Example sentences of "[vb -s] so [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The motives for seeking office are partly that the life of a backbench MP soon becomes unsatisfactory and offers so little scope for achievement , for registering even the smallest impact on a restricted area of.public life , that the average MP looks with envy on any minister who has a positive job to perform , however limited the field . |
| 2 | Now it wo n't cure all the problems I 'm pretending that it will , but if we were to have proper seats , proper microphones , electronic voting I believe that it would show symbolically that the House of Commons was prepared to modernize itself and start doing a proper job in our democracy rather than the farce and the theatre which frankly turns so many people off in modern Britain . |
| 3 | Ciccolini is capable of very stylish virtuosity and shows this to great effect in the more extrovert pieces to which he also brings genuine humour ( as opposed to the archness which spoils so many performances of Satie 's music ) . |
| 4 | A whole pine forest produces so much pollen that ponds become covered with curds of it — and all of it wasted . |
| 5 | Edinburgh produces so many theses on geology as a whole that the number on Scottish geology is not disproportionate . |
| 6 | Equally to the point , the spectre of drastic economies that haunts so many men and women is often the result of their having only the haziest idea as to their likely income and expenditure . |
| 7 | This one is — it involves so many factors , you see . ’ |
| 8 | Trainer Simon Sherwood , Desert Orchid 's Gold Cup winning jockey , said : ‘ The whole thing involves so much hypocrisy it 's a farce . |
| 9 | This is undoubtedly the most tiring skill to learn since it involves so much swimming . |
| 10 | One explanation is that the initial infection , acquired from the ingestion of overwintered larvae in May , involves so few worms that neither clinical signs nor immunity is produced ; however , sufficient numbers of larvae are seeded on to the pasture so that by July the numbers of L3 on pasture are sufficient to produce clinical disease . |
| 11 | With this particular letter I can not say why he chose not to , but he receives so many letters that he can not physically respond to all of them . ’ |
| 12 | With this particular letter I can not say why he chose not to , but he receives so many letters that he can not physically respond to all of them . ’ |
| 13 | A south facing conservatory often receives so much sun and heat in the summer that it is not necessarily suitable for daytime entertaining , unless adequately ventilated and fitted with blinds . |
| 14 | When roles become more segregated , as they do after the birth of a baby , even when both parents continue to go out to work , people are less able to avoid their envy of the opposite sex and of the baby who receives so much care and attention . |
| 15 | It 's hunger that drives so many ballet students there , not an innate artistic urge . |
| 16 | He needs so much money ! |
| 17 | I 'd quite like to know how much like how , wheth what Darrel actually ran away from , I mean he owes so many people money . |
| 18 | We wanted a name you could remember but because our new secret-fix roofing system has so many advantages we were spoilt for choice . |
| 19 | I think that is why it has so many cinema fans and why the best cinema creators in Spain come from there . |
| 20 | Now the rate has halved because each of those estate agents has so many properties to sell that they are organising their own crowded sales . |
| 21 | But , for example , among other things I have heard one of his ‘ colleagues ’ say that there is no special trick to bringing off good performances when one has so many rehearsals . |
| 22 | The dragonfly has so many ommatidia that it can see as well as some vertebrates . |
| 23 | I just think it , I just think it 's so sad , like in London , it has so many cultures , and like , wow , it 's really good for the cultures to mix , but it does n't work , |
| 24 | The club that once prided itself on having so few injuries they could field the same team week in week out now has so many invalids they are lucky to have the same side two games running . |
| 25 | That 's why I 'd choose Madonna , too , doing ‘ Live To Tell ’ , which has so many layers of meaning that the simplicity of it can get forgotten . ’ |
| 26 | It 's no wonder America has so many shrinks . |
| 27 | That must be why Glasgow has so many museums . |
| 28 | Taking the example of the working mother : she usually has so many roles to fulfil that her needs very definitely take a back seat . |
| 29 | ‘ And he has so many patients with much worse ailments that he took quite a robust view of my case . ’ |
| 30 | Part of the problem is that the Alpha 2.0 has so many features . |