Example sentences of "so [adj] [adv] [conj] the " in BNC.

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1 The section on the chemistry of gasication is not so definitive partly because the temperature gradient , which varies according to fuel and gasifier design , affects both the position of chemical equilibria and the relative rates of different reactions within the gasifier but also because few experimental results are available for interpretation .
2 Indeed this ‘ gender neutral ’ definition of sexism has become so prevalent even since the first edition of this book was written , it is necessary in this revised edition to be much more explicit about my use of the term .
3 Shutting his eyes , he stopped and was there the one he always remembered from his childhood polish , dust , though not so much now as the smell of books .
4 The proportion of out-of-wedlock births has increased so much mainly because the number of births to married couples has sharply declined .
5 The playing is so fine here that the notoriously ‘ unsatisfactory ’ ending makes complete sense .
6 While the loss of the West Bank reduced the demographic preponderance of the Palestinians in the state , the flight of so many eastwards and the drift of many to the economically more prosperous East Bank in previous years , left Jordan with at least 40 per cent of its population Palestinian .
7 So powerful indeed that the emperor had him killed .
8 Nights when ops were on were not so hectic now that the boys did not have the long runs to Berlin and Nuremburg , just specific targets in France and western Germany .
9 Rather than by using the fist , the greatest volume is attained more easily and also more beautifully by placing the notes so close together that the ear hears no space between them .
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