Example sentences of "so [adj] [to-vb] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to this day I have nightmares in which I have to go back to school , and I 'm so relieved to wake up and find that it was only a dream . |
| 2 | Hats , caps and headgear of various kinds are useful because they are so easy to use quickly and without fuss . |
| 3 | Right : It 's so easy to sit back and relax in this beautiful conservatory from Durabuild . |
| 4 | We may prefer arrangements based on institutions like the church and the shop but gangs and parties are also forms of social institution , not perhaps quite so easy to break down and displace as ‘ disorganization , would imply . |
| 5 | But remedies involving , for example , an extra tax payable by each person in a household would at the moment be madness : many councils would be left struggling with exactly the enforcement difficulties that have made the poll tax so hard to set up and administer . |
| 6 | They were overwhelmed by the response , and by the willingness of so many to step forward and be counted in court when the time came . |
| 7 | We 're on the dear old elevated section of the M4 where lorries are so apt to break down when there 's a call for McDunn ; he takes the handset , listens and sucks his teeth for a bit , then says , ‘ Thank you . ’ |
| 8 | He was so desperate to work again that he begged Columbia Pictures to give him the role of Maggio in From Here to Eternity ( 1953 ) . |
| 9 | THERE are times when I 'm so desperate to get away that even a tent will do . |
| 10 | S&N argue they have kept Theakstons open and , presumably , would not have been so keen to do so if they could n't use the name and local appeal of the brand to advertise their Tyne Brewery beers . |
| 11 | Crocodiles are being preserved in some parts of the world by farming them , because that means that it is not so worthwhile to go out and kill the wild ones . |
| 12 | And so wise to go ahead and have the baby , if you want it . ’ |
| 13 | Everyone is happy to jump-to and work hard on a new factory opening or a big product launch , but they are not so eager to rush off and fulfil the everyday requests which come in from the media . |
| 14 | The women of America responded beyond his wildest dreams , but they may not have been quite so eager to help out if he had n't been blessed with such an abundance of sex appeal . |