Example sentences of "so [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 're not already using some form of contraceptive , you 'd better see to it , although normally I 'd agree that it 's a joint responsibility , since it seems that I 'm so atrociously lacking in control where you 're concerned … damn you , Maria . ’ |
| 2 | What has pleased me is the way in which the living material of Rural Studies is so avidly used in Art nowadays , not just in primary schools , but in secondary schools , too . |
| 3 | We know that niello is a metal sulphide , made by heating metal filings with sulphur , but could there be a continuity of tradition amongst the metalworkers of cultures so widely separated by time and geography ? |
| 4 | These problems suddenly appeared quite separately from those dietary concerns about fats , fibre , sugar and salt which arose from the COMA report in 1984 , and which have been so widely used in food manufacturers ' advertising claims . |
| 5 | Given that framework , the glaring injustice to which the Whigs pointed was that the distribution of seats in Parliament should secure the ‘ representation of green mounds , of stone wall , even of a pig sty , while many of our most populous manufacturing towns remain unrepresented ’ ; that one propertied class should be overwhelmingly represented while another had so little say in Parliament . |
| 6 | Ultimately , much of the debate comes down to the question of choice , the word that the Tories have so successfully colonised in rhetoric and so often failed to deliver in reality . |
| 7 | But it is gon na be a lengthy er injury and that is a major blow so successfully converted from centre half to striker . |
| 8 | Were he not so useful and entertaining on his main subject , Boswell might easily call all his facts into question by such a blatant lie , so blatantly told to curry Establishment favour in London . |
| 9 | Even had it been the best apple tree anyone could knit I can not see that I would hang swing tickets on it ( so badly coloured with felt tip pen that the Infant 's class would be ashamed of the work ! ) . |
| 10 | The controversy received a new lease of life in March 1983 when the Irish Farmers Monthly published a confidential , internal IBM report and claimed that up to 2,000 acres of agricultural land near the mine were so badly contaminated with lead , zinc and arsenic that they were unsuitable for agriculture . |
| 11 | From the previous year he had been so badly affected by osteoarthritis that his mobility had become very restricted . |
| 12 | And now she was frightened of him — Dr Neil , who was so kind and good , and had already been so badly damaged by life … |
| 13 | Ally Donaldson , to his credit , gave the impression of being grimly determined to answer those who say he does n't tackle but he was not the naturally punitive defender who was so badly needed in view of the back row 's shortcomings . |
| 14 | I no longer saw them , indeed , as legless beings on self moving pedestals as I had done at Salisbury but from being so constantly restricted in movement it seemed that they must be incapable of movement . |
| 15 | The graves had to be searched for in what looked like a clearing in a pine wood , they were so thickly overgrown with grass and heather . |
| 16 | The examples given in Table 6.1 refer to the kind of experience well within the capacity potentially of everyone , and may be so much accepted as part of everyday life as to go unnoticed . |
| 17 | Around me , as the pirates and Famlio stared at Gharr , the atmosphere grew so much charged with fury and tension that it almost crackled , like a defective energy field . |
| 18 | But here again the knowledge is so practical , so much preconditioned by behaviour , that it can be taught and is taught mainly by doing what they are told to do on particular occasions and by not being allowed to do or to touch certain things that are always within their experience . |
| 19 | The whole operation does not so much aspire to style as do what it pleases with it . |
| 20 | Our bondage to society is not so much established by conquest as by collusion … we are entrapped by our own social nature . |
| 21 | By June 1318 the forest of Selwood in Wiltshire had been so much reduced in size that the warden 's farm of £10 a year could no longer be paid , and the Forest of Dean had been reduced by a quarter before the end of the reign . |
| 22 | Crown lands had been so much reduced in size that the most efficient management could not have increased their yield to the point at which they might have made any significant impact on royal finances . |
| 23 | He used to tell me I was going to fail but I did so much work at home it was my best subject . |
| 24 | Sandy was so much taken by surprise that her sickness was forgotten . |
| 25 | A main reason why lapis lazuli was so highly regarded in antiquity was the brilliance of its colour , blue flecked with gold . |
| 26 | As the work proceeds she/he makes tentative decisions on what to do with each title , and in doing so obviously takes into account the amount of money shortly to be used for replenishing the stock . |
| 27 | She half held it out to Ellie as fair play so obviously fought with desire — and Ellie took the decision out of her hands by shouting , ‘ She 's found one ! ’ |
| 28 | Rob was so obviously brimming with enthusiasm that Merrill had to say carefully , ‘ I think it sounds delightful . ’ |
| 29 | Unlike the USSR , whose potential for national disruption , so long kept in check , can now be seen through the new transparency of glasnost . |
| 30 | Armstrong World Industries , so long concentrating on mineral fibre ceiling systems , has now introduced a metal laminate system — the ML ceiling . |