Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] so [adv] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even mention of ‘ cut and sew ’ never evoked the groans I so often hear in the UK , as most of the knitters realise , as I do , the value of this technique . |
| 2 | ‘ If it had n't gone through this time , I would have had no time left in my life to enter the ministry I so dearly want to join . |
| 3 | But then we have to move with Ulysses to a huge spinning-top of words which defies such judgements and leaves us clutching at apparently familiar images which so sooner appear than they are gone . |
| 4 | That comment under-estimates the growing interest which shareholders are beginning to take in the wider responsibilities of the companies they invest in ( eg , support for arts , education , health , environment or indeed anything which contributes to an increase in the quality of life ) , and its cynicism can only alienate the executives whose involvement in their companies ' patronage we so badly need to encourage and applaud . |
| 5 | Oh , Charles dear , this is an honour you so richly deserve . |
| 6 | We are able to give them the independence they so badly need , and with it self respect and dignity . |
| 7 | To do so it is necessary to examine the origins of our literary expectations which so frequently assume that the best literary experience deals with individuals capable of making moral distinctions and to question the pejorative critical formulations which tend to accompany assessments of characters as vehicles for ideas : caricature , static , incompletely realised , and so on . |
| 8 | ‘ Of the ugliness you so helpfully mention . |
| 9 | The period you so fondly remember was dominated by activist and economically unschooled regulators and judges . |
| 10 | I am pleased that I will be working even more closely with Carmen , whose expertise and uncompromising literary tastes I so greatly admire . ’ |
| 11 | This , however , is commonly the experience of the monitoring teams who so often contain nationals from the countries from which news of war and disaster is coming . |
| 12 | Because certainly the thing that particularly struck me about these design and technology A levels which so often seem to be sort of er erm a contrived project , not not a real one . |
| 13 | But he is also an American and before he guns you down in cold blood , in the manner you so justly deserve I might add , I 'm sure he will see his way clear to giving you a dying request . ’ |
| 14 | Are these the gifts you so grandly claim to have bestowed on mankind ? |
| 15 | I have asked that the United Nations hold a conference this month to ensure that the UNHCR 's vital work continues not only in Iraq but in helping all the people who so desperately need our assistance . |
| 16 | It has been a great triumph for France 's construction and agricultural engineers , a dazzling testimony to the industry and enterprise of a people who so often appear , to those who do not know them , to be in a perpetual state of political and economic chaos . |
| 17 | So , even if those around you can not change the situation which is causing your grief , they can give you the warmth , love and compassion you so badly need . |
| 18 | The column that gives the frustrated writing talents of the PR and hype business the exposure they so richly deserve |
| 19 | Will you help us provide the basic hygiene and nutritional teaching they so desperately need ? |
| 20 | The wars which so frequently rage in the Middle East are almost invariably born of such allegiances and are frequently claimed to be necessary to protect one particular religion or version or derivative of it . |
| 21 | It is a chance to go in your mind to a special place , known only to you , where you can find the peace and serenity you so desperately need . |
| 22 | This highlighted the real success of such operations — the netting of the big men behind the scenes who so often escape while the small-fry are caught red-handed . |
| 23 | Instead of the doctors and nurses we so urgently need , we have an army of bureaucrats which has expanded from 700 to 13,200 in the same time . |
| 24 | The annual report from the Central Transport Consultative Committee warns that unless cash is ploughed in ‘ we will still not have the rail system we so urgently need ’ . |
| 25 | One of the men in the physiology department of the university here is taking them tomorrow as he is to stay with for a week , who is due home c. 13th and then the judge in whose house I so often stay in London IS coming for a long weekend c. 19th and then I have two or three B&B bods for Festival , giving up our bedroom ( UGH ) . |
| 26 | That elected governments find it necessary to bow to the wishes of big privately owned companies , that the organs which so largely shape public opinion can be bought and sold by millionaires and treated by them simply as pieces of private property ( which is ' of course , what they are ) , demonstrates how difficult it is for an active and effective democracy to coexist with monopoly capitalism . |