Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] so [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were those who swore that Kitchen had so perfected his technique that midway through his sliding tackle he could swerve around obstacles , like team-mates , who got in the way . |
| 2 | All these four reasons are subject to varying degrees of criticism : Unskilled manual jobs may well be done just as well , if not better , by the less educated ; resistance to change in employment can be affected more by the alternative job opportunities that are available than by levels of education ; advanced industrialisation has so atomised and de-skilled the production process that for many workers further or higher education is not necessary in their jobs , etc. , etc . |
| 3 | The US company Du Pont acknowledged the same day that it had exported to Iraq a special lubricant used for nuclear weapons but stressed that permission to do so had been granted by the US government in 1989 . |
| 4 | The proliferation of this literature has so simplified going into our wilderness areas that readers are literally taken by the hand . |
| 5 | But in the ensuing duet for Balstrode and Grimes , this motif gets so entangled with Grimes 's personal strife and obstinate nature that by the time the " Storm " interlude itself begins ( with a variant of the fugue subject ) we may genuinely wonder whether the hurricane is not as much an inward as an outward affair . |
| 6 | Because my hon. Friend looks so disconsolate , I will give way to him after all . |
| 7 | Shiva had called it that , but in his mouth it had not been the hackneyed expression it would have been if an English person had so referred to it . |
| 8 | However he did say that in the years ending June 1983 and June 1984 the total number of High Court judges so involved was 28.4 As no details were given , this figure is almost meaningless but if the categories counted were similar to those for the period of 1953–73 those two later years show almost a doubling , on average . |
| 9 | Yet the opacity and lack of conviction of this paper has so disappointed directors that no vote will now take place . |
| 10 | Almost without exception , the visitors who turn up this road do so having heard or read of the ‘ parallel roads ’ , a remarkable geological antiquity found in other Scottish glens but nowhere as clearly defined as in Glen Roy . |
| 11 | Note that as the number of users specified at this keyword increases so does the USER DETAILS data transfer time and the response time of the USER DETAILS related views . |
| 12 | Note that as the number of users specified at this keyword increases so does the MODULE DETAILS data transfer time and the response time of the MODULE DETAILS related views . |
| 13 | Note that as the number of users specified at this keyword increases so does the DC DETAILS data transfer time and the response time of the DC DETAILS related views . |
| 14 | So I thought well I 'm in with a chance , you know , one 's wanted a and this leg repairing so compare it with that no |
| 15 | What he could not understand , he said , was how this idea got so muddled up with hostages and the necessity to sell arms . |
| 16 | Since one has reason to express such an attitude in this way doing so enables one to conform to reasons which apply to one , which is the condition laid down by the normal justification thesis . |
| 17 | But the question remains : why were those two Frenchwomen in the sixteenth century found so threatening ? |
| 18 | Third degree burns involve the full thickness of the skin and are likely to be less tender than first or second degree burns so do not be fooled into underestimating the severity of a serious burn by the lack of pain . |
| 19 | He implied , in other words , that the BFASS had been brought a long way since its restrictive outlook had so divided the 1840 World Convention . |
| 20 | The penal system wields power over its subjects , but its moral right to do so has been coming under strong attack . |
| 21 | This was Gloucester 's one and only win against Rugby at Kingsholm … but they 've won their last three club matches so lets hope they keep on rolling tomorrow |
| 22 | If you swear that her little one-off has so turned you against her that you could n't possibly bear to live with her any longer , you 'll get your divorce . |
| 23 | These forms of repetitive and obsessive behaviour become so ingrained in the horse , that they become part of the horse 's ordinary behaviour even when it is not bored . |
| 24 | The decree of 1274 henceforth banned the holding of two or more cures of souls simultaneously except where a papal licence to do so had been obtained . |
| 25 | Those were the broken spears and spinning , shattered wheels of chariots whose mournful death had so affected her as she had tried to protect Scathach from the Scald-crows . |
| 26 | He 's at us all the time , but boys of that age do so like to be morally superior , do n't they ? ’ |
| 27 | They have short attention spans so do n't expect them to sit for hours on end without fidgeting , yawning or falling asleep . |
| 28 | During the third century synodical government became so developed that synods used to meet not merely at times of crisis but on a regular basis every year , normally between Easter and Pentecost . |
| 29 | An executive involved in a role-play exercise in order to improve his management skills might be so determined to learn that his very effort to do so precludes the necessary ‘ submission ’ to the experience . |
| 30 | That outline held so entrancing a meaning that I was further disarmed . |