Example sentences of "[vb pp] so [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , I , I , I did n't say the question lightly it 's just that I think it needs watching , and I wondered how it was , because I 've heard so often in the past , that people have so many lines of enquiries , but the money goes , and you know , it 's all marvellous , and I 'm not suggesting |
| 2 | She tried to shake her head , but found she was pressed so hard against the stack behind her that movement was impossible . |
| 3 | She reported that there was a general feeling of satisfaction with the standard of publicity that the Year had received so far from the media . |
| 4 | Some barbed quills have reputedly travelled so deep into the bodies of their victims that they have caused the deaths of the predators from the extensive damage caused to vital internal organs . |
| 5 | It was then that the Dwarves came to him , fed him , warmed him in their mansions and asked his purpose , for no mortal man had ever travelled so far into the mountains . |
| 6 | When he had finished Morse had the strong feeling that what he had just implied was surely true : there must be some connection between the disturbing events which had developed so rapidly around the Wolvercote Tongue . |
| 7 | The main problem in windsurfing is that it has developed so rapidly in the last ten years that boards only a few years old are very out of date and lack the features mentioned earlier . |
| 8 | What we want to do this morning is erm tt talk a little bit to you about er the quality system and the I S O Nine Thousand procedures and er documented er systems , which have been developed so far within the whole group . |
| 9 | This involved the creation of an Intendant-General of Finance and a number of Secretaries of State : the cumbersome system of councils on which the Spanish Habsburgs had relied so heavily in the previous century began to fall into disuse , the Council of Castile alone remaining important . |
| 10 | Such signs of relative forgiveness on the part of the leaders he had persecuted so relentlessly in the past , particularly Deng Xiaoping , offer perhaps the clearest insight into Chen 's career : he had never been a political force in his own right but merely a faithful interpreter and executor of Mao 's will . |
| 11 | Disappointed , though , that it had so little capacity , that the machine 's power was squandered so liberally on the user interface rather than running the applications . |
| 12 | The emphasis which has been placed so far on the curriculum is intentional . |
| 13 | Although the latter once jocularly remarked to Briand , the Premier , that in his relationship with Joffre ‘ apart from sleeping together , we could n't do anything more to show our intimacy ’ and although every afternoon — as part of the Chantilly ritual — he accompanied the Commander-in-Chief on his post-prandial stroll , Joffre and his coterie were as jealous as Turks of the brother-general placed so dangerously near the throne . |
| 14 | The images were still as clear as the rain that had fallen so dispiritedly on the mourners as they stood at one side of the grave while the rector had intoned the fateful words . |
| 15 | It is rather strange that so little attention has been given so far to the mechanical properties of biological materials , though perhaps in human terms it is understandable . |
| 16 | No wonder women are treated so badly in the world when even an organisation such as Amnesty judges them in terms of their lives only meaning something if they can ‘ belong ’ to a man . |
| 17 | And as I say , in during the war years our rations , we were all treated so fairly at the Co-op I believe you know , we were really treated fairly . |
| 18 | Political prosecutions and political imprisonment may be deemed so far in the past as to be without modern day relevance . |
| 19 | Sally went , relieved at not having had her love bite spotted but filled with indignation at having been blamed so unjustly for the Gran Bristow episode . |
| 20 | Majority foreign ownership was not permitted under Argentinian law , and the fact that the Iberia stake had now come so close to the maximum threshold , was seen as imperilling the whole privatization process . |
| 21 | As a leader among the Owenites , Doherty may not have looked so far towards the promised land of Owen 's splendid but indistinct new view ; but his perception , though narrower , was clearer . |
| 22 | But the slivers , so moist , so delicious , had been interleaved with greaseproof paper , and the white tray in which they lay had looked so very like the ones she had looked at with hopeless longing in Marks and Spencer , except that someone had torn off the label . |
| 23 | ‘ We are heartened by the fact producers have responded so quickly to the system . |
| 24 | McGeechan regrets that the home unions committee has adhered so rigidly to the terms of its acceptance of the invitation 12 months ago . |
| 25 | The issue has been considered so far in the narrow context of a union between an operated transsexual and another . |
| 26 | All the arguments considered so far against the use of portfolio-grid analysis of the McKinsey-GE type are , in my view , better seen as warnings about simplistic use of the technique rather than as indicating fundamental flaws in it . |
| 27 | What then is this second economy which has grown so massively in the shadow of one that the state has planned and controlled for decades ? |
| 28 | Interest in golf has grown so rapidly in the last ten years that it has reached out beyond its traditional confines and become glamorous . |
| 29 | The nomes who have n't done so well since the Drive . |
| 30 | And it 's Tommy who 's scored , the young Irishman has done so well at the heart of the defence for Shrewsbury , has got into the opposition penalty area and what about this for a score line ? |