Example sentences of "so [adj] [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1792 wages in Sheffield were said to be so high generally as to allow the leisure-preferring cutlers to live comfortably from working only three days a week . |
| 2 | But a certain failure , distressing to themselves , to be like other people , caused them to sink back , with so much else that drifted or was washed up , into the mud moorings of the great tide-way . |
| 3 | And take so much off and pat it up and then then wrap it , very nice and neatly . |
| 4 | All the trees , so large now as to enclose this garden , excluding the sight of other houses , so that but for the complex of railway lines it might have been in the country , were in late summer leaf . |
| 5 | So straw-burning rather than using straw for animals is something which is bad for the environment and for welfare . |
| 6 | Be so good now as to march these miscreants to Mutton House . |
| 7 | This article explains in more detail why establishing effective strategies for change is so important rather than leaving everything to ad hoc decision making . |
| 8 | How , she wondered bemusedly , could she have been so trivial recently as to wish to upset these unexceptionable people . |
| 9 | At first they seemed so close together as to form an impassable barrier , but as they drew nearer it became clear that they were several yards apart . |