Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] so [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Brougham believed of Liverpool that : ‘ No minister ever passed his time with so little ill-will directed against himself , or had so much forbearance shown him upon all occasions . ’ |
| 2 | It had taken him only a few moments to discover , from his wife 's tirade , that Hank 's book was not quite so innocent as he had imagined ; however , any book that made so much money was a good book , in his opinion , and he had defended Hank hotly . |
| 3 | They look super in the portfolio : far better than all those grotty 10 cm doubles that sold so many army surplus sleeping bags . |
| 4 | And once they had deluded themselves that the blacks were content , the whites were quite unable to recognise , let alone tackle , the real grievances that caused so many peasant farmers to side with the ‘ boys in the bush ’ . |
| 5 | The apathy of the people towards unemployment was one of the things that caused so little notice to be taken of it . |
| 6 | That was the authority that caused so much scandal as a result of the compulsory competitive tendering legislation with such iniquitous dealings in the management buy-outs of the school meals service that the Audit Commission had to issue special guidelines for all future cases . |
| 7 | The marked rural-urban difference in incidence , however , made the louse a symbol of the wider cultural differences between town and country that caused so much resentment on both sides . |
| 8 | Years after the excavation took place , it may come to the notice of schoolchildren studying history , but by this time , the site that required so much work to gain so much information is likely to be described in just one or two sentences . |
| 9 | Later , in the 1860s , Persigny remarked to the Emperor that the charges on the civil list were enormous — to which Napoleon III replied that had so much money not been allotted in the first place he would have been unable to fulfil all the demands which were made upon him . |
| 10 | I thought them extraordinary Performances for a Girl of her Age , and one that had so little Advantage ( or rather none at all ) either from Books or Conversation : But my bad State of Health prevented me from making any further Enquiry concerning this young Genius , till about fourteen Months before her Death , when I was first inform 'd she had wrote a Tragedy . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , planning permission has been sought and obtained so that work can go ahead as soon as funds permit . |
| 12 | ‘ Indeed , ’ my father said , and shovelled so much food into his mouth he would n't be able to speak for another minute or so . |
| 13 | Out services can be improved and extended so that care at home becomes a real option for more people . |
| 14 | ‘ Certainly not ! ’ she replied indignantly , but felt so good inside that there was no way she could stop her mouth from curving upwards . |
| 15 | The druggist , a bird-like little man in his fifties who longed to repeat his father 's reputation as town matchmaker , but had so little chance since the youngsters who had n't moved out permanently were commuting to bigger towns , was delighted to see two mature strangers getting together over coffee . |
| 16 | A shrug-that dismissed so much unhappiness and disappointment . |
| 17 | Charles remembered from working on The Strutters with him that George had always had an approximate approach to the text , relying , as did so many television actors , on a sort of paraphrase of the speeches which homed in on the right cue . |