Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] so [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this is the penalty all pioneers must suffer , for we all operate within the narrow confines of the knowledge and attitudes of our day , and before condemning us entirely , it is to be hoped that future students will appreciate that their own work would be that much more difficult , but for the solid foundations so meticulously laid down by John Pearson Gillam . |
| 2 | Heavily patterned carpeting may seem a good idea , concealing ground in crumbs and cigarette burns until the cleaners get to work , but there are alternatives to the garish patterns so often selected for public areas . |
| 3 | In relations between the German states , in which legalistic considerations so often bulked large , Latin held its ground longer than in Europe generally . |
| 4 | The electricity between them was becoming unbearable , their light-hearted words so obviously hiding something deeper . |
| 5 | The bulk of the Goldeneye wintering in Sussex do so in Chichester Harbour , where recent counts have shown a fairly consistent winter peak of about 100 birds ; on 16 January 1971 225 were counted , and on 1 January 1974 , 234 , the largest concentrations so far recorded . |
| 6 | Its over 2 legs so even allowing for a ‘ lukic ’ of a game , we should get thru , and maybe if the season has nt got going by then it will give us the start . |
| 7 | By this time , with the top tom-cats so sexually exhausted , even some of the masculine runts may risk a quick mating . |
| 8 | The foregoing reminds the reader of the salient ideas so far written to introduce the idea of the Created God . |
| 9 | It helps that Preston relies on the musical conviction of his playing and his impeccable technique to get his message across ; thankfully we are spared any of the acts of registrative trickery , especially in the C major Toccata , which lesser organists so often impose on the music in a feeble attempt to inject artificial stimulants into their performances . |
| 10 | Anne had continued to visit the Misses Dolan frequently even after Margaret had moved in to look after them , and been very happy to see her old friends so well cared for and so delighted with Margaret 's lively little girl . |
| 11 | All men refuse to take responsibility for their actions at some time or other during their lives , and some men so consistently shirk their duty that they present more the appearance of overgrown children than of adults . |
| 12 | Why , then , are some historians so busily proliferating new historically specific ‘ data types ’ by implementing them in proprietary software while the computer-literate researchers in disciplines are giving generic definition to their eccentric datum so they may be implemented on any platform which permits user-defined objects ? |
| 13 | The design , roof beams , decorated columns , and funerary angels so much resembled a chapel that , after the station was closed , it was demolished in 1958 and removed to Canberra to be re-erected as a church . |
| 14 | It must be described not with the fierce barely pronounceable scientific tags so far used but with a simple name that describes both its function and general make-up with sufficient clarity to distinguish it from anything else . |
| 15 | ( One of the few politicians so far to have mentioned raising taxes in an election campaign and still have won is Bill Clinton . ) |
| 16 | These are the largest movements so far noted and in some years fewer than 100 birds have been involved . |
| 17 | Such contracts so far account for around 15% of most institutes ' funds . |
| 18 | The simple models so far considered ( which illustrate rather than justify the linear differential Equation ( 3.1 ) ) approximate to the behaviour of real materials but do not describe it exactly . |
| 19 | Instead , the work should consider what has culturally negotiated this experience for the artist and for other women whose personal experiences so closely echo her own . |
| 20 | Quasars have red shifts ranging up to 4.5 , making them the most distant distinct sources so far detected . |
| 21 | Commonwealth countries take the view that it is the limited sanctions so far applied which have done much to bring about the new climate represented by the de Klerk administration , and believe a turn of the screw would effect more change . |
| 22 | One of today 's most distinguished ( though not yet knighted ) evolutionary theorists so seldom cleans his glasses that his vision is probably a misty blur anyway , but he seems to get along pretty well and , by his own account , he used to play a mean game of monocular squash . |
| 23 | This was the actuality of the pretty designs so liberally provided by the cottage enthusiasts of the time . |
| 24 | The Zuccarelli recordings so far demonstrated could well have been made with a simple dummy head , incorporating reflectors or circuits to emphasise this effect . |
| 25 | Three of the most successful organic concerns so far have been Welsh Organic Foods in Lampeter , West Wales Organic Growers and Brynllys Farm in Aberystwyth . |
| 26 | I fancy some of the sailors , having relatives gardeners , seeing these plants so carefully boxed up , took them for rarities ; so were tempted to steal them and give them to their friends . ’ |
| 27 | Claire is one of three patients so far to undergo the procedure under the supervision of consultant orthopaedic surgeon Richard Montgomery . |
| 28 | She is one of three patients so far to undergo the procedure at the hospital , under the supervision of consultant orthopaedic surgeon , Mr Richard Montgomery . |
| 29 | Why do we continue to talk about marriage as if it were a commonly understood state when these differences so obviously exist ? |
| 30 | This is the earliest formulation of quarantine regulations and preventive medicine relating to these diseases so far recovered from the ancient Near East . |