Example sentences of "[noun] of so [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Nature requires some compensating feature in any ecological setting for the expenditure and consumption of so much energy . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Silverstone , scene of so much excitement in recent years . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | By this he did not mean the philosophical proofs of God 's existence or the natural religion which had been the focus of so much discussion in the eighteenth century , and which he and Barth , like Schleiermacher and Ritschl before them , had rejected . |
| 18 | Poor Jacob would have marvelled if he could have known that he was the focus of so much activity . |
| 19 | The standardised testing of children aged seven and 14 , currently the focus of so much controversy in Britain , will at best tell parents and teachers how well children are doing at learning the facts and basic skills . |
| 20 | He spoke of the need to ‘ discern the signs of the times ’ : ‘ We should make our own Jesus ’ advice that we should know how to discern ‘ the signs of the times ’ ( Matthew 16.4 ) , and we seem to see now , in the midst of so much darkness , a few hints which augur well for the fate of the Church and humanity' ( Abbott , p. 704 ) . |
| 21 | He talks of the ‘ undefeated ones ’ in the midst of so much defeat . |
| 22 | Which is the purest bull , I know : any second now — so invasively , so grimly , and on the basis of so little acquaintance — Tod 's going to stick his finger up the poor guy 's ass . |
| 23 | Norwegian conservationists are furious that the directorate , which is reluctant to fund studies of wolves , is authorising the hunting of the endangered species on the basis of so little information . |
| 24 | PAMELA : [ generously ] I must be highly unworthy not to forgo all my little resentments for the sake of so much goodness to myself . |
| 25 | The massive stone structure has acquired a mature and acceptable appearance in these days of so much brick and concrete , and it is one of the ironies of the philosophy of conservation that the blessed bridge which Ruskin regarded as a monstrous intrusion into a beautiful natural scene should , a hundred years later , have been noisily protected from demolition by the very people who would presumably have sided with Ruskin in wishing to preserve the landscape . |
| 26 | It might seem odd during a period of so much innovation and advancement in photographic technology that a film developer formulated in 1891 should still be so popular today , over 100 years on |
| 27 | It may seem odd that during a period of so much innovation and advancement in photographic technology that a film developer formulated in 1891 should still be so popular today over 100 years on . |
| 28 | If young people posed no threat in terms of allegiance , there would have been little need of so many reform programmes . |
| 29 | In 1842 , the European proposal — which was to contain the seeds of so much grief in the next century — was accepted by the Turks ; Mount Lebanon was divided into two sectors , a Christian canton in the north and a Druze canton in the south , with the main Beirut– Damascus highway marking the boundary between them . |
| 30 | She liked the sensation of so much enjoyment around . |