Example sentences of "[vb pp] so [adj] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gasoline had been rationed since 1978 , when oil output was reported so low that domestic needs could not be met . |
| 2 | Passing the two horses that had looked so sad and bedraggled that first day , she lingered to watch them . |
| 3 | This method was considered so cost-effective that some firms continued to employ it even when machine printing offered an alternative way of evading skilled men 's wages . |
| 4 | They were considered so remarkable that many people , biologists among them , were unable to believe that they arose through natural selection . |
| 5 | But you have grown so tall and handsome . ’ |
| 6 | She had grown so tall and disrespectful that the old woman was afraid to hit her . |
| 7 | It had grown so wild and unruly that it threatened to smother all the flowers . |
| 8 | She had felt so scratchy and irritable before — not surprising , given the way the day had gone , but hardly fair , perhaps , to take it all out on him — Most of it , she thought , smiling , yes . |
| 9 | She had felt so free and lithe along the beach . |
| 10 | Dot remembered what it was like when she had felt so ill and confused . |
| 11 | The the options seem to me , as Mr Mr said that the thing had got so convoluted and confused that the simple option seemed to be close it all down and I I would imagine that groups , other than ourselves who 've had people like me in the group who 've said why are this thing coming up again , let's close it down and have done with it . |
| 12 | It would seem that your general behaviour and sense of discipline has become so lax and sloppy that you do not even remember serious breaches of conduct . |
| 13 | Another , upon which it depends and which usually arises early in a child 's educational career , before the extrinsic rewards have become so tangible and external , is his or her teacher 's public comparison of one student with another . |
| 14 | In contrast to the United States , executive control of the House of Commons via party loyalty has become so thorough that such committees can operate only within a context defined by the executive . |
| 15 | Mr Lumley said parallel trade had become so great that eight in 10 High Street chemists in Britain regularly dispensed drugs made in Britain , exported to France , say , and re-imported for sale to NHS patients . |
| 16 | The fervour has become so great that some now argue for a tightening of the Obscene Publications Act . |
| 17 | ‘ The coercion may of course be of different kinds , it may be in the grossest form , such as actual confinement or violence , or a person in the last days or hours of life may have become so weak and feeble , that a very little pressure will be sufficient to bring about the desired result , and it may even be , that the mere talking to him at that stage of illness and pressing something upon him may so fatigue the brain , that the sick person may be induced , for quietness ' sake , to do anything . |
| 18 | Businesses have become so complex and diverse that it is not possible to achieve complete uniformity of accounting bases . |
| 19 | The state apparatus has become so corrupt and exploitative that the common man sees it as an enemy . |
| 20 | Years of trial work resulted in the discovery that organo- mercury seed treatments would control these seed-borne diseases , and from the 1940's their use has become so universal that such devastating diseases have never been witnessed by a generation or two of farmers . |
| 21 | During the Second World War of 1939 to 1945 , Chiswick House was occupied by the Fire Services and the house , remarkably , was hit by incendiary bombs , so the condition of the entire property had become so dilapidated that entire renovation was required . |
| 22 | Its tasty home-cooking has become so popular that ordinary diners are squeezing the fishermen out . |
| 23 | In the capitalist West new markets opened up , and the industries that had become so busy and productive in the war effort were ready to go again in a postwar boom . |
| 24 | Its short opera season has proved so popular that most of the tickets are now taken up by sponsors — including Glassdrumman on behalf of its guests . |
| 25 | Predictably , the Koons exhibit dominated attention at a festival that included work from scores of internationally renowned , but less flashy artists , and even proved so provocative that one fanatic ended up slashing each painting with a knife , some four months after the show opened . |
| 26 | No one then had time to utter what he dreaded ; but afterwards , though those about the king held their peace doggedly , and spoke only of phenomenally bad weather against which no man could guard , in the ranks men were saying to one another that this was no natural storm , that there had never been known so strange and violent a tempest , that it was sent out of malice against them , either by Owen himself , or by those stiff-necked Franciscans of Llanfaes whose house the king had burned , and who were allies of Owen and the devil to the last man . |
| 27 | Caroline Little for family reasons had to give up many of her recreational classes , but started a class for stroke victims which has provided so beneficial and popular that it has now been recognised in an official capacity . |
| 28 | The Frasque , that had seemed so desiccated and invulnerable , shrivelled and burned at the Capellans ' slightest gesture . |
| 29 | People who had at first seemed so friendly and decent and open and neighbourly , but who , after two or three encounters , had turned into ravingly obsessive lunatics . |
| 30 | It was quite a shock to everyone when it was known that Mr Wilson had died ; he who had always seemed so solid and enduring . |