Example sentences of "so [adj] [coord] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The simile was so striking and no doubt so apt , and one that was so delightfully Eliotish , that I could not take offence , though a critical word from that quarter could deal a heavy blow to one 's morale .
2 oh the cupboards are brilliant it 's just the fronts are so dated and the man in these reports in the house said erm , kitchen is satisfactory but it needs updating and it was only about seven years ago it was brand new , no , not seven , have we been in then , no eight , so nine or something , I know the fronts need sorting out .
3 ‘ The sound is so rich and the pickups are so strong .
4 and it was and you could n't get near it because the heat of the fire was so strong and the smell of the of the smoke was overpow you literally could n't get near it and everyone had to come away .
5 Yet in a country where the pull of the past is so strong and the future so tantalising , it is best when you are travelling to live exclusively in the present .
6 The anticipated sense of loss can be so strong and the wish to feel you have done everything the dying person wanted so real that the people involved will often comply no matter how outrageous the request .
7 ‘ ( 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 ’ .
8 Quencher centres : where even the excited state of the centre is close to a radiationless transition level , so little or no luminescence is emitted .
9 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 ?
10 The noise was so loud and the light so bright that he sat still as a stone .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 I could fancy her if she was n't so old and a teacher .
14 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 .
15 The sky was so clear and the stars so visible that the earth could almost be seen turning .
16 People were so kind and friendly , the atmosphere was so different and the weather , well , that was unreal .
17 In no other religion are the stakes so high and the choice so momentous . ’
18 The worst-case forecast also shows curves only here the peaks are not so high and the troughs are much deeper .
19 ‘ 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 .
20 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 .
21 Er they say that 's where most of it went on er they would go into the pub and the riveter would tally up the the sheet for the week and say well okay , that 's , you know , the holder-on gets so much and the rivet boy gets so much , and the riveter got so much , and what have you .
22 She had waited long after midnight in the empty street until the Muckrakers doors were thrown open and ‘ the squeakies ’ filled the street with shouts of resentment at being fetched from their pleasures so early and the sound of long , passionate , gossiping farewells until school on Monday morning .
23 than that dear it 's down the other end , the other side of Old Harlow , but he used to have a surgery there which he , you know , made it better after the erm , to ease up Dr surgery cos that was so packed and the shops were absolutely and you used to have to queue and queue for , to get your shopping , you could n't , I used to cycle into Harlow and leave my cycle somewhere and then go along do my shopping , but it used to be two or three hours ' job it was , you did n't get done till dinner time and then I used to call it a , a lady used to say call there that used to have the fried fish and chip shop on the corner of erm Harlow and I used to go there and have a cup of tea before I came home because I used to be so long shopping you could n't get served you see , it 's too many people , there was nowhere else for them to go , it was only Bishop 's Stortford you had to go
24 In Peru distances are so vast and the terrain can be so formidable that aeroplanes are not a luxury , but often the only shakily effective means of passing between desert , mountain and jungle .
25 So six and a half for that one .
26 The action is so smooth and the water displacement so little , hardly any evidence of a disturbed surface , even in calm conditions , remains .
27 And she said well I 'm very sorry she said but your adjudicator 's so rude and the way he described himself , he should
28 Which which is why really at that th for the development funding they did the did n't particularly want I I P supporting because it is so structured and a lot of it is on a plate in a sense .
29 The whole subject of the relation of sea levels to Pleistocene events is so confused and the possibility of new information being obtained by the botanical study of interglacial beds so important , that it is better to leave the question open at the moment .
30 I mean I could get this whole place so tidy and the kids come home from school and it 's like a bomb 's exploded and nothing 's appreciated about it , whereas if you 're decorating or teaching children there 's something always gained out of it … as far as actual housework goes , I do n't see how anyone can like it .
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