Example sentences of "[noun] that [verb] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He reduces it to this petty party political level and then he makes excuses for all the lowest-performing local authorities , which are Labour-controlled , and resists any idea that we should address the teaching methods that have so badly let down children in Newham , Bradford and all the other areas in the bottom 20 , almost all of which are Labour controlled . |
| 2 | Several boats had followed and were waiting to transport the tourists back to a civilisation that seemed so very far away from the respite of these fascinating caves . |
| 3 | And , although she was irritated by his refusal to believe her , against her will she was still mesmerised by the blue eyes that stared so intently into her own , felt warmth steal through her when he glanced at her mouth . |
| 4 | Does he realise that we need to deal urgently with the special car tax and to review the punitive arrangements affecting company cars that have so badly hit the Jaguar car company in my constituency ? |
| 5 | She saw his mouth , the mouth that had so nearly covered hers , curve into a provocative smile . |
| 6 | It suggests the defiant flame that burned so brightly against France and New Zealand in the World Cup remains a significant Canadian strength . |
| 7 | Those demands that have so far been made have come from Slovakia , the most controversial concerning a fourteenth-century Italian Gothic altar . |
| 8 | Suddenly it was taking every atom of her will-power to stop that hand from doing what it longed to do — namely rise up and tangle with the silky black hair that curled so invitingly round Guido 's left ear . |
| 9 | Giving judgment in a case that has so far been heard in camera , Mr Justice Hoffmann ruled that Mr William Goodwin , a journalist working for The Engineer , must hand over his notes of a telephone conversation with his source . |
| 10 | They can only conclude that ‘ Either badgers waste energy with the continued digging or very large burrows confer an advantage that has so far eluded us . ’ |
| 11 | This corresponds with the concept of profit maximisation that has so far been employed above , save that the latter concept contains an ambiguity about time-scale : it does not specify the period over which profits are to be maximised . |
| 12 | A key question is how the management of the market imperfections that have so strongly influenced investment behaviour in the past will be conducted in the future . |
| 13 | The days of the truly great power portrait , the majestic Victorian and Edwardian canvases that hang so solemnly in the darker corridors of the National Portrait Gallery , have long since gone . |
| 14 | But the improvements that have so far been effective — the so-called Green Revolution programmes — have been highly energy-intensive because of their dependence on irrigation , fertilisers and mechanisation . |
| 15 | Robbie nodded , mentally apologising to him for all the scathing epithets that had so nearly tumbled from her lips . |
| 16 | For the last two or three years , Chorus has been involved with Unisys Corp in a technology exchange that has so far failed to produce any significant deliveries . |
| 17 | As we listen to these phrases that rolled so easily off the tongue , and which have also rolled on down through history to our own time , we must make a special effort to remember very carefully just who the men were who engineered the Garotter 's Act — what kind of men they were ; what kind of times they lived in ; and what forces helped to shape their upright moral certitude . |
| 18 | In Eastern Europe the opposition movements which began to grow rapidly in the 1980s were finally successful in bringing about the collapse of the communist regimes , but they have not yet been able to create an acceptable and stable new order ; nationalist movements have proliferated , and a new labour movement has emerged which contests the policy of restoring free-market capitalism that has so far produced only economic disaster . |
| 19 | As for the great Largo e mesto itself , here it 's the intensity of his phrasing that gives so sharp an edge to the sorrow . |
| 20 | ‘ No chance , ’ she stated swiftly on a light laugh , and quickly dismissed the subject by turning to her host with a query about the wine that went so well with the meal . |
| 21 | The Picture that had so nearly secured its hold faded from the refracting blankness in the instant it took Harry to realize what it was that Kingdom wanted from him . |
| 22 | It would be a poor look-out on her share of the mortgage , let alone Sebastian 's , if she lost this job that paid so well . |
| 23 | He also sent us out to a dhow in the harbour to fish ; we had never before been on a vessel that rode so close to the water . |
| 24 | As the view from its windows alters at sunset ‘ into a distant phantom ’ , so too will the house , ‘ not the first or the last of beautiful things that look so near and will so change ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ Sometimes , ’ he admits , ‘ I hear things that sound so ridiculously like something I do that it 's not funny . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Yes , speak of him , ’ said Llewelyn , looking down at the heavy ashen head that lay so still upon his arm . |
| 27 | This was BBC Television , an off-shoot of the world-renowned and world-respected BBC Radio service that had so admirably lived up to its motto to ‘ educate , inform and entertain' the general public throughout the war . |
| 28 | All this will be used as a basis for a critical scrutiny of the efforts that have so far been made to stimulate rural development , and the changing fortunes of the rural population in this part of Pakistan . |
| 29 | But mastering any chemical theory first without practical experience can leave the student in a state where he or she knows so much about the sodium atom that he can no longer appreciate the silvery metal that behaves so spectacularly on the bench . |
| 30 | ‘ Thank God , ’ he muttered , as he started to scramble down the last foot or two to seize the halter shank that dangled so near , and yet just out of his reach . |