Example sentences of "[conj] so [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Temperatures will fall to around minus two or three celsius , that 's twenty seven fahrenheit , but a degree or so higher along the coast . |
| 2 | She had never seen anything so accomplished as the movements he made , or so perfect as the oval of his lips as he exhaled . |
| 3 | Out in force a week or so prior to the start of the meeting , they hunted for stories like lions seeking water on a drought-ridden veldt , lingering outside the security fences and eyeing the carabinieri , who would let none through without the appropriate pass . |
| 4 | Put the new shoot in the jar , close beside the old one , and after a day or so most of the aphids will have left the old shoot . |
| 5 | A mile or so inshore of the Roach there was a road coming up from the south , the road for Great Wakering and Southend that served Foulness . |
| 6 | For the first year or so some of the people , particularly in the big independent television ( ITV ) companies , were incredibly scornful of both Liz Forgan and myself . |
| 7 | Nowadays in Kenya nobody is quite so happy or so optimistic about the NPA , for though it survives in urban schools its extension proved to be full of problems . |
| 8 | Behind him a dozen or so more of the cars were lined up , their paintwork gleaming . |
| 9 | As a mother I warm to someone who observes that so many of the modern theories on childcare ‘ show utter contempt for women 's judgement ’ , and who points out that , when it comes to smacking , ‘ if we were talking about any other activity which was so widespread , people would say this was a method which was tried and tested and obviously worked . |
| 10 | ‘ The Catholic Church … was unique among the larger religious bodies by the fact that so many of the most devout were drawn from the working-class and even from the poor . ’ |
| 11 | AN OXFORDSHIRE reader expresses astonishment that so many of the hotels featured in this column border on Fawlty Towers . |
| 12 | City teachers , even the most experienced , are so accustomed to mobility , access to transport and social competence in getting around that they are continually surprised to find that so many of the children they teach lead lives confined to a few streets . |
| 13 | The fact that so many of the balances are associated with graves-goods dating from c . |
| 14 | It 's sad that so many of the people I 'm interested in are no longer around . |
| 15 | It is no wonder that so many of the small northern birds have to raise large broods of young , just to maintain the status quo of the population . |
| 16 | It is no accident that so many of the latter — Wieland , Winckelmann , Lessing , Gottsched — disliked both him and Prussia . |
| 17 | Dame Sirith does not end with a brief moral in the way that so many of the French fabliaux do . |
| 18 | Firstly , I am tired of hearing from experts that so many of the world 's problems are insoluble : poverty , malnutrition , pollution , road accidents , bureaucracy , illiteracy , inflation … there are literally hundreds of such problems , and most of them are getting worse . |
| 19 | It occurred to me that so many of the people who influence our lives are people who have been unjustly treated . |
| 20 | What clearly frustrates him is that so much of the money now sloshing around in professional tennis , is being spent in damaging — or at least potentially damaging ways — rather than for the good of the game , as well as for the good of the individuals who are benefitting . |
| 21 | The reason for this is that so much of the guesswork can be removed , certain weather conditions demand certain tactics . |
| 22 | It is for this reason that so much of the initial consultation is spent explaining the technique to the patient , answering all his questions and , hopefully , dissolving all his apprehensions . |
| 23 | In the knowledge that so much of the central and parochial planning has been based on these kinds of projections , many ministers want to ignore the evidence from the past and present , and work in the hope that God will do a new thing . |
| 24 | However you do the sums , the levy is clearly there to pay for history ; the Select Committee said it is ‘ indefensible that so much of the burden of discharging the pre-April 1990 liabilities should be placed on electricity consumers within one eight-year period ’ . |
| 25 | JC : I regret that so much of the spoken word is now cut . |
| 26 | Yet an analysis of the ideology behind the antipathy and prejudice displayed in racial nationalism , despite the fact that so little of the expression of such ideas was coherent or systematic , is important for three reasons . |
| 27 | It is symptomatic of the depressed state of industry that so few of the individuals interviewed had anything positive to say about their experiences . |
| 28 | Miss Logan observed several butterflies and numerous lizards , but was secretly disappointed that so few of the creatures which had descended from the Ark were manifesting themselves . |
| 29 | The fact that so few of the Crown 's powers were redefined in 1688 – 9 meant that neither the old conflicts between Court and Country , nor those between advocates of limited versus strong , autocratic monarchy , had reached any satisfactory resolution . |
| 30 | If , as usually should be the case , the courts of [ England ] decide to return the child to the jurisdiction of the courts of [ Australia ] , the latter courts will be in no way inhibited from giving permission for the child to return to [ England ] or indeed becoming settled there and so subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of that country . |