Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] so [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have no idea why the body could not have been built directly onto the chassis at ground level for so much effort would have been saved . |
| 2 | Struggling to hold back tears , Mr Parry added : ‘ If my son becomes a symbol for peace and gives everyone a new sense of hope after so much tragedy , then that will be Tim 's unique achievement . ’ |
| 3 | She knew in her heart that he had told the truth , and it had been herself at fault for so lacking trust in his integrity . |
| 4 | But if we hold to the idea of democracy as popular power , then it is clear that the concentration of so much power in non-accountable hands , outside the control of elected bodies , is incompatible with democracy . |
| 5 | In view of the number of working and pleasure horses in the kingdom , when the phrase ‘ horsepower ’ meant literally just that , and the concentration of dairy cows around and even within the metropolis , and also the growing number of pets in middle-class households , it is strange that the demands of so many animal owners , some wealthy or even extremely rich , had not led to the development of a proper profession competent to deal with animal diseases , just as the professions of physician , surgeon and apothecary had burgeoned to meet public demand at the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th centuries . |
| 6 | There I was , sitting forlornly , chin on knees , on an oceanic bed dotted with small paper bags and smaller cardboard packets like so much flotsam — waiting for my lover . |
| 7 | I would like to thank you all for my card with so many good-will get-well messages , the lovely flowers and the Smiths ' voucher . |
| 8 | It was n't what he said but more the way he said it , imbuing the words with so much meaning that she glared at him . |
| 9 | But the strikers who have fought over so many months with so much courage and strength have achieved another kind of victory — they have exposed once and for all the myth of the TUC 's solidarity with exploited workers and in the process of doing so they have redefined the methods and outlook of industrial struggle . |
| 10 | The experiential approach is seeking to supply a missing ingredient in so much education including RE , that of genuine involvement and learning to become aware of the depths in one 's own experience . |
| 11 | The implementation of such a large energy programme in so little time posed many financial and industrial problems , and also problems of siting and public acceptance . |
| 12 | I have put it to the inspector at the claims branch that there must be many cases of this kind which have been settled by local inspectors without so much correspondence ; his reply is that local inspectors are under instruction to pass the cases to claims branch . |
| 13 | Finally , at a sad time for Rosamund and myself , our sincerest thanks to so many rugby friends who have extended , through kind words and deeds , their sympathies to us on the tragic death , after a short illness , of our daughter Charlotte . |
| 14 | The values of SO 2 absorption cross-sections adopted in this work are taken from ref. 19 for the 180–235 nm region and from ref. 14 for the 260–390 nm region . |
| 15 | And how interesting was the way in which it took advantage of so little light as to shine enough for me to see it so clearly . |
| 16 | MS-DOS 7 will have full 32-bit internals but no 32-bit programming interface , InformationWeek reports , because , Microsoft says , developers have taken advantage of so many 16-bit MS-DOS features that moving to a 32-bit programming interface would be virtually impossible . |
| 17 | MS-DOS 7 will have full 32-bit internals but no 32-bit programming interface , InformationWeek reports , because , Microsoft says , developers have taken advantage of so many 16-bit MS-DOS features that moving to a 32-bit programming interface would be virtually impossible . |
| 18 | With the demolition of so much property at the centre of Birkenhead there has been a significant decline in the number of St Laurence 's parishioners . |
| 19 | Ah the sort of things , the sort of optimism that culminated in that y'know all those Alex Comfort books , Alex Comfort Industries plc , the Joy of Sex , More Joy of Sex , Yet More Joy of Sex y'know kind of er erm y'know kind of er erm y'know kind of so much joy of sex I 'm thrilled to death y'know this kind of kind of er all these things , Joy of S Joy of Safer Sex as it is now , trying to leap on the bandwagon . |
| 20 | There had been high spots , of course — particularly the grand couloir , with its subterranean lake and its vast stalactites overhanging the uncannily still green water — but the presence of so much technology and the chattering tourists had the effect of reducing a natural wonder to the level of a modern theme park . |
| 21 | The romantic charm of so much Sussex folklore has concealed the basic violence of smuggling , its support through many levels of society , and the fact that it was possibly the largest single local industry after agriculture until the repeal of protective tariffs in the 1840s killed the need for it almost immediately . |
| 22 | Nature requires some compensating feature in any ecological setting for the expenditure and consumption of so much energy . |
| 23 | From the granite-grey clubhouse of the Royal & Ancient ( R&A ) its secretary , Michael Bonallack , enjoys a sweeping view down the 18th fairway of the Old Course , with the green of the Road Hole , the scene of so many golfing triumphs and disasters , beyond . |
| 24 | Silverstone , scene of so much excitement in recent years . |
| 25 | What an inglorious end to what had once been a busy loco shed that had been the scene of so much activity in its heyday . |
| 26 | Moreover , whereas America has a substantial history of the employment of professionals trained for their role ( most states lay down a minimum requirement of so many credit hours in education and library science at undergraduate and postgraduate levels ) , by far the majority of secondary school libraries in Britain are run in a few supposedly " free " periods during a week , by classroom teachers with little or no librarianship training . |
| 27 | The memory was still fresh of the time when he was considered a world-beater , and in receipt of so much weight from Arkle he could certainly be given a realistic chance . |
| 28 | Tarentaise and Dolomitan old-timers could not recall a winter with so much snow before Christmas . |
| 29 | Yes , I know it looks like an inverted yacht and that the garde that the D series was avant never materialised , but a production-line car which combines such a ridiculously optimistic view of the public 's aesthetic sensibilities with so much understanding of daily long-distance driving has to have a lot going for it . |
| 30 | One cello player , at least , swept his bow with so much passion that he seemed likely to roll off the platform . |