Example sentences of "[adv] so [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was grateful to him because I was really shaking with fear , so much so that poor Dawn could hardly sit up straight on my hand . |
| 2 | What should have been a triumphant closing ceremony turned into an embarrassing muddle , so much so that Polish television switched to a football match . |
| 3 | The set of curtains were rotated 90° daily so that directional polarization was under experimental control . |
| 4 | In the main , however , the selection procedure is rigorous enough so that basic training does not have to be used for assessment purposes . |
| 5 | Though television was pro-government and pro-Conservative it was much less so than other elements of the mass media . |
| 6 | It is potentially hugely divisive given the Scottish party 's left-wing sensibilities , but less so if working-class traditionalists like Clarke can go down Smith 's route to modernity . |
| 7 | The rule is that the two plugs fit together so that black wires are in the middle — if you are in any doubt then seek assistance or use a voltmeter to check the power supply . |
| 8 | As was seen in the previous section , the legal ingredients of the offence were successively whittled away so that public alarm became of relative insignificance , although the offence was apt to be charged in cases of group disorder . |
| 9 | Clare served supper early so that four-year-old Josh could stay up late and eat with them . |
| 10 | On the whole , however , CD-ROMs are now as physically integrated with computers as any other peripheral ; indeed , more so since new generation microcomputers are increasingly being designed with built-in CD players alongside the conventional magnetic floppy and hard disc drives . |
| 11 | The management of innovation efforts , particularly in terminating activities that do not make business sense , can be delicate as well as time-consuming — the more so since administrative fiat is not an acceptable solution . |
| 12 | There would appear to be a considerable number of strange events concerning signal boxes and their environs more so than other areas of unexplained activities . |
| 13 | These markets had been greatly depressed throughout much of the 1770s , and Chalford , perhaps more so than other clothing areas , suffered badly . |
| 14 | ‘ The key thing in book selling , even more so than other forms of retailing , is attracting people into the shop , ’ continues Mr Maher . |
| 15 | The key thing in book selling , even more so than other forms of retailing , is attracting people into the shop |
| 16 | It 's a bit longwinded , but no more so than Complete Works and it works well . |
| 17 | But none more so than eccentric RAF Flight Lieutenant Rob Bridges . |
| 18 | There is ample evidence that those ties remain strong even as the character of networks changes in other ways and thus these basic family links continue to be the first line of defence , the more so because other forms of association may weaken . |
| 19 | This is all the more so because other provisions in the Act , as they have been interpreted in the courts , amount to what is effectively an indirect attack on the ‘ right to silence . |
| 20 | For their part , trade unions mostly ignored community-based groups as irrelevant , self-appointed and ephemeral ; they seemed unaware that they were becoming increasingly remote from the people who belonged to them , especially to women ( as members , and even more so as unwaged workers ) . |
| 21 | The servants themselves were increasingly and overwhelmingly women — between 1841 and 1881 the percentage of men in domestic offices and personal services in Britain fell from about 20 to about 12 — so that the ideal bourgeois household consisted of a male lord dominating a number of hierarchically graded females , all the more so as male children tended to leave the home as they grew up , or even — among the British upper classes — as soon as they reached the age of boarding school . |
| 22 | The storage of cleaning products is every bit as demanding as the storage of food and in some cases more so as considerable danger can arise if conditions are not satisfactory . |
| 23 | It was brought by the customers when required for use rather than all at once so that large-scale storage was not needed at the mills . |
| 24 | The edible crab , Cancer pagurus , is undoubtedly stronger and well able to cope with larger Nucella , but the adults live offshore so that intertidal dog-whelks have only to contend with juveniles . |
| 25 | Pack items like shoes and coat hangers carefully so that sharp heels and edges do n't stick out and cause damage |
| 26 | It has to be designed or thought out carefully so that conscious decisions can be made about it . |
| 27 | Without this the same ones tend to be used repeatedly so that visual clues falling beyond their scope are either missed or ignored ; |
| 28 | Indeed , Dorinda now advises other women to recognize that beauty can not be made to last , and Leapor closes the poem urging women to improve themselves spiritually so that old age will be satisfying : |
| 29 | How much more sensible to redistribute the land more fairly so that poor families can keep normal , healthy-sized cows . |
| 30 | A potential danger is that the trend away from the identification and analysis of planation surfaces could go too far so that insufficient attention is accorded to these remnants in the landscapes of areas dominated by formerly extensive landsurfaces . |