Example sentences of "so [adj] [conj] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They er well I think constitutionally it 's very difficult and this is why there is now in a similar sense as why I suggested it to you as a subject , because not only it was er a very emotional story of a glamorous young woman saying I ca n't cope with being treated by the media and other people , I 'm going to retreat but what made it so historic and therefore the treatment of it 's so interesting , was that it presented such an extraordinary constitutional position |
| 2 | He was on his way south from a place called Nunyerry when , he said , monsoon clouds forced him to fly lower and lower into the Turner Ranges , one of those areas of outback Australia that are so inhospitable that even the local animals hibernate below ground . |
| 3 | The Act is perhaps not so clear where only the claimant with a possessory title is before the court , for example , because the true owner does not appear or can not be found . |
| 4 | Jenny was heartily relieved that the recent bad weather had made the track so muddy that even the passionate and rather drunk Ted had not dared go any further . |
| 5 | Already the biggest obstacle to the dissemination of improved techniques of mud building is that scientists and housing experts have decried mud so much that even the poor , who have no alternative to mud , do not want to live in it . |
| 6 | They 're spread all over the country , which is why I have to travel so much and why the Consulate had difficulty tracing me . ’ |
| 7 | The Big Bang was violent — so violent that only the smallest bits of atomic particles could have survived . |
| 8 | The Miscarriage Association believes that one in three pregnancies end in miscarriage often so early that even the mother is not aware . |
| 9 | ‘ The tenancy shall continue until the said land is required by the council for the purposes of the widening of Walworth Road and the street paving works rendered necessary thereby and the council shall give two months ' notice to the tenant at least prior to the day of determination when the said land is so required and thereupon the tenant shall give vacant possession to the council of the said land … |
| 10 | The food was so hard that even the small denizens of the forest had left it alone . |
| 11 | 121 yachts had their rigging and sails checked one last time and then crews pottered about anxiously , generating an atmosphere of nervousness so pervasive that even the spectators felt tense . |
| 12 | The security at the Palace was so tight that even the band 's ersatz manager , Scott Piering , could not gain admittance for his close acquaintances . |
| 13 | ‘ But the problem about heroin is that the money is so good that even the good people do it ’ . |
| 14 | And here we 've got a couple that happen to be olive trees , and I , I 'm not so sure that just the fact that they 're olive trees really is that important . |
| 15 | Pauchling the figures has gone on for so long that even the newscasters have got sloppy , mostly failing to add the rider that the bald headcount does not include anybody excluded from claiming benefit for whatever reason . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's not anything to do with biology or psychology or any science or the old philosophies — it 's something so deep that even the most delicately poised approach almost inevitably occludes it . |
| 17 | The fact was that distrust of Chamberlain ran so deep that even the most unequivocal supporter of rearmament in the labour movement could not give unreserved support to his Government 's military preparations . |
| 18 | The area was so poor that even the dead rats in the street looked as though they had died of hunger . |
| 19 | And so more than ever the ‘ voluntary ’ CAB finds itself carrying out what should be in effect a statutory task . |
| 20 | Maybe so , but there is good and bad , effective and ineffective propaganda , and , as Nizan himself was acutely aware , the technical problems associated with injecting ideology and politics into literature were so enormous that only the most adroit , the most cunning of revolutionary writers would be successful in creating an effective balance between ideological effect and aesthetic technique . |
| 21 | Sometimes and in some places , the labour is so time-consuming that even the most hard-working of parents can not manage it unaided . |
| 22 | And everything about her , her long nightdress and the mist she was held in , was so golden-red that even the dark gold skin of her lovely face had a reddish tinge to it . |
| 23 | THERE are some disasters that are so ghastly that even the voyeur averts the eyes . |
| 24 | The planet p' is so small that even the biggest available telescopes can not possibly observe it ; the experimental astronomer applies for a research grant to build yet a bigger one . |
| 25 | The bearer pulled him into a passage so thin that even the narrowest of stalls could not wedge itself in . |
| 26 | Until recently the fact that the strength of engineering materials is usually only between one and five per cent of the strength of their chemical bonds was of little practical significance because the joints between the various component parts of structures were so inefficient that even the strength which the material had was scarcely used . |
| 27 | The vegetation that has not yet been destroyed by the goats and donkeys seems a mass of sharp thorns , and in some places it is so thick that even the goats can get through only on their knees . |
| 28 | His good humour was so infectious that even the fräulein managed a wan smile . |
| 29 | Since the fear of fear will not be so great you will not be so distressed and then the anxiety will fade away of its own accord . |
| 30 | The marshes of Essex , he said , were so right-wing that even the newsagents were white . |