Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] so [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We try to make each day that bit different but you can stick up only so many cards or buy so many duvet covers . |
| 2 | Gray ( 1982 ) states that the ‘ good news ’ about old age is that most enjoy a healthy life , untroubled by incontinence , dementia and other disorders that receive so much publicity . |
| 3 | It is those individuals with a conviction that their way is best and the others had better learn it fast that cause so much distress and wasted time when groups of people from different cultural backgrounds meet . |
| 4 | Labour must lead the challenge against the vested interests that control so much power and privilege . |
| 5 | Here one way , in a generation , to conquer flaws that have so impoverished education . |
| 6 | Margaret Thatcher , for example , would remember her lessons in the grocery shop at her father 's knee and conclude that developing countries were foolish and irresponsible to live beyond their means and borrow so much money . |
| 7 | The modern movement for the legislative recognition of ‘ human rights ’ is in fact a movement for the increased control of legislatures by the judiciary , because the human rights that are claimed are couched in such broad terms , and involve so much balancing of one consideration with another , that they inevitably call for much judicial ‘ interpretation . ’ |
| 8 | Since he started them and put so much effort and endless work in to running them , these events have raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for charity . |
| 9 | ‘ They look good and take so little making-up time [ which ] therefore gives us a price advantage on the market . ’ |
| 10 | You just weigh up and take so much information in through your eyes do n't you , perhaps this person 's in a panic or they look angry , yeah , this sort of stuff , do it very , very naturally . |
| 11 | Why cause ourselves so much anxiety , and spend so much time , money and energy on failed diet/exercise routines when the answer to all our problems is staring us right in the face . |
| 12 | I wanner be me if you wanner know an' woss so wrong wiv vat . |