Example sentences of "[adv] so [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were eventually so many people there that new arrivals simply gave Patrick a glance and a nod , assuming that he fitted somewhere into the team . |
| 2 | When the supply comes onto the market , right so this thing here is the expectation of price in P T , when the supply comes onto the market right and that expectation is formed at T minus one , right so at the beginning of the year farmers make some forecast or some expectation of prices when the crop will come onto the market in T , right and then they form that expectation or that prediction , right , at the beginning of the period , or at the end of the last one , T minus one . |
| 3 | Until recently it was Chinese Americans who were the most feared of poker immigrants — above all Johnny Chan , back-to-back world champ in 1988-'89 , known as the ‘ Oriental Express ’ because he rakes in so many pots so fast . |
| 4 | Today we all have access to the speed , warmth and comfort of cars , buses , trains and planes , if that is we have the money , if there is a service running when we want it to where we want to go and if there is n't already so much traffic ahead of us choking the roads , polluting the atmosphere that we wished we stayed at home . |
| 5 | He was on the rocky slope he knew already from more than one climb , and somewhere here on these smoother protected faces of rock were the plans he had scratched and pondered over so many months ago . |
| 6 | so I said well it cost us just so many weeks though , I 've put it in again , I 've , I 'm sending it back today in the hope that they will come up with a decision in the next week , cos usually once they 've got the information they 'll write back say within ten days yes or no |
| 7 | The problem is that the Labour party dodges all the important European issues because its conversion to the EC is not so much skin deep as ruled purely by expediency . |
| 8 | It 's trying to do the same work with the smaller amount of blood as it did with the full amount , ten pints perhaps reduced down to seven , got to keep pump , pump , pump , pump , pump , pump , pump , because that little bit of blood has got to get round and do a lot more work now , okay , so the blood 's rushing round and the heart is pushing faster because it 's having to , because it 's not enough of the , not so much pressure there , that 's why it feels weak , weak and fast , okay ? |
| 9 | ‘ There 's not so much snow there . ’ |
| 10 | Well they 're not so much children actually they were about eighteen . |
| 11 | The movements did not so much drift apart as come to represent opposed interests . |
| 12 | It 's still very macho , not so many women yet ? |
| 13 | Soft ground , trodden flat by uneasy , shifting feet not so many hours ago . |
| 14 | Not so many years ago parents would have thought nothing of their children walking two or three miles to school in the morning and back again in the afternoon . |
| 15 | Not so many years ago , museums were definitely rather sombre and sobering places . |
| 16 | Not so many years ago , this would have been a non-question : Christians believed that the Star was one of God 's miracles , while scientists , by and large , believed that the whole story was a myth . |
| 17 | Tabitha liked it well enough as it was , though she remembered better days , not so many years ago , when the jazz bands in the bodegas had been almost loud enough to drown the furious rattle of the old spice prospectors playing mah-jongg . |
| 18 | ‘ Not so many years ago it would have taken me a little longer myself . |
| 19 | Do you know , Hugh , what the sortes sent to Roger of Salisbury , who fell into Stephen 's displeasure not so many years ago and died disgraced ? |
| 20 | Not so many years ago , a terrified young Kurdish man from Turkey sought asylum in this country . |
| 21 | so that 's not so many years ago . |
| 22 | Not so many years ago the country was covered with windmills . |
| 23 | I had slept in the bedroom myself not so many years before , and in the first light of morning had got up to see what the village might have looked like before the traffic came and before the stone walls had been breached . |
| 24 | He also always displayed apparent technical ease with the difficult rhythmic and harmonic extensions that so divided ‘ swing ’ from ‘ bebop ’ jazz performers not so many years before , and his lightning quick playing merely reinforces the impression that he was never really extended . |
| 25 | ‘ See , Jez , there 's not so many people even here on Mars who can do it right . |
| 26 | You 're making a habit of this of course , Notts County not so many weeks ago , three two the game was , and then you popped up with the equaliser right in the dying seconds . |
| 27 | Other changes , this is the Commons ' Heritage Committee of MPs who er were sitting yesterday , under their er leader Gerald Kaufman , the former Labour politician , well he still is a Labour politician , but er he 's not so high profile now in politics , but he seems to be creating a bit of a stir here . |
| 28 | dog 's not so bad walk like . |
| 29 | Above all , I do not believe the people of Britain want to see our constitutional monarchy , the ‘ eternal jewel ’ with which our political liberties are bound up , brought into danger or contention by the deceptive device once adopted so ill-advisedly so many years ago for a purpose that is past . |
| 30 | Scottish country pubs are strange places , even more so thirty years ago . |