Example sentences of "[verb] so [adv] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Possibly they are priests or temple attendants wearing animal masks : the Minoan religion had certainly not developed so far that such things were incongruous . |
| 2 | But what of Dorothy 's reputation , which she herself had guarded so zealously all these years ? |
| 3 | Names fit so well some still ‘ ave ‘ em , though she haint been round for years . |
| 4 | She turns me up , she looks so bleeding bored all day . " |
| 5 | Judges are allowed to disqualify any competitor not considered to be ‘ walking ’ , but some walk so quickly that high-speed cameras are needed to make sure the walker is not in fact running . |
| 6 | SALARIES for university law teachers have slipped so badly and professional salaries risen so dramatically that experienced staff are being lost at an alarming rate , the Committee of Heads of University Law Schools reported this week . |
| 7 | Indeed , pre-existing opportunities have contracted as a result of the sale of council houses , which has proceeded at faster rates in more attractive suburban-type locations ( Forrest and Murie , 1983 ; Kleinman and Whitehead , 1987 ) , while the prices in the owner-occupied sector have risen so far that first-time buyers appear increasingly to be excluded from the housing market ( NBS , 1986 ) . |
| 8 | Below Tg , however , the viscosity has risen so far that rapid crystallization is not possible and the material remains in the disordered glassy state . |
| 9 | ‘ She did n't look so breathtakingly confident last night , darling , ’ Margaret Stanhope said to the radio set . |
| 10 | They were jumping up and putting their paws up so they I went up back upstairs and they sk tried to skid up but they were going so quickly that one of them went down the step again . |
| 11 | He 's got so much older these last few years . ’ |
| 12 | While specific expectations of education vary , they tend to do so around three key expectations , that the education service will support the national economy , make good citizens and enable young people to make the most of their various talents . |
| 13 | Darby 's conviction , after a six-week trial , was the first of its kind and Mr David Mellor , the Home Office Minister , said last night : ‘ I am glad it has been demonstrated so clearly that luring youngsters into the crime of drug pushing carries with it a severe penalty . |
| 14 | When the latter start sinking out of sight , their revealed folly appears so deep that previous adoption by certifiably sane human beings becomes difficult to credit . |
| 15 | The planters might have been expected to see that slavery in the West Indies was wastefully debilitating , for the slaves died so fast that new ones had continuously to be brought in . |
| 16 | His pride was shared by the rest of the family who were there in the front pews behind them — Hana , with little Jitka in her arms , Uncle Mick , who looked so much older all of a sudden , Carmella , who was much the same , but Joey had lost a lot of his old sunny quality and slumped sullenly in his place . |
| 17 | Alas for the purity of the LEC , however ; by the time of the second edition ( 1974 ) the number of facets had increased so considerably that such unpronounceable symbols as Lmn , Jbb , Dvv , had crept in . |
| 18 | Hall 's ideas , which he was later to endorse strongly ( Hall , 1982a ; 1982b ) were based on the idea that inner-urban decline in some British cities had gone so far that orthodox approaches to regeneration would not work . |
| 19 | The one Quiss had dumped in the gruel saw the huge fur-clad figure of the human and started shaking so hard that little flecks of soupy stuff flew off It , like water from a dog . |
| 20 | He spoke so gently that Scarlet half rose from her stool : it was bad enough going mad without causing your husband to pity you . |
| 21 | Where lava erupts from a single vent a low exogenous dome may be formed from a succession of flows , but basaltic lava flows so readily that such features will only develop on nearly level surfaces . |
| 22 | Another of Mr. Talbot 's activities was the loaning of money at a fair old rate of interest but he did not believe in spending a penny to smarten his premises from which the paint was peeling so badly that bare wood was revealed . |
| 23 | Batteries are held so firmly that good contact is maintained even if the female terminals splay . |
| 24 | One thing that 's helping me through it , aside from my chats with Irene , is that Tod and I are feeling so damn good these days : physically . |
| 25 | We have shown that these word matches occur so frequently that competing hypotheses can not be pursued and compared over the length of the entire utterance . |
| 26 | Some prefer dihydrocodeine , but this substitutes so poorly that large quantities may be needed , and it often leaves many prisoners suffering considerably . |
| 27 | Yet it remains that , for the first time in 15 years and since the controversy over abortion , opinions are divided so haphazardly that traditional political alliances have ceased to operate . |