Example sentences of "it [verb] so [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It got so bad FBI agents had to stay at my house to protect me from religious extremists whipped up by their campaign . ’ |
| 2 | It kept the Navigation Acts up to date , but under Walpole 's premiership in the 1720s and 1730s it passed so little legislation of any general application even within Britain that it was quite natural for it to do nothing about the colonies . |
| 3 | This one is — it involves so many factors , you see . ’ |
| 4 | This is undoubtedly the most tiring skill to learn since it involves so much swimming . |
| 5 | As one of the best records of 1990 it was actually a lucky escape that it sold so few copies , missed Top Of The Pops , slipped the chance of a slot on youth TV and lost the chase for Sunday newspaper publicity . |
| 6 | It 's quite rare , which is why it made so much publicity . |
| 7 | Why , then , has it given so much trouble to so many ? |
| 8 | The furniture-making craft is so wide and it covers so many disciplines that it is impossible to have in-depth knowledge of all these disciplines all the time . |
| 9 | I just think it , I just think it 's so sad , like in London , it has so many cultures , and like , wow , it 's really good for the cultures to mix , but it does n't work , |
| 10 | I think that is why it has so many cinema fans and why the best cinema creators in Spain come from there . |
| 11 | ‘ One never knows what the fire will do , and it has so many aspects . |
| 12 | If it has so little status , why bother understanding it , one might ask ! |
| 13 | Our Sun ‘ loses ’ 4 million tons of mass this way every second — but it has so much mass to play with that this rate of mass loss would only add up to 7 per cent of the total after about a trillion ( million million ) years . |
| 14 | It has so much depth , much more than if I were to express myself in other languages . |
| 15 | But it has so much scope to go further . |
| 16 | It has so much detail from which to draw inspiration and enthusiasts around Britain should find a place on their shelves for it . |
| 17 | ‘ It has so much atmosphere that one can almost see the medieval wool merchants going about their business . |
| 18 | It contains so many memories . ’ |
| 19 | We realise that this prospectus may not answer all your questions , or even that it contains so much information that it leaves you confused . |
| 20 | Local people should be encouraged to obtain a copy of the guide , said Mr Davies , as it contains so much information about Mid Wales and its attractions . |
| 21 | The cake mixture will curdle slightly , as it contains so little flour — but do not worry . |
| 22 | But it places so little emphasis on resistance to the dominant culture , that it either becomes a sort of ‘ toothless liberalism ’ ( Segal 1987 : 24 ) , or ignores politics completely . |
| 23 | ‘ It caused so much pressure inside the home that I 'm not surprised Denise has had enough . |
| 24 | It looks rather splendid , but it attracted so much attention that after two days she took it all out . |
| 25 | No Women 's Open was held as it attracted so few entrants , so all gained automatic entry to the Grand Prix . |
| 26 | But it ate so much procession power that most PCs could n't drive it fast enough , so hardly anyone bought it . |
| 27 | In this it was perhaps too successful , for it provoked so much hostility from the car lobby that reprinting of the book ceased some two years after it was first published . |
| 28 | It bears so much fruit that it can still supply the appetites of 50 children and a large population of garden birds . |
| 29 | Mrs Jones felt that the slow progress of the assessment and the limited information she received created new problems instead of resolving existing ones : ‘ It introduces so much trauma — you 're getting all the criticism all the time but you 're not getting any information because it takes so long . ’ |
| 30 | the trouble is not having enough modern catalogues of , of things that you can actually buy today because when they manufacturer them now they do n't erm make catalogues as often as they used to do er , it costs so much money in it I 'd er , I , I think that probably the next trend is going to be in lighting fittings er which will take in er you er , low energy lamps er , at the erm , the new fluorescent lamps er where erm , well there 's one in the hall which takes eight watts and it 's given us as much light out as a hundred watt lamp , er and |