Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] so [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are plenty of good reasons why nationalism thirsts for identification with ethnicity , if only because it provides the historical pedigree ‘ the nation ’ in the great majority of cases so obviously lacks . |
| 2 | Even a Board of Guardians so unusually influenced by Labour as that of Poplar was reluctant to pay out-door relief to the unemployed . |
| 3 | We know that niello is a metal sulphide , made by heating metal filings with sulphur , but could there be a continuity of tradition amongst the metalworkers of cultures so widely separated by time and geography ? |
| 4 | Colleagues , I know that people are starting to move out , and I 'm sure that it 's got nothing to do with Mick 's appearance at the rostrum , but colleagues seriously , seriously for the last couple of days we 've had a great deal of disciplines so please try and be as quiet as possible . |
| 5 | It was a splendid opportunity for Douglas Hurd to recall those long-lost Victorian values which the Thatcherite brand of Conservatives so ardently wished to revive . |
| 6 | Is it necessary to have an extra ladder of offences so closely linked with the general ladder of offences of violence ? |
| 7 | Adam Smith presented them as an example of a small group of workers so strategically placed in the chain of production that they could command high wages . |
| 8 | There is no precise meaning to ‘ double ’ with regard to petal number , and the word is taken to mean a number of petals so closely packed that until the bloom fully opens and then ‘ blows ’ , it is virtually impossible to see the anthers and other sexual parts of the flower — they are quite hidden . |
| 9 | The great merit of the UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali 's Agenda for Peace report to the Security Council summit last year is its tough-minded and realistic assessment of the kind of reforms so urgently required . |
| 10 | Packages of that rare onion-skin typing paper which made my erasures of mistypings so easy came from your mother , who also sent you boxes of drugs , chiefly Dexedrine , those shocking-pink amphetamines which , I later discovered , are bad for the heart . |
| 11 | In serving the interest of some rather than all , the 1988 Education Reform Act may come to be judged as an impediment to the creation of that equality of outcomes so long seen as an essential right of all citizens . |
| 12 | The CEO must cope not only with a huge array of often amorphous and constantly changing data but also with variables so tightly interwoven that they must be disentangled before they will yield useful information . |
| 13 | It was the biggest exercise of its kind mounted by Courtaulds , with questionnaires so far going to 15,000 employees across the whole range of operations in the UK , continental Europe , United States , Latin America , the Far East and Australasia . |
| 14 | But oh , the glory and the convenience of skiing in resorts where you step into your bindings and ski down to the lift without setting foot to snow , where you cruise all day on networks so meticulously designed that you have but to descend to find another fan of lifts at your disposal . |
| 15 | She was not used to laws so easily broken , authority so easily evaded . |
| 16 | Trespass by beasts so often takes the form of ‘ cattle trespass ’ ( with which we deal separately ) that one does not meet with many ordinary actions for trespass in the reports . |