beneath . |
| 3 | The oak trees had not yet lost the vivid yellow-green of their late springtime , a colour so bright , so fresh and so unparalleled elsewhere in nature or in art that no one has ever been able to emulate it and it is never seen in paint or cloth or women 's dresses . |
| 4 | Such a result would be so illogical , and so much out of tune with the extensive inquisitorial powers which are undeniably created by the Act , that Mr. Collins accepted that this could not be the meaning of section 2 . |
| 5 | Venus has no satellite and so this less direct method had to be used . |
| 6 | And so this certainly is n't just the police 's fault , this is a very big problem . |
| 7 | However , this was seen as a rather negative solution to the problem and so another more positive approach was tried — brainstorming . |
| 8 | ‘ You see , Farmer Oak , she 's so handsome , and so well-educated too . |
| 9 | And so English regularly expresses a meaning contrast between house and houses , whereas Eskimo regularly expresses a meaning contrast between iglu , igluk , and iglut ( ‘ one/two/more than two houses ’ ) . |
| 10 | A little bit on the top , but so much underneath . |
| 11 | but so much else besides . |
| 12 | ‘ But so pale still , poor ghost ! ’ |