Example sentences of "so [adj] and [art] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ ( 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | The noise was so loud and the light so bright that he sat still as a stone . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I could fancy her if she was n't so old and a teacher . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | People were so kind and friendly , the atmosphere was so different and the weather , well , that was unreal . |
| 14 | In no other religion are the stakes so high and the choice so momentous . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | So six and a half for that one . |
| 19 | The action is so smooth and the water displacement so little , hardly any evidence of a disturbed surface , even in calm conditions , remains . |
| 20 | And she said well I 'm very sorry she said but your adjudicator 's so rude and the way he described himself , he should |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Er about this strike and er but time went on and it became obvious that er nobody were going to win only the boss like this boss , course he was he was scratching through , and so they called the strike off and every person who worked at er every firm had a meeting and they all decided to take so many and every firm took so many of the workers and so nobody was ever unemployed as a consequence of the strike which was very very good . |
| 24 | The astonishment is that , in the face of these adverse odds , the fossils that have been collected are so numerous and the record they provide so detailed and coherent . |
| 25 | The timing of the RPF 's creation was so unpropitious and the concept of a Gaullist " party " so problematic even to de Gaulle that one must assume that he felt that he had no real choice . |
| 26 | ‘ What depresses me about the whole position is that skills are so important and the lack of them now is undermining our whole competitive position . |
| 27 | The language of the letter itself made her shiver — the ‘ we hereby , being the parents of one Oreste Romagnoli ’ , seemed so important and the ending , though it only gave the date of the document and names of the witnesses , truly portentous . |
| 28 | Crying apart , there are no songs of the calibre of Pretty Woman but that big dramatic voice is so overwhelming and the production so superb , that it 's a worthwhile record by any standards . |
| 29 | Dorothea shook her head , angry with herself , for everyone expected her , rushed to help her , everyone , truly , was so kind and the Rector relied upon her industry . |
| 30 | Perhaps it was the culmination of the day , the weather so miserable and the wetness permeating to clog his clothes tightly to his skin , making movement uncomfortable and abrasive . |