Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] so [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this is the penalty all pioneers must suffer , for we all operate within the narrow confines of the knowledge and attitudes of our day , and before condemning us entirely , it is to be hoped that future students will appreciate that their own work would be that much more difficult , but for the solid foundations so meticulously laid down by John Pearson Gillam . |
| 2 | Heavily patterned carpeting may seem a good idea , concealing ground in crumbs and cigarette burns until the cleaners get to work , but there are alternatives to the garish patterns so often selected for public areas . |
| 3 | In relations between the German states , in which legalistic considerations so often bulked large , Latin held its ground longer than in Europe generally . |
| 4 | The electricity between them was becoming unbearable , their light-hearted words so obviously hiding something deeper . |
| 5 | By this time , with the top tom-cats so sexually exhausted , even some of the masculine runts may risk a quick mating . |
| 6 | The foregoing reminds the reader of the salient ideas so far written to introduce the idea of the Created God . |
| 7 | It helps that Preston relies on the musical conviction of his playing and his impeccable technique to get his message across ; thankfully we are spared any of the acts of registrative trickery , especially in the C major Toccata , which lesser organists so often impose on the music in a feeble attempt to inject artificial stimulants into their performances . |
| 8 | Anne had continued to visit the Misses Dolan frequently even after Margaret had moved in to look after them , and been very happy to see her old friends so well cared for and so delighted with Margaret 's lively little girl . |
| 9 | The design , roof beams , decorated columns , and funerary angels so much resembled a chapel that , after the station was closed , it was demolished in 1958 and removed to Canberra to be re-erected as a church . |
| 10 | It must be described not with the fierce barely pronounceable scientific tags so far used but with a simple name that describes both its function and general make-up with sufficient clarity to distinguish it from anything else . |
| 11 | The simple models so far considered ( which illustrate rather than justify the linear differential Equation ( 3.1 ) ) approximate to the behaviour of real materials but do not describe it exactly . |
| 12 | Instead , the work should consider what has culturally negotiated this experience for the artist and for other women whose personal experiences so closely echo her own . |
| 13 | Quasars have red shifts ranging up to 4.5 , making them the most distant distinct sources so far detected . |
| 14 | Commonwealth countries take the view that it is the limited sanctions so far applied which have done much to bring about the new climate represented by the de Klerk administration , and believe a turn of the screw would effect more change . |
| 15 | One of today 's most distinguished ( though not yet knighted ) evolutionary theorists so seldom cleans his glasses that his vision is probably a misty blur anyway , but he seems to get along pretty well and , by his own account , he used to play a mean game of monocular squash . |
| 16 | This was the actuality of the pretty designs so liberally provided by the cottage enthusiasts of the time . |
| 17 | The Zuccarelli recordings so far demonstrated could well have been made with a simple dummy head , incorporating reflectors or circuits to emphasise this effect . |
| 18 | Three of the most successful organic concerns so far have been Welsh Organic Foods in Lampeter , West Wales Organic Growers and Brynllys Farm in Aberystwyth . |
| 19 | Did anything really ever turn out the way human beings so carefully planned . |
| 20 | The Bosnian Muslims so far have not come to the UN and instead pleaded their case with US officials . |
| 21 | WHY are so many leading Tories so badly dressed ? |
| 22 | To go along and like ideas so totally opposed to my own ? ’ |
| 23 | Like covering plants with layer after layer of old earth ; it 's no wonder the poor things so rarely come up fresh and green . |
| 24 | Both explored the breakup of wartime solidarity , the liberation of former restraints on individual selfishness and the irruption of dark , subversive and irrational forces to tear down the cosy myths so assiduously cultivated during wartime . |
| 25 | Little wonder that today 's black moggies so frequently sprout a small patch of white hairs as a badge of protection from earlier human follies . |
| 26 | Louis 's use of baptismal ritual to suggest his own imperial status vis-à-vis Harald was modelled on Byzantine practice , and Louis was seeking , as his eastern counterparts so often did , to promote imperial interests through intervention in the dynastic conflicts of a barbarian people . |
| 27 | But also the moral economy low rates so presumably means less of the sort of loyal |
| 28 | And he condemned destructive , point-saving tactics , the very tactics so mistakenly attributed to his former manager . |
| 29 | Bulbs of the future which are on show include daffodils of the ‘ split corona ’ or ‘ butterfly ’ type with double cups so heavily ruffled as to obscure their identity . |
| 30 | Between them they expressed the opposing feelings so often displayed by young children in the peak age of attachment : on the one hand , the protest and fury about being left — cries of rage — and then a sullen refusal to acknowledge and come to the mother ; on the other hand , the desperate yearning for the loved one and a need to cling and not let go . |