Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun sg] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was powerful enough to swallow the heavy might of a world superpower , and to affect that country so greatly , that it dominated the politics in the States for over ten years and massive pressure was put on the government by the US people . |
| 2 | And there had been a few lines from Ellen , proving that Oreste so far from being carried to heaven by an angel was firmly rooted in East Retford and had grown another two inches . |
| 3 | If they had not been in the habit of seeing each other so often , at least once a week and sometimes more , talking on the phone every day , that appalling suggestion might have driven a bolt through their friendship , eventually destroying it . |
| 4 | Lineker added : ‘ It was great that he got that goal so late in the game , to produce a vital result for his side . |
| 5 | Robson was , in one sense , simply echoing the words of Maitland that ‘ if you take up a modern volume of the reports of the Queen 's Bench division , you will find that about half the cases reported have to do with rules of administrative law ’ and that you must ‘ not neglect their existence in your general description of what English law is ’ otherwise ‘ you will frame a false and antiquated notion of our constitution ’ The fact that Robson felt the need to propound this view so strongly , and that Maitland 's thoughts seemed to have been almost entirely neglected , serve to indicate that conservative normativism had by the 1920s become established as the dominant tradition . |
| 6 | Do I want this job so badly ? she asked herself for the hundredth time . |
| 7 | Or were the acts which produced this end so far away from them in time that somehow the temporal distance anaesthetised reality ? |
| 8 | As he looked at her , slumped awkwardly in sleep , he tried without success to put his finger on that indefinable something which made this girl so totally English . |
| 9 | My real interest — beyond my own cancer — was the world I had just entered , those twin factors that made this visit so very different from my last one , age and illness . |
| 10 | Like the HMIs , I have more or less avoided this question so far , mainly by talking about ‘ curriculum managers ’ . |
| 11 | Because males and females of this species encounter each other so infrequently , when they do meet they will remain stuck together for several months . |
| 12 | The Fynn Valley professional has enjoyed little success so far this year — he has made the cut in just one tournament — and his latest downfall was in the Spanish Open where rounds of 76 and 73 kept him out of the prize money . |
| 13 | Nothing illustrates this point so clearly as the fate of a paper published in 1874 by C. Nägeli entitled Verdrängung der Pflanzenformen durch ihre Mitbewerber . |
| 14 | They have pursued this dream so fiercely that they can not afford to admit any self-doubt . |
| 15 | ‘ they 're going to give it to me for being such a nice chap and because I want this guitar so badly . ’ |
| 16 | Also , where the company subsequent to granting a floating charge containing a negative pledge provision purchases property leaving part of the purchase secured by a mortgage , the mortgage will take priority , even if the mortgage has actual notice so long as what the company acquired was the equity of redemption subject to the mortgage . |
| 17 | Arrived at La Vachey to find worse accommodation so far . |
| 18 | but a lot of those were tiddlers , that that that maybe it maybe it 's better to use experienced investigators , and and because they can do that work so much more quickly anyway , I I do n't know , I feel a bit uncomfortable with this one year contract . |
| 19 | ‘ They do n't do that swaddling so much nowadays , ’ said Harvey . |
| 20 | ‘ Can I ask you why you hold that opinion so vociferously ? ’ , |
| 21 | A day or two later she was to receive another surprise so far as animals were concerned when the ginger kitten , more adventurous than his brothers , found his way into the cabin where the Dalmatian was suckling her pups and joined in the free feast . |
| 22 | Have n't noticed any difference so far this year . |
| 23 | There 's no other way to explain the fact that he 's been allowed to buy that land so cheaply . |
| 24 | Hogarth also makes a miniature , three-tier ‘ recession beater ’ , but has had little interest so far . |
| 25 | Lastly , where the LDDC has belatedly entered into ‘ agreements ’ with local authorities , such as with Newham and Tower Hamlets , and helped to set up training schemes like SKILLNET , designed to improve the skill levels of local communities , it has had little impact so far on getting local people into Docklands jobs . |
| 26 | Do n't use that word so lightly . |
| 27 | Did you not find it as strange as I did , that we should so immediately understand each other so well ? |
| 28 | But they had had this conversation so often and to such little purpose that he had long ago abandoned his part of the dialogue . |
| 29 | No , no I ca n't I just ca n't eat so I 'm not forcing myself to eat , what I 'm trying to do is only to eat the right things and I must start vitamin supplements I think I 've got the age when I probably need that , I mean , this cold is a warning to me that my immune system is not as strong as it ought to be , I should n't have had another cold so soon after getting rid of one ! |
| 30 | this is for fun … the Oxford board will decide but they watch central south so here 's your chance … we 've a shortlist of ten … first is Steve Coppell … he left Palace at the end of last season after nine years as manager … lots of experience … or how about Ray Clemence the ex England goalie … he lost his job at Spurs in the summer and would welcome a manager 's job … he could work with Doug Livermore who was also pushed aside when Ossie Ardiles moved into White Hart Lane … |