Example sentences of "[conj] so [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain ended the war with 475,000 houses either destroyed , or so badly damaged that they were made permanently uninhabitable . |
| 2 | ‘ Put into the language of today , the general principle being there stated is simply that , unless the contrary is expressly enacted or so plainly implied that the courts must give effect to it , United Kingdom legislation is applicable only to British subjects or to foreigners who by coming to the United Kingdom , whether for a short or a long time , have made themselves subject to British jurisdiction . |
| 3 | ‘ It appears to me that the whole question is governed by the broad , general , universal principle that English legislation , unless the contrary is expressly enacted or so plainly implied as to make it the duty of an English court to give effect to an English statute , is applicable only to English subjects or to foreigners who by coming into this country , whether for a long or a short time , have made themselves during that time subject to English jurisdiction . |
| 4 | At these heights , the first turn or so generally dictates whether you go up and get a climb , or go down for a landing . |
| 5 | Something which could interest her without being thought so eccentric or so socially damaging that it would upset her mother . |
| 6 | The ‘ implications ’ of literacy are not so obvious nor so easily elicited or described as Goody suggests . |
| 7 | Despite the all the cutbacks that so clearly indicate that IBM Corp now acknowledges that the mainframe can not remain a dominant part of its business for much longer , the company does have new models up its sleeve for early next year — February is thought likely , our US associate Technology News of America hears . |
| 8 | He really scents the difficulty but thinks it too hard for discussion and so conveniently pretends that he has not seen it . |
| 9 | Most babies distinguish reliably between their parents and others during the first six months of life , and so already know that human beings vary . |
| 10 | In the Mediterranean coral was so abundant and so easily harvested that it never became valuable , at least in the home territory . |
| 11 | Yet a surprisingly large proportion of market research is still based on the spending patterns of the baby boomers ' parents , and so implicitly assumes that they are all but identical . |
| 12 | What evidence is there to show that the system of law and democracy in the European Community is so well established and so widely accepted that it should supersede the means by which we have governed ourselves peacefully through several centuries of war and revolution on the Continent ? |
| 13 | This was ginger brown in colour and so badly fitting that only a blind man would not realise that it was a hairpiece . |
| 14 | But the prize is so infinitely rewarding and so badly needed that a little hurt surely should be acceptable on the way . |
| 15 | He was sitting facing the Assistant Commissioner ( Crime ) , across a desk so neat and orderly and so well polished that you knew no serious work could be done at it . |
| 16 | Speech processing is so complex and so little understood that we want as few assumptions built into the development architecture as possible . |
| 17 | He also believes that a Martian might be able to understand symbols ( and so apparently assumes that the Martian is not going to be at all like any future ( IBM computer ) . |
| 18 | Attempted cores turn out to be highly simplistic generalisations that satisfy very few people , but carry many dogmatic messages which are in fact controversial and so therefore masquerade as being objective . |
| 19 | We at first wanted to know each other , then knowing became friends , and every day as our knowledge increased , greater liking , deeper sympathy , and so on to love and feeling our love , knowing it to be true , pure , and everlasting ; then the desire for the perfect life of unity , and then of giving the world the benefit of our love by a little child . |
| 20 | His nostrils were cavernous and so finely edged that they seemed made of paper . |
| 21 | The back is a delicate instrument , and so finely tuned that nearly everyone of us at some time has experienced some sort of back problem . |
| 22 | Chomsky has claimed that the principles underlying the structure of language are so specific and so highly articulated that they must be regarded as being biologically determined ; that is , as constituting part of what we call " human nature " and as being genetically transmitted from parents to children . |
| 23 | If conventionalism were so single-mindedly practised in a particular jurisdiction and so often announced and confirmed by public institutions that people were thereby entitled to rely on that style of adjudication , of course it would be unfair for some judge suddenly to abandon it . |
| 24 | The story of biblical criticism has been so well documented and so often told that I will not recount it . |
| 25 | Despite the masterpieces they contain , Italy 's museums are so uninviting and so often closed that they have very few visitors : only the Uffizi is over the one million mark ( 1,048,185 ) , with the Accademia in Venice at a mere 183,474 ( compared with the London National Gallery 's four million visitors ) . |
| 26 | Until then the English had been sailing to places so far from effective Spanish opposition and so thinly populated that the government had not had to provide any help . |
| 27 | The Prussian government passed legislation designed to Germanise landholdings in the border districts , but these laws were so badly framed and so crudely implemented that they had exactly the reverse effect from that intended . |
| 28 | The poster at the end of the tunnel was so large and so perfectly lit that it seemed to O , looking up at it suddenly , that the tunnel did not end in a wall , in fact did not end at all , but led to the green fields of France . |
| 29 | Silken and smooth and so deeply loving that the pain was there again … |
| 30 | Then he stood awkwardly beside the box , feeling utterly miserable , not knowing what to do next and so deeply humiliated that his face began to twitch . |