Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] so [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For my part I am unable to derive from that case so far reaching a proposition . |
| 2 | In particular , it has a lower jaw so loosely connected with the upper that it can be pushed forward like a long narrow spoon . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , among the lots sold , the top price , but still only at mid-estimate , was reached by an early Salvador Dalí of 1921 , called ‘ Cadaqués ’ , and depicting the fishing village on the Costa Brava that Dalí so often visited . |
| 4 | The first cry is associated with ‘ The change of Philomel , by the barbarous king/ So rudely forced ’ . |
| 5 | I 'm not used to coming from this direction so just remind me where the turning is . |
| 6 | Why did British fiction so suddenly revive the conte philosophique in the years around the war 's ending , along with its fierce , diagrammatic crudities of tone and substance ? |
| 7 | Little more , even today , than the architecture of old Schiaparelli so eloquently declares . |
| 8 | Pronouncing Congress to be ‘ a microscopic minority ’ , he began to give thought to ways of preventing this minority from poisoning the minds of the majority , especially those of the vast array of native collaborators — the patwaris and the chowkidars , the stationmasters and the clerks — on which British rule so visibly depended ; and before long attendance by government employees at meetings of Congress or any other political organization was made illegal . |
| 9 | Indeed , of the books of the Old Testament so far found to have been in use among the Qumran sect , with the exception of Isaiah and the Psalms , most are copies of Deuteronomy . |
| 10 | Most of this research so far has been done by private companies ( mostly American ) . |
| 11 | The discussion in this chapter so far has addressed cost reduction in general without trying to distinguish between the ability to become more efficient through productivity increases and the ability to improve the relationship between input and output prices . |
| 12 | Corbett became tired of her constant witticisms and sly innuendoes so she transferred her attention to Ranulf , who was overjoyed to see the tedium of staying in a manor on the Scottish coast so pleasantly broken . |
| 13 | This may well be a pleasurable and interesting occupation but it will not in any way further the quest for the universal philosophy so urgently needed , unless those students and specialist authorities use the opportunities afforded them to serve humanity more widely and wisely than by merely producing yet more literature for yet more students . |
| 14 | This can not have been untypical — the late medieval Weald was far from being the empty desert so often described . |
| 15 | The Gothic side of Wordsworth is usually played down , and he is thought of as reacting against the overstimulation of the imagination which medieval fantasy so frequently provided . |
| 16 | Gas has also been tested from numerous wells in the southern North Sea but the only commercial discovery so far to have been made is the Scram field . |
| 17 | We estimate the cost of this campaign so far has been in excess of £20,000 . |
| 18 | This record so far has been dictated in one long burst . |
| 19 | The most striking Iraqi achievement so far has been the saving of its air force , a feat that owes more to engineering than combat . |
| 20 | It is probably pointless to suggest that Mr Brittlebank now seek ( not seeks ) the guidance on English usage so clearly denied him hitherto , but I hope he will think twice before presuming upon your columns on this particular subject in future . |
| 21 | Probably not since the French Revolution had a foreign event so bitterly divided the British people , and this at a time when national unity was essential for our survival . |
| 22 | I can not think of a more patsy , unquestioning system better designed to produce the cosy relationship about which the hon. Gentleman so frequently speaks . |
| 23 | Did this mean that the historical sequence so far set up had to be modified to accommodate much more variety , and was the specifically European focus of the scheme in some way too parochial ? |
| 24 | Both Soviet and American leaders , by the late 1980s , had a common interest in a negotiated end to the Iran-Iraq war and in an international agreement guaranteeing freedom of movement in the Persian Gulf , but neither could necessarily manipulate events in the region to its advantage and neither , perhaps , quite understood the nature of a popular movement so far removed from its own cultural assumptions . |
| 25 | There are many fisheries throughout the Indian sub-continent and the Sri Lankan operation is the only one in this area so far to have been carefully studied . |
| 26 | Why is the fairer sex so unfairly represented in the top echelons ? |
| 27 | The research on this subject so far gives a mixed answer ( Campbell 1985 , Baum and Cope 1980 , Kiernan 1989a ) . |
| 28 | Dean Rusk and others in Washington were not happy to find the British ambassador so often closeted with the president . |
| 29 | The role of Highlander in this project so far had not just been as a catalyst , nor a co-ordinating agency for the network — though this in itself is a vital role — but also as a meeting place for the widely scattered groups which came to the Center to hold regular training workshops . |
| 30 | The bulk of this book so far has been concerned with looking at what happens when people lose something . |