Example sentences of "[v-ing] so [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The American Ornithologists ' Union became active in 1883 , generating so much information that the government established a Division of Economic Ornithology and Mammology in 1886 under C. Hart Merriam ( 1855–1942 ) . |
| 2 | Seeing so much technology in use , the car was ‘ looked over ’ to see if we had a radar detector — we did n't . |
| 3 | Going to my first feminist conference in the late seventies : the thrill of seeing so many women together , and , even more so , seeing so many lesbians openly showing their affections for each other . |
| 4 | Going to my first feminist conference in the late seventies : the thrill of seeing so many women together , and , even more so , seeing so many lesbians openly showing their affections for each other . |
| 5 | You get used to seeing so many things , you become immune to what would normally be considered perversions . |
| 6 | It 's still hard for me to cope with seeing so many people everywhere . ’ |
| 7 | But I did n't look , I did n't stop , it was raining so bad Thursday morning and windy that I I went to the market , I cut straight through and went up and Di went to get the paper then he went . |
| 8 | And with so many publishers completing so many courses in 1993 , it will be very interesting to see what is published for whom next year , and whether it is the market or the applied linguist who call the shots . |
| 9 | I mean the the green man was flashing so all lights were on red . |
| 10 | She rocked the baby in her arms , refusing to put her down for a minute , and she sang snatches of lullabies she remembered her mother singing so many years ago . |
| 11 | Jehan was used to the kind of council at which nearly everything was decided before the participants sat down to talk , and he wondered why Alexei was allowing so much disruption and argument . |
| 12 | After enjoying so many years of unquestioning servility from David , it infuriated him to know that Beth did not feel threatened by him . |
| 13 | By drawing so many men into the services , the war may also have enabled the wages of labourers to keep in touch with prices , assisted by the local increase in demand from the construction of London docks . |
| 14 | Li-Cheng-i , a Presbyterian participant , described the exhibition as as ‘ breakthrough in bringing so many people together . ’ |
| 15 | The trouble is , we 're bringing so much stuff in it 's just the amount of space ! |
| 16 | Gold eagles were struck to save handling so many dollar pieces , and bronze was needed to provide small change . |
| 17 | I congratulate the hon. Member for Eccles ( Miss Lestor ) o securing this debate and on mobilising so much support from her side of the House . |
| 18 | Using so many spices helped to disguise the fact that the food was often far from fresh . |
| 19 | Many of my volunteers commented on how much they enjoyed eating so much fruit and vegetables and how much fitter they felt , so I have no doubt that it is the reduction of fat and the increase in better , healthier food that together helped produce such positive benefits . |
| 20 | My boyfriend commented that surely I could n't lose weight eating so much food ! |
| 21 | Perhaps it is because the fishermen have been demonstrating so much recently that they have not been catching so much fish . ’ |
| 22 | In a letter he attacked Mr Brown for ‘ wasting so much time and energy on an issue which is totally irrelevant to the concerns of the British people . ’ |
| 23 | Why is wasting so much time ? |
| 24 | ‘ But we were producing so much effluent it flooded and we had to rent a small piece of land specifically for effluent disposal , ’ explained Dai . |
| 25 | The human race is producing so much information — it is n't factual information , we 're not just looking at price movements of stocks and shares , but in the scientific community it 's very much to do with ideas and how that person can get across his ideas , his concepts to people to half a world away . |
| 26 | The human race is producing so much information . |
| 27 | Distribution in conjunction with a particular publication can be expensive both in the distribution fee and in the cost of producing so many copies . |
| 28 | In the late 1980s , the Japanese , with their own US plants producing so many cars that they had little need to import more , and with voluntary quotas unfilled , decided to reclassify light commercial vehicles as cars . |
| 29 | She blamed her mother for thoughtlessly producing so many children . |
| 30 | How could he have completed so many plays , as well as formulating the beer which bears his name and opening so many tea rooms ? |