Example sentences of "[to-vb] so [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the unemployment rate at 9.2 p.c. is , for the first time , on a par with the average in Britain , no serious observer expects it to remain so once the economy as a whole picks up . |
| 2 | It was a considerable achievement for a society to pour so much milk , so much orange juice , so many vitamins down the throats of its children , for the height and weight of those children to outstrip so fast the measurements of only a decade before . |
| 3 | Anything at all that hinders or prevents the energy factory from doing its job throws a plant into a lower gear , and it has to work so much the harder to make progress . |
| 4 | What had happened to destroy so utterly the Paradise Restored of Thomas Baskerville , the neat town of Celia Fiennes , the exquisite spot of Charles Deering , to destroy it in the short space of three generations ? |
| 5 | As we had managed to walk so far the previous day , we were fairly high up in the mountains , and knew that the fog could take as long as 48 hours to clear . |
| 6 | Although the council had so far managed to hold a balance , its ability to do so once the king was crowned was more doubtful . |
| 7 | Although the council had so far managed to hold a balance , its ability to do so once the king was crowned was more doubtful . |
| 8 | It is our interests , rather than those of a degenerate and selfish minority , that the police should protect ; and if the law at present does not allow them to do so then the law must be changed . |
| 9 | AT THAT difficult and defiant age of 19 , it is perhaps quite extraordinary that The Prayer Boat have chosen to study so closely the catalogues of The Waterboys and Van Morrison — old men , of their fathers ' generation . |
| 10 | It was the trading contacts that he had established in Spain which enabled his firm , after his death , to exploit so efficiently the opportunities afforded in South America after its liberation from Spanish control . |