Example sentences of "so [adj] [conj] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chomsky has claimed that the principles underlying the structure of language are so specific and so highly articulated that they must be regarded as being biologically determined ; that is , as constituting part of what we call " human nature " and as being genetically transmitted from parents to children . |
| 2 | And in the depths of the forest , the humming is still strong , and the wind is still swirling all about us , and something is stirring , something that is so strong and so purely magical that no one has ever been able to resist it … |
| 3 | Many of Morse 's ideas were either so strange or so wildly improbable that most of them were always doomed to early disappointment . |
| 4 | For it is a prime fact about classical Macedon , and one that explains why so large and rich a country counted for so little until so late , that she was a frontier province of the Greek world ; beyond lay Illyrians , Dardanians and Thracians , and beyond them the drifting pre-Celtic populations of central Europe , undisciplined fighters but unlimited in manpower . |
| 5 | It was so loud and so deep it was n't really sound at all , just something that turned the air hard and then hit you with it . |
| 6 | In fact , he laughed so loud and so often that One Over The Eight practically came to a halt . |
| 7 | ‘ You are so foreign and yet so familiar . |
| 8 | ‘ Gervase would not ask the way , and the street lamps were so few and far between that it was impossible to use our map . |
| 9 | Among those noting Xu 's habit of using just one board ( ingredients are so fresh and so quickly prepared that food poisoning is not considered a threat ) is Keith Mitchell , team captain of the British chefs competing at the culinary Olympics in Frankfurt next year , and head chef at the Grand Hotel , Eastbourne , East Sussex . |
| 10 | The spacing of such steps on pointe is so minute and so fast that it is not possible to see the change of feet as one succeeds the other . |
| 11 | The withdrawal of earlier death has been so marked that today most English people will have no direct experience of the grief of bereavement until they lose their own parents , when they are themselves well into middle age . |
| 12 | He saw so much and so keenly , his vision enhanced by his occulobe . |
| 13 | I conclude that they have done so much and so well they will find it hard to let go those duties . |
| 14 | In fact she talked so much and so often about it that I feel I have been there myself . ’ |
| 15 | Perhaps it is not surprising , because those demands change so much and so often . |
| 16 | It is to the credit of these players ( and to William MacIlwraith 's also ) that I do not recall ever having laughed so much and so heartily at a play that I liked so little . ’ |
| 17 | It was actually against Brighton ( 10–1 ) , here at Selhurst Park on 3 January 1942 in a wartime London League match , but even so , there can be few , if any , other players whose careers began so early and so explosively . |
| 18 | One minute a mere tomboy Neighbour with a habit of putting a spanner in the works , the next Kylie was an overnight sensation , a pop princess with the Midas touch , so ordinary and yet so electrifying . |
| 19 | However , as his work was so similar and geographically near by , he suggested to the DOE that there should be contact and openly advertised his presence . |
| 20 | It is so simple and yet so effective . |
| 21 | you ca n't say what you want to say because you are so nervous and so on ! |
| 22 | The scenes that followed were so piteous that even now , two days after , I tremble to recall them ; and the screams of the women and frightened children are with me day and night . |
| 23 | Third , the plight of the business may be so grave , and the selection of the individuals concerned so inevitable and so urgently required , that consultation would make absolutely no difference to the outcome . |
| 24 | The ‘ implications ’ of literacy are not so obvious nor so easily elicited or described as Goody suggests . |
| 25 | Many thanks to those who worked so hard and so well to prepare the children . |
| 26 | But , as she explained afterwards , with Seles hitting so hard and so deep , it was very difficult to play any other way against her . |
| 27 | Hindsight says that if the Lotus mechanics had n't worked so hard and so efficiently and if Emerson had n't been able to race , Jackie Stewart 's two victories in the last grands prix of the season would have given him the championship . |
| 28 | Did Daniel Ortega struggle so hard and so long , suffer seven years in jail , and defy the mighty US at such cost to his country , only to drive his jeep into the sunset ? |
| 29 | Did Daniel Ortega struggle so hard and so long , suffer seven years in jail , and defy the mighty US at such cost to his country , only to drive his jeep into the sunset ? |
| 30 | Perhaps in this case the injunction can be ignored since the pattern is so widespread and so instinctively attractive . |