Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun sg] [vb -s] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the European Commission has so far shown no signs of stopping or even slowing down the HDMAC development programme . |
| 2 | Moscovitch therefore suggested that the reason why the right hemisphere shows so little language ability under normal circumstances is that it suffers from inhibitory control by the left hemisphere . |
| 3 | This fiction has various names : ‘ private eye fiction ’ , ‘ hardboiled fiction ’ which is a way of describing its style , and erm I have been interested in this for some time , partly trying to assess the reasons why such fiction occurred in America as a complete breakaway from the old kind of detective fiction which we all know about , the country house murder , why erm the figure of the private detective becomes so important in this kind of fiction between the wars , and what the relationship of this sort of fiction is to not merely other kinds of American fiction during that period but to more abiding American themes , particularly erm themes of individualism and toughness . |
| 4 | Large pieces of timber take some considerable time to come to equilibrium with the surrounding humidity and , because the English weather changes so often , there was generally no time to build up dangerous differences in swelling strains so that we had comparatively little trouble from this cause , so long as the aircraft were in this country . |
| 5 | The sub-atomic world becomes so strange and ‘ unscientific ’ that the some physicists like Fritjof Capra have been moved to consider the weird world of quarks and leptons in semi-mystical terms that combine the new physics with a holistic view of life in general . |
| 6 | Midori Suzuki , spokesperson for FCT , reported that the Japanese public has so far been denied access to cable TV ( CATV ) , but she outlined some possibilities for access in the future . |
| 7 | We assume that the orbital plane has so that the metric eqn ( 4.10 ) becomes where , M is the Sun 's mass , and r is the distance of Mercury from the Sun . |
| 8 | We use all of the native widget sets so we 're not using the lowest common denominator approach . |
| 9 | The Left Coalition has so far ruled out linking up with the conservatives again — the improbable alliance of last June has been blamed for much of their drop in support — but has already hinted that it would be willing to support a national unity government as proposed by the New Democrat leader Mr Constantine Mitsotakis . |
| 10 | Recent research ( by Don Walz in the U.S.A. ) shows that the black pigmentation uses so much protein that there may be insufficient left over for normal growth and health . |
| 11 | The present system operates so that those employees earning less than £43 a week ( i.e. the lower earnings limit ) make no contribution at all . |
| 12 | ‘ Just like the old days , sir , ’ said Bill , as he staggered out on to the pavement with the long-disused queue signs so long , in fact , that he had had to alter the prices . |
| 13 | This breaking-down of the time barrier could be extremely exciting ; at the same time , the very idea introduces so many paradoxes ( if you communicate with the past you change it ; you therefore change the present ; therefore , in this new present , you never communicated with the past ) that we must think it unlikely that people will ever be able to use tachyons in this way … unless communications were flitting between alternate universes , the existence of which would imply the simultaneous reality of all possibilities . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , the rewritten version conforms so closely to the original , with just isolated words changed , that it can not reasonably be called a paraphrase . |
| 15 | With old people , the physical condition has so much bearing on the mental state . |
| 16 | It 's a horrible experience because the the through traffic goes so fast erm , so anybody who actually does n't know quite what you have to do . |
| 17 | In the above , some attempt has been made to produce well-sounding harmony , but the whole-tone system has so little conflict within itself that almost any combination of notes can sound tolerable . |
| 18 | But the migratory instinct and the geographical pattern seems so deeply etched into their inward mental fabric that their pre-programmed habit rules the day . |
| 19 | It is doubtful that the 1703 visitors were looking at ‘ pickle ’ since the anthropoid shell fits so tightly that no additional liquid could have been introduced . |
| 20 | the big knuckle has so much locked inside |
| 21 | Of the 24,170 posts in England , the northern region has so far received about 2,500 , including 855 with the Inland Revenue in Sunderland , Middlesbrough and Washington and 1,205 posts in a number of departments in Newcastle . |
| 22 | At some time on his watch , say 11:00 , the star would shrink below the critical radius at which the gravitational field becomes so strong nothing can escape , and his signals would no longer reach the spaceship . |
| 23 | However , what the singularity theorems really indicate is that the gravitational field becomes so strong that quantum gravitational effects become important : classical theory is no longer a good description of the universe . |
| 24 | As far as the Shiite ulama were concerned any Shah ruling before the return of the hidden Imam does so unlawfully , unless he has ben licensed by the chief priests , the ayatollahs . |
| 25 | Sometimes the main reservoir runs so low that there 's not enough water for full power generation to take place . |
| 26 | The main acquisition charges so deferred are direct advertising expenditure and costs associated with the telesales and underwriting staff . |
| 27 | In ordinary flowing speech , the whole sentence happens so quickly that , even if you held the speaker firmly by the throat , it would not be easy to spot vibration of quickly passing consonant sounds . |
| 28 | The tragedy of the whole affair becomes so pathetic as we realise that Coleen does love him and only a delay of post cost him his life . |
| 29 | Trainer Simon Sherwood , Desert Orchid 's Gold Cup winning jockey , said : ‘ The whole thing involves so much hypocrisy it 's a farce . |
| 30 | It 's no good just using simple words to describe each step in that argument , if the whole argument gets so convoluted by the time you finish the listener thought , ‘ Well , I understood the bits , but I did n't understand the whole . ’ |