Example sentences of "[verb] so [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This bugger 's salt , you know , goes so deep no diver 's ever found the bottom . |
| 2 | But from my own researches it became plain to me that she was very much a person of her times , as compared with Beatrice Webb who became so much a critic of her times . |
| 3 | Although the unemployment rate at 9.2 p.c. is , for the first time , on a par with the average in Britain , no serious observer expects it to remain so once the economy as a whole picks up . |
| 4 | Where is the scientific evidence to support so wide an onslaught ? |
| 5 | But ahortly after the heavens opened and the river level rose so high the work had to be abandoned . |
| 6 | Besides , it squeaks so loudly the Headmaster would hear you before you were halfway across . ’ |
| 7 | I dare say that is why you were induced to accept so low a wage . ’ |
| 8 | We have not stressed so frequently the importance of liaison with our own colleagues , arguing ( with sometimes dubious validity ) that because it ‘ happens all the time ’ it does not need to be explicitly provided . |
| 9 | The causes he pursued so vigorously no doubt satisfied some deep , emotional void . |
| 10 | The more products , the higher number of prospects will be interested , although a balance has to be struck so as not to provide so wide a range as to make it confusing . |
| 11 | Their Empire holds so short a Reign ; |
| 12 | Each member contributed so much a week to form a common fund . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , on the material before the court , it was not necessary to impose so long a term of imprisonment . |
| 14 | So , when Mr Goodman enquired about him , George was eager to come to Selhurst Park and most Palace historians agree that , had he done so even a month before the end of 1924–25 , the Palace would never have been relegated from Division Two . |
| 15 | What had happened to destroy so utterly the Paradise Restored of Thomas Baskerville , the neat town of Celia Fiennes , the exquisite spot of Charles Deering , to destroy it in the short space of three generations ? |
| 16 | Though initially little more than special pleading for Liverpool shipping interests , his journalism taught him radical attitudes , most notably a hatred of the Foreign Office , for according so low a priority to West Africa , and a sympathy for African culture , which was reinforced by meeting the traveller Mary Kingsley [ q.v. ] in 1899 . |
| 17 | I recall how disappointed I was in the morning to discover that the pebbles I had collected so lovingly the evening before were just a pile of dull stones now that they had dried and were away from the beach . |
| 18 | Surprised at being disturbed so roughly the nag jerked forward suddenly , the jolt snapped the rickety bodged-up slatting and the gramophone fell into the bottom of the cabinet . |
| 19 | It came so fast the keeper hardly saw it so for him and for all Hereford fans here it is in slow motion |
| 20 | In a country where education had expanded so rapidly the gap between young and old had accelerated so teaching the adults to read and write was becoming urgent . |
| 21 | What strange quirk of the heart made me feel so much a part of the life of this place ? |
| 22 | That epicanthic fold over the eye , which seemed so much a part of the android 's ‘ difference ’ — its machine-nature — was here , on the natural man , quite attractive . |
| 23 | But , to her relief , the voice that greeted her from the other side of the oak door , though indistinct , was that of the porter she had met so briefly the evening before . |
| 24 | Did I look so obviously the sort to get into trouble that I could n't go about with circles under my eyes , or telephone a doctor , or throw up once in a while , without everyone immediately jumping to a single conclusion ? |
| 25 | She knew that even if Miss Clinton had n't had so long a start , her daddy would have little hope of catching her up in his old car . |
| 26 | Sweeney shocks because he shows so clearly the effect of lack of themis . |
| 27 | Hard to remember , between readings , that Brideshead and Nineteen Eighty-Four are funny books : one recalls so vividly the gravity of their themes , so little the gaiety of their prose , that a rereading can easily surprise . |
| 28 | Whenever I hear a man being witty or sensible or kindly or civilized I think : the qualities which now seem so much a part of this man could be stripped away at any time , and there would be left just a man who suffered and who fought with his suffering like an animal . |
| 29 | Because the sun shone so brightly the slate roof blazed like a slab of silver . |
| 30 | I mean he 'd he 'd use so often the experience of the people who were listening , so when a went down to , they all knew what he was talking about . |