Example sentences of "a [noun] so [adv] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we have to build is a universe so manifestly and intrinsically unjust that its inhabitants can not fail to rebel against it . |
| 2 | Staff at the hospital had been amazed they had found a donor so quickly and her husband was overwhelmed by the speed of the events . |
| 3 | Members of the resident stage crew wandered round , looking at their watches and making dark remarks about amateurism and provincial rep. and the folly of trying to bring in a show so quickly and the unlikelihood of its being presentable in time for the Monday night preview . |
| 4 | It 's said he can geld and cauterise a pony so expertly and swiftly there 's hardly time for blood to spill . ’ |
| 5 | Few historians , admittedly , have sought to criticize the attempt to democratize a country so clearly and grossly racked by inequality , though most have quite reasonably stressed the unavoidable difficulties that such an attempt posed . |