Example sentences of "[vb base] so [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There too her parents who love her so much and suffer so much when she leaves their family feel indebted to her parents-in-law . |
| 2 | When it was midnight they took the body of the Cid , fastened to the saddle as it was , and placed it upon his horse Bavieca , and fastened the saddle well : and the body sate so upright and well that it seemed as if he was alive . |
| 3 | Perhaps it is not surprising , because those demands change so much and so often . |
| 4 | In his State of the Union address , delivered to the US Congress on Jan. 31 , President George Bush stated that " the events of the year just ended , the revolution of 1989 , have been a chain reaction — change so striking that it marks the beginning of a new era in the world 's affairs " . |
| 5 | Why did all the grown-ups giggle so much when Richard ( the younger of the two boys ) and I went to the fancy dress party as Adam and Eve ? |
| 6 | I mean so short that it would be difficult to conceive of . |
| 7 | I was not angry or upset so much as concerned by the lads going so far in the wrong direction . |
| 8 | The inexperienced pilots often try to soar in unusable lift , and they concentrate so hard that they do n't recognise that they are drifting away and are not going to get back to the field . |
| 9 | If the brightness backward mask follows soon enough after the target and is bright enough , it will reduce contrast in the target display so much that the target contours will not be discriminable from their background , and so the target will not be identifiable . |
| 10 | When her arms and legs grow so long that she wears the rabbit 's house like a wooden dress , her performance is magic . |
| 11 | I have already suggested that in speech we normally plan at the point of utterance and that is evidenced in those typical features of speech which appear so surprising and , indeed , shocking to people inspecting transcripts for the first time . |
| 12 | This neatly explains why the curriculum proposals appear so simplistic and old-fashioned and constructed in apparent disregard of the professional approach of teachers , inspectors and academics , for they read the sequence in a forwards direction , each step being derived logically from the one before . |
| 13 | Events in the world , they say , appear chaotic and unplanned , appear so all but unmistakably . |
| 14 | we want so much and we just ca n't do it , it 's frustrating John , I mean |
| 15 | If I smell so much as a drop of ale on their breaths , they will answer to the King 's Provost Marshal ! ’ |
| 16 | Yet it 's the principle , not the money , that seems to be upsetting you — and the fact that others demand or expect so much and appreciate so little . |
| 17 | The astonishment is that , in the face of these adverse odds , the fossils that have been collected are so numerous and the record they provide so detailed and coherent . |
| 18 | She hesitated , hope so fragile that she was afraid to risk rejection . |
| 19 | ‘ With a lot of will we could still be building ships there , ’ said 57-year-old Hughie , who has seen the Whitby shipbuilding industry decline so much that there are now just two people making traditional Yorkshire cobles . |
| 20 | Indeed the Baron himself has almost given up buying ( a recent exception was Constable 's ‘ The Lock ’ , which he acquired at Sotheby 's in 1991 for over £10 million ) , as works of sufficient importance appear so rarely on the market and cost so much when they do . |
| 21 | ‘ Utter so much as a word about last night 's work and you will be clapped in irons , ’ declared Tyrell . |
| 22 | nQue Technologies Corporation , a small Silicon Valley start-up , has mapped out a wholly different approach to the Windows-on-Unix issue so wily and obvious it 's amazing it 's taken the industry this long to come up with it . |
| 23 | NQue Technologies Corp , a Santa Clara County start-up , has mapped out a wholly different approach to the Windows-on-Unix issue so wily and obvious it 's amazing it 's taken the industry this long to come up with it . |
| 24 | And d' ya know I I 'm beginning to think you sort of protest so much that maybe you 're a leader of a coven or something . |
| 25 | I have been accused of favouring Transworld in the past , so I feel I must defend myself and say that it is not that I love Transworld so much as that I admire success . |
| 26 | THE FIRST thing you notice about The Wishplants is how they make performing on stage look so good and so damn easy . |
| 27 | Life is so dreadfully hard in the forest these days , and you all look so well-fed and contented . " |
| 28 | I 've never seen the President of the D T I look so harassed and frightened for his own future . |
| 29 | People always look so vulnerable when they 're asleep . |
| 30 | See they look so tidy but they oh I do n't know how they keep them like it ! |