Example sentences of "[be] the [adj] so [adv] " in BNC.

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1 The Oxford scheme will be the largest so far .
2 The 200-mile event is the largest so far organised by UK Women 's Cycle Racing Association .
3 Thus , the Aberdeen report in his book , however he anticipated his Hebridean travels , is the largest so far , with St Andrews a close second : his longest passages are naturally reserved for Skye and the islands .
4 Cut and blow dry £6.50 , perms from £10.50 , which , we think , is the cheapest so far .
5 This year 's five-day fair is the biggest so far , with 8,189 exhibitors from 93 countries ; the organisers expect 220,000 visitors .
6 This is the Mediterranean so why am I squeezed into this number ?
7 If we are referring to a mass of matter we can say that it is the same so long as it consists of the same particles , whereas if we are referring to a living body this need not be so : ‘ a colt grown up to a horse , sometimes fat , sometimes lean , is all the while the same horse : though … there may be a manifest change of the parts . ’
8 The most remarkable feature of Bristol 's urban animal life is its population of foxes which , with nearly two family groups per square kilometre is the densest so far recorded anywhere in the world .
9 The preliminary bombardment was the heaviest so far mounted : over two weeks 3,100 guns fired some 471/2 million shells .
10 But there 's been better economic news today on Britain 's trade ; the trade gap in August was the smallest so far this year , just one thousand , one hundred and thirty million pounds in the red , nearly six hundred million better than last month .
11 Several other independent groups have sought and obtained compensation payments , but this was the largest so far .
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