Example sentences of "[vb pp] so [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ We are heartened by the fact producers have responded so quickly to the system . |
| 4 | McGeechan regrets that the home unions committee has adhered so rigidly to the terms of its acceptance of the invitation 12 months ago . |
| 5 | ‘ Or because they 're built so close to the ground . ’ |
| 6 | Eventually , after two or three weeks , he has moved so close to the females that he virtually touches them . |
| 7 | The ignition key was still in place — she could feel Lal 's little body in the car ; the driving-seat was moved so close to the steering that Nicandra found no room for her long legs . |
| 8 | A book written so close to the time is unlikely to have achieved the necessary perspective on such a controversial subject and not all of the evidence will have been accessible . |
| 9 | He stood quivering to the gradations of light that sang in the roof , and did not know what it was that moved him so , the hour , or the true beauty of the proportions and spaces about him , or the marvellous and frightening sense of having drawn so close to the spring of his own being . |
| 10 | She knew it annoyed Mrs. Mott , which was why she had agreed so peaceably to the girls not using the main staircase and the hall of the house to get to their sessions . |
| 11 | He did not like the fact that his potential assassins had got so close to the Hotel where he was staying . |
| 12 | Since the unions were tied so closely to the Labour Party , this was important for the party 's standing in the election . |
| 13 | Lydia asks me to pass her thanks to everyone who has contributed so generously to the campaign and says that while little has changed in the way of living conditions for the prisoners and their families , the campaigners are confident of their victory . |
| 14 | However the cost to DPR of providing this facility was only between $60 and $90 and the stop loss level was set so close to the market price that many contracts were very quickly wiped |
| 15 | Industrial base cut so close to the bone the marrow 's leaking out , the old vaguely socialist inefficiencies replaced with more rabid capitalist ones , power centralised , corruption institutionalised , and a generation created which 'll never have any skills beyond opening a car with a coat hanger and knowing which solvents give you the best buzz with a plastic bag over your head before you throw up or pass out . ’ |
| 16 | Why , in Oxford , has it been left so far to the police , the voluntary sector and private sponsorship to try to cobble together a scheme ? |
| 17 | We had passed so close to the Dutchman that I thought we must have run over his foot . |
| 18 | MSP 's politics have been shoved so far to the fore ( presumably to mop up any stray prejudice to their musical influences ) their very real talent for balls-out rock'n'roll has been largely ignored . |