Example sentences of "so [adj] [conj] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the four books which Ransome set in East Anglia , the geographical details are so specific that the books can be used as accurate guides to the appropriate parts of Norfolk , Suffolk and Essex . |
| 2 | The plane flew up the fjord , which seemed so narrow that the mountains were on both wing tips at the same time . |
| 3 | ‘ The sound is so rich and the pickups are so strong . |
| 4 | Cessation of growth is most likely to result from starvation , which may arise because : the whelks eat out their food supply , or the supply fails for some other reason ( perhaps as a result of pollution Bryan ( 1969 ) ; wave action dislodges the whelks and transports them away from their food supply , or prevents them from feeding in some other way ( Cowell and Crothers , 1970 ) ; the temperature drops so low that the whelks become inactive for a long period ( Feare , 1970a ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Then they all sat down in a fashion so orderly that the files they formed were almost identical and equidistant . |
| 9 | But it would n't have been so funny if the robbers were n't as stupid as they were and the film would n't have been so good . |
| 10 | The sky was so clear and the stars so visible that the earth could almost be seen turning . |
| 11 | Many great rivers — the Ganges and the Indus , the Amazon and the Yangtze — are so muddy that the animals swimming in them can not see more than a few inches ahead . |
| 12 | News at Ten quickly became so popular that the companies built their evening scheduling round it . |
| 13 | By 1937 , the cheese had become so popular that the monks registered its name . |
| 14 | Moreover , the temperature is so high that no molecules can exist , and most of the atoms are ionized . |
| 15 | Many County Councils are selling off their statutory smallholdings ; on the rest the rents are so high that the tenants are forced into intensive husbandry . |
| 16 | LEVELS OF radioactive dust found in a home near the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in Cumbria were so high that the owners felt they had to move their two young sons to safety immediately , the High Court was told yesterday . |
| 17 | But GPT believes that demand will be so high that the services will be well established by the middle of the next decade . |
| 18 | In an exchange of letters in January , tensions rose so high that the leaders of the two sides are no longer talking to each other . |
| 19 | Interest rates have halved in the past 10 years to 5.75% , because Singapore 's savings rate is so high that the banks are flush with funds . |
| 20 | The worst-case forecast also shows curves only here the peaks are not so high and the troughs are much deeper . |
| 21 | The creamy-white leaves are so conspicuous that the flowers hardly show up at all but the fragrance is breath-taking . |
| 22 | A cabin cruiser was chugging down the wide brown river towards that little harbour I 'd seen , and over the other side the bank was so steep that the rows of terraced houses were leaning over each other to get a view . |
| 23 | ‘ That speech in A Fish Called Wanda , about Americans being so free and the Brits so repressed is fundamental to John 's philosophy of life . |
| 24 | I think really what happens when you go into the past is not so much that the laws that we now use change , but we just find that there are many more new rules and particles and things that can happen , so the things that we know are the same , but there are many , many more different types of interaction and particle in nature which we have no experience of , which we have to take into account . |
| 25 | It is not so much that the Conservatives have deliberately introduced racist policies as that they have ignored the harmful impact of their policies on ethnic minorities . |
| 26 | Although it was true in each case that the essential content was the same , the emphasis varied so much that the skills and concepts developed were essentially different . |
| 27 | We can say that the problem being defined here is not so much that the pupils are getting the wrong education ( though they might be getting the wrong teachers ) as that industry is getting the wrong pupils ! |
| 28 | The flowers open so much that the petals swing back . |
| 29 | On the scrap heap , girls , after fifty , unless you alter and stretch so much that the staples keep hitting the continuity girl . |
| 30 | Well even m er my kiddies er not An er Joan so much but the others seven o'clock was the latest they ever went to bed . |