Example sentences of "[adv] so [adj] [subord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it 's just so sexual as well , you know , for children from four upwards , I just think it 's really bad . |
| 2 | There is not so much as even a prima facie case for imagining that the ad hoc domestic forces available for the Latin music and the English devotional settings bore any close resemblance to the stereotyped and institutionalized vocal dispositions ( SAATB , succeeding SATB and SATTB ) supplied by the contemporary church choir ; these several bodies of music need to be addressed separately . |
| 3 | Probably not so much as previously . |
| 4 | In those days , children were not so sheltered as now from the pressures of adult life , and the exploitation of child prodigies for material gain was not frowned upon . |
| 5 | The Act is perhaps not so clear where only the claimant with a possessory title is before the court , for example , because the true owner does not appear or can not be found . |
| 6 | It is worth mentioning that the final is not so theoretical as perhaps believed : 40 per cent of the marks are allocated in the practical paper . |
| 7 | No doubt his model was better , and the Niobid Painter 's Peirithous is not so bad though still not a great success . |
| 8 | It 's really , I mean next year I was sort of quite co I 'm quite committed to not having a year off so much as just exploring things and that 's what |
| 9 | They 're not really so complicated as perhaps they might look in the first place . |
| 10 | But in the period covered by this book society was not quite so hierarchical as before or after ; nor did a man 's place in the sun depend on the number and dignity of his ancestors . |
| 11 | In east Germany and Prussia , for example , the peasant was not quite so poor as elsewhere , but he was disciplined to the estate by legal devices which seem to have been as powerful a stimulus to rural emigration as poverty . |
| 12 | Czechoslovakia is better off than the other East European nations and has committed 2 per cent of its investment to environmental projects , but there once again are to be found the same dreary environmental statistics of rivers poisoned , sewage untreated , sulphur dioxide deposited and trees dying , even if the figures are not quite so bad as elsewhere . |
| 13 | If we are to take this speech as accurate reportage within the conventions of deathbed narratives , is there not something a little remarkable in Leapor 's assuring her friend and patron that she has always loved her father , though never so much as now , when she is dying ? |
| 14 | He replied , ‘ the unity of the masses with the party was never so strong as now . |