Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A further 6,000 soldiers from Nigeria 's army were demobbed at the end of June , bringing the total reduction so far to 15,000 . |
| 2 | I have n't suffered on the normal service so far . |
| 3 | There was a strength and hardness about their voices that took away the pride he had felt at disposing of the hooded crow so effectively . |
| 4 | Why was the interim report so hastily released ? |
| 5 | The German Idealist tradition was born out of the rejection of British empiricism and some political commentators have urged that the legacy of this can still be seen in the idea that ‘ the Germans have only really to desire change in order to achieve basic changes in their position , and that these changes would in consequence alter the European scene so radically as to produce the longed-for peace ’ . |
| 6 | The biggest mistake that we have made so far is the one that critics of the European Community so often turn against us — the fact that we were absent when the common agricultural policy was established . |
| 7 | Situated on Brighton Seafront close to the famous West Pier , the Brighton Hotel offers elegance , luxury and comfort , coupled with the friendly service so often lacking in the larger establishment . |
| 8 | This followed reports that Israel had expropriated over 8,000 hectares of land in the occupied territories so far in 1991 , compared with only some 600 hectares in the whole of 1988 . |
| 9 | Heavily patterned carpeting may seem a good idea , concealing ground in crumbs and cigarette burns until the cleaners get to work , but there are alternatives to the garish patterns so often selected for public areas . |
| 10 | This Fact Sheet will be followed by a series of Briefing Papers for MPs , which will go beyond the facts to a description of the types of arguments that have been employed by researchers to study the causes of unemployment , including the possible effects so far as they are known of various remedies that have been proposed . |
| 11 | The value of the political talks so far has been to expose three basic truths . |
| 12 | The political party so long lubricated and cajoled by the Transport and General workers is expressing interest in private toll roads and pricing the use of public roads . |
| 13 | In this way the man and his sheep may linger in our minds , even if we do not remember the economic difficulties so clearly — ‘ The Last of the Flock ’ would make a good title for a Victorian narrative painting . |
| 14 | Income during the year had risen by 8% in real terms to £52.4m , and sales of souvenirs and gifts , which fell by 1% , were the only casualty of the economic climate so far . |
| 15 | This is a remarkable achievement , for his contemporaries ( except for some economists ) are now forgotten , even by highly educated men and women , or else they have weathered the intervening century so badly that intellectual archaeologists can once more discover forgotten merits in their writings . |
| 16 | But this is the penalty all pioneers must suffer , for we all operate within the narrow confines of the knowledge and attitudes of our day , and before condemning us entirely , it is to be hoped that future students will appreciate that their own work would be that much more difficult , but for the solid foundations so meticulously laid down by John Pearson Gillam . |
| 17 | The feminine beauty so parsimoniously revealed is , almost always , taken calmly by the sardonic , fatalistic hunter but he does see beyond the woman : |
| 18 | Corbett became tired of her constant witticisms and sly innuendoes so she transferred her attention to Ranulf , who was overjoyed to see the tedium of staying in a manor on the Scottish coast so pleasantly broken . |
| 19 | Getting the newcomer to the Broken Drum so easily was a stroke of luck , no doubt of it , and Ymor would probably reward him . |
| 20 | The first cry is associated with ‘ The change of Philomel , by the barbarous king/ So rudely forced ’ . |
| 21 | Firstly , as we have earlier shown , old people are not valued in the same way as children ; their suffering does not pull at the public heart-strings so strongly . |
| 22 | The favourite exhibit so far , with , with the first party of schoolchildren is the one that 's called safety in the dark . |
| 23 | This may well be a pleasurable and interesting occupation but it will not in any way further the quest for the universal philosophy so urgently needed , unless those students and specialist authorities use the opportunities afforded them to serve humanity more widely and wisely than by merely producing yet more literature for yet more students . |
| 24 | To sum up , the recommended procedure so far is : |
| 25 | Did this mean that the historical sequence so far set up had to be modified to accommodate much more variety , and was the specifically European focus of the scheme in some way too parochial ? |
| 26 | By this time , with the top tom-cats so sexually exhausted , even some of the masculine runts may risk a quick mating . |
| 27 | This was an outstanding achievement , since we began the dinner ( with Avocado aux Crevettes de Blackpool ) unsettlingly divided : the organisers ( Central Office again ) had expanded the Top Table so ridiculously , in an attempt to flatter those who care about such things , that all of us who were n't on it were consumed with envy . |
| 28 | This can not have been untypical — the late medieval Weald was far from being the empty desert so often described . |
| 29 | We need to be innovative and extrovert , looking to the future and the continued enhancement of the Institute and I think we will always be enriched by the direct entrants so long as these continue to be strictly monitored . |
| 30 | I can not think of a more patsy , unquestioning system better designed to produce the cosy relationship about which the hon. Gentleman so frequently speaks . |