Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] so [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , however genuine the prospects of trade with the South Seas might have seemed , especially when enhanced by the right to sell slaves to the Spanish colonies granted at the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 , it is clear that so hugely capitalised a new incorporation was also intending to contest with the " big two " — the Bank of England and the East India Company — for the profits which came from dealing in the national debt . |
| 2 | It is the one-sidedness of privatisation of the monopoly public utilities that has been so apparent since the process started with British Telecom in 1985 that so deeply offends ordinary people throughout the country . |
| 3 | In the better quota samples , such quotas are interlocked : the interviewer is told how many young housewives , how many male unemployed and so on to interview . |
| 4 | Among those noting Xu 's habit of using just one board ( ingredients are so fresh and so quickly prepared that food poisoning is not considered a threat ) is Keith Mitchell , team captain of the British chefs competing at the culinary Olympics in Frankfurt next year , and head chef at the Grand Hotel , Eastbourne , East Sussex . |
| 5 | You can slide the grill pan full of their favourite sausages under the high level Sola grill and when it 's all cooked and so evenly browned the Apex 's large 2 handled grill pan pulls forward and can be either lifted right out , or left to sit safely on the safety stops . |
| 6 | His nostrils were cavernous and so finely edged that they seemed made of paper . |
| 7 | His anger was real but so continuously felt that once he had given it adequate ( in his own mind ) expression , it ceased to modify his actions . |
| 8 | 736 and so firmly reiterated in Makanjuola v. Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis is by invoking the decision of the Court of Appeal in Peach v. Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis [ 1986 ] Q.B . |
| 9 | He was sitting facing the Assistant Commissioner ( Crime ) , across a desk so neat and orderly and so well polished that you knew no serious work could be done at it . |
| 10 | Chomsky has claimed that the principles underlying the structure of language are so specific and so highly articulated that they must be regarded as being biologically determined ; that is , as constituting part of what we call " human nature " and as being genetically transmitted from parents to children . |
| 11 | Attempted cores turn out to be highly simplistic generalisations that satisfy very few people , but carry many dogmatic messages which are in fact controversial and so therefore masquerade as being objective . |
| 12 | ‘ Yeah , ’ he says , opening the cigarette case to reveal a dozen or so neatly rolled spliffs . |
| 13 | The ‘ implications ’ of literacy are not so obvious nor so easily elicited or described as Goody suggests . |
| 14 | Many thanks to those who worked so hard and so well to prepare the children . |
| 15 | Silken and smooth and so deeply loving that the pain was there again … |
| 16 | Colours are plain and strong which , despite the underlying sketchiness , makes the picture less ephemeral than it seems in black and white and so further removed from the heavenly evocation of ‘ The Zone of Love ’ . |
| 17 | The poster at the end of the tunnel was so large and so perfectly lit that it seemed to O , looking up at it suddenly , that the tunnel did not end in a wall , in fact did not end at all , but led to the green fields of France . |
| 18 | Third , the plight of the business may be so grave , and the selection of the individuals concerned so inevitable and so urgently required , that consultation would make absolutely no difference to the outcome . |
| 19 | Or coming back with bruises ; how you suddenly became so very clumsy or so easily marked . |
| 20 | The recession might not have been so long nor so deep had she listened . |
| 21 | For example ‘ Lord Of The Flies ’ on symbolism , no other book I have read is so well and so believably put together with everything fitting together perfectly . |
| 22 | They feel terrible and so perhaps decide to try twice as hard tomorrow . |
| 23 | She was a startling sight in that setting , for she was immaculately dressed in riding clothes , her breeches almost white , boots black and so highly polished I could see the flood waters reflected in them . |
| 24 | Already in November 1941 , the SD was reporting ‘ disappointment that the final smashing of Bolshevism is not taking place as rapidly as hoped and that no end of the eastern campaign is in sight ’ , a dampening of optimism at the news of the first falls of snow and the feeling that further advancement might be extremely difficult , puzzlement at the failure to advance further when the Russian troops were allegedly so poor and so badly equipped , concern at the reports of continued tough resistance of the Soviet army , and pessimism that ‘ the way to the Urals was still a long one , and the partisan war could still last a good while ’ . |
| 25 | Everyday experience is generally highly predictable and so rarely offers such surprises . |
| 26 | She had just given her body — so long and so carefully guarded — for a length of brown satin . |
| 27 | Speech processing is so complex and so little understood that we want as few assumptions built into the development architecture as possible . |
| 28 | But most of the mealtime was spent with her either backing away from his leading philandering comments , or racking her brain to think of some comments or questions of her own — other than those that so easily sprang to mind , but which all centred around his employer . |
| 29 | I have noticed this just as clearly as the above many times while half asleep in bed but never had paper handy and so never wrote it down … |
| 30 | But the prize is so infinitely rewarding and so badly needed that a little hurt surely should be acceptable on the way . |