Example sentences of "so [adj] [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Montgomerie family finances continued on their downwards spiral until , in 1925 , they were so low that the contents of Eglinton Castle had to be auctioned off , including the suit of armour bought by the 13th Earl for the Tournament . |
| 32 | ‘ ( two ) because staff levels so low and no turnover ’ … ‘ none apart from pre-licentiate programmes ’ … ‘ none at all ’ … ‘ one external course plus health and safety training ’ . |
| 33 | The Secretary of State seems to think that we should be so grateful that the Government have promised that the poll tax will go that we should not look too closely at what will replace it . |
| 34 | If the horse is thumped by the farrier , or we belt it with a cane , the horse is likely to become so upset that the chances are we will never be able to shoe the horse ! |
| 35 | ‘ In the administration of government in this country the functions which are given to ministers ( and constitutionally properly given to ministers because they are constitutionally responsible ) are functions so multifarious that no minister could ever personally attend to them . |
| 36 | As many as one in five of the population attends an accident and emergency unit every year , yet staff shortages are so acute that a quarter of the 239 units in England and Wales do not have a trained consultant in charge . |
| 37 | A little earlier when they 'd listened to the Army vehicle 's wireless her hearing had been so acute that every syllable spoken sounded as if it were being shouted directly into her ear . |
| 38 | Will there come a time when that might become so acute that the Minister would be prepared to consider an opt-out as opposed to an opt-in donor system ? |
| 39 | However , the complications created by roots are not so acute when the tree is standing on level land . |
| 40 | The ditch sides were so slippy that every time the frog jumped 2m up the side of the ditch , it slipped back down 1m . |
| 41 | It has mass , but so little that the nucleus has some 99.99 per cent of the weight of an atom . |
| 42 | Quencher centres : where even the excited state of the centre is close to a radiationless transition level , so little or no luminescence is emitted . |
| 43 | It is also important to remember that where jobs are indeed a problem , as in Ireland , postgraduate research positions should be clearly seen as making a major contribution to employment — where else would employment cost so little and the employee undergo intensive training ? |
| 44 | In the words of one of them , the background noise was so loud that a rifle shot sounded comparable to ‘ the popping of a champagne cork amid the hubbub of a banquet ’ . |
| 45 | It grew so loud that the shed shook , and then it stopped suddenly , leaving a nasty kind of silence that was worse than the noise . |
| 46 | The noise was so loud and the light so bright that he sat still as a stone . |
| 47 | Previously the government had argued that the slave trade was so profitable that the traders could pay for their own forts , but by the mid-eighteenth century this attitude had changed to an acceptance of the fact that the trade was so necessary for the sugar islands ( and the sugar islands so necessary for the British economy ) that the trade would have to be supported if it could not afford to meet these overhead costs . |
| 48 | The resulting map ( figure 12.1 ) plots the relationship between these dimensions although the overall discrimination was so weak that the judgment could be considered as undifferentiated . |
| 49 | By the third morning , however , I was so weak and the pain so unbearable that they had little difficulty in taking me up to the theatre and performing the necessary operation . |
| 50 | The apparent ascendancy of nuclear-deterrence thinking over laws-of-war thinking has been so complete that the idea of deterrence has come to be associated in the public mind almost exclusively with extreme offensive threats against the adversary 's society . |
| 51 | Gerrard raised his hands again , and this time his control over them was so complete that the applause stopped and there was silence . |
| 52 | Section 123(1) of the Insolvency Act 1986 provides that a company is deemed unable to pay its debts if a creditor ( by assignment or otherwise ) to whom the company is indebted in a sum exceeding £750 then due has served on the company , by leaving it at the company 's registered office , a written demand ( in the prescribed form ) requiring the company to pay the sum so due and the company has for three weeks thereafter neglected to pay the sum or to secure or compound for it to the reasonable satisfaction of the creditor . |
| 53 | ‘ I took a kick on the side of the knee and it was so unnecessary because the ball was two or three yards away . |
| 54 | It is in fact an underground river so extensive that the trip in a flat-bottomed boat lasts twenty-five minutes . |
| 55 | In Ireland , the coverage of unions is now so extensive that the loan sharks have been almost driven out of business . |
| 56 | Then they all sat down in a fashion so orderly that the files they formed were almost identical and equidistant . |
| 57 | Why should her pulse-beat grow light and fast and her mouth become so dry that the impulse to lick her lips was mandatory ? |
| 58 | Knowledge of him was so slim that the magazine Private Eye even suggested mischievously that the Department of Energy computer might have mistakenly selected him instead of another man of the same name . |
| 59 | I could fancy her if she was n't so old and a teacher . |
| 60 | She did n't much rate her chances of getting hold of the key to Charlie 's desk , but the desk itself was so old and the drawer appeared to be so ill-fitting that a touch of leverage might just spring it open . |