Example sentences of "so [adj] [to-vb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Having done so much to point up the plight of blacks in the 1960s and 1970s , Ali reduced himself to little more than a comic figure in much the same way as Johnson had . |
2 | Corinth , which had done so much to bring on the war by urging on Sparta , was more damaged by it , and more permanently , than any other city . |
3 | Rarely has a government been so hard-put to explain why a bill will benefit Britain . |
4 | It would be so easy to give up the battle she 'd been waging against him , simply to lay down her arms and give herself up to the ecstasy of possession . |
5 | It was easy enough to get the front door open one-handed , not so easy to switch on the hall light with no hands at all . |
6 | This is what Alexander experienced and is the very reason why it took him so long to sort out the problem with his voice . |
7 | It 's so difficult to add up the the hours , but I mean it 's a number of days of course it 's not working solidly you know , maybe only for an up an hour or an hour . |
8 | It is because Britain will resist that idea in Malaysia that Whitehall is so anxious to build up a record of consultation , commitment and sympathy towards the majority in South Africa . |