Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [coord] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had no right to wear the tie but he felt that it was rather distinguished and so far no one had caught him out . |
| 2 | Chomsky has claimed that the principles underlying the structure of language are so specific and so highly articulated that they must be regarded as being biologically determined ; that is , as constituting part of what we call " human nature " and as being genetically transmitted from parents to children . |
| 3 | And in the depths of the forest , the humming is still strong , and the wind is still swirling all about us , and something is stirring , something that is so strong and so purely magical that no one has ever been able to resist it … |
| 4 | Many of Morse 's ideas were either so strange or so wildly improbable that most of them were always doomed to early disappointment . |
| 5 | It was so loud and so deep it was n't really sound at all , just something that turned the air hard and then hit you with it . |
| 6 | In fact , he laughed so loud and so often that One Over The Eight practically came to a halt . |
| 7 | Among those noting Xu 's habit of using just one board ( ingredients are so fresh and so quickly prepared that food poisoning is not considered a threat ) is Keith Mitchell , team captain of the British chefs competing at the culinary Olympics in Frankfurt next year , and head chef at the Grand Hotel , Eastbourne , East Sussex . |
| 8 | The spacing of such steps on pointe is so minute and so fast that it is not possible to see the change of feet as one succeeds the other . |
| 9 | It 's pouring down with rain , bitterly cold , extremely muddy and so far only half the PA 's turned up . |
| 10 | It was actually against Brighton ( 10–1 ) , here at Selhurst Park on 3 January 1942 in a wartime London League match , but even so , there can be few , if any , other players whose careers began so early and so explosively . |
| 11 | you ca n't say what you want to say because you are so nervous and so on ! |
| 12 | Third , the plight of the business may be so grave , and the selection of the individuals concerned so inevitable and so urgently required , that consultation would make absolutely no difference to the outcome . |
| 13 | The ‘ implications ’ of literacy are not so obvious nor so easily elicited or described as Goody suggests . |
| 14 | Many thanks to those who worked so hard and so well to prepare the children . |
| 15 | But , as she explained afterwards , with Seles hitting so hard and so deep , it was very difficult to play any other way against her . |
| 16 | Hindsight says that if the Lotus mechanics had n't worked so hard and so efficiently and if Emerson had n't been able to race , Jackie Stewart 's two victories in the last grands prix of the season would have given him the championship . |
| 17 | Did Daniel Ortega struggle so hard and so long , suffer seven years in jail , and defy the mighty US at such cost to his country , only to drive his jeep into the sunset ? |
| 18 | Did Daniel Ortega struggle so hard and so long , suffer seven years in jail , and defy the mighty US at such cost to his country , only to drive his jeep into the sunset ? |
| 19 | Perhaps in this case the injunction can be ignored since the pattern is so widespread and so instinctively attractive . |
| 20 | The poster at the end of the tunnel was so large and so perfectly lit that it seemed to O , looking up at it suddenly , that the tunnel did not end in a wall , in fact did not end at all , but led to the green fields of France . |
| 21 | Never had his mind worked so fast or so clearly , leaping on from one conclusion to the next , some exhilarating , some appalling . |
| 22 | It happened so fast and so drastically that I nearly slid after him , managing only instinctively to pivot on one foot and throw myself headlong back onto the boards still remaining solid behind the hole . |
| 23 | Some in disbelief that a car so beautiful , so fast and so downright delicious could cost as little as £27,000 . |
| 24 | The little mouse which had run so fast and so far would now sit still in its corner . |
| 25 | All these memories are connected incoherently to my mother : the oozing uterine passage closing in on Superman ; the dead man disclosed by nuns [ so pretty and so erotically close to the nightclub ] ; and the sadness of Limelight where , sitting in the dark with her I knew her pleasure at the tale was different to mine , an adult one , beyond me . |
| 26 | Grainne arched her back like a cat , and Fergus began to peel the thin robe from her shoulders , kissing her bare skin , feeling her response , feeling the swing of her hair against his shoulders and chest , and exulting in it , for there is something so intimate and so wholly precious about the feel of a loved one 's hair against your skin … |
| 27 | Speech processing is so complex and so little understood that we want as few assumptions built into the development architecture as possible . |
| 28 | The recession might not have been so long nor so deep had she listened . |
| 29 | She had just given her body — so long and so carefully guarded — for a length of brown satin . |
| 30 | We thought he 'd burst in and take away everything we had — everything I 'd worked for so long and so hard , and he did n't deserve any of it . |