Example sentences of "so [adv] [verb] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The use of the word ‘ lazy ’ here does not imply that those animals are indolent or inefficient but rather that their specialisation is so finely tuned and successful that they are able to spend a great deal of their daily lives sitting , gazing and sleeping . |
| 32 | Her reading of the passions of men and women in the past so often revealed that ecstatic love ended in tragedy . |
| 33 | By all means let advertisers bring in history to help to sell their wares , but why is it that they so often mangle and corrupt it in the process ? |
| 34 | This is the real meaning of the famous " Greek serenity " , so often misrepresented as some kind of untroubled cheerfulness . |
| 35 | The probable reason that indexed sequential files are so often used when direct files would perform better is the ready availability of software . |
| 36 | The truth is that they 're so often used as fast turnover test beds for review equipment , and new fishkeeping ideas , that they are probably less interesting than the majority of our readers ' tanks . |
| 37 | They had also made their social entrance at a time when television — so often blamed as another demoralising force — was only a minority pursuit in Britain , with no more than two million viewing licences in 1953 ; and when the commercial TV channel , which was most commonly alleged to be lowering standards , had not even been created . |
| 38 | We hope to continue in this tradition , so please note that personal news about members ' activities is always likely to be of interest . |
| 39 | Also you have to be so narrowly motivated and self-contained if you 're going to succeed … |
| 40 | Not since Mavis mourned the passing of Harriet the budgie has a death been so dramatically evoked as that in which Ted finally succumbed to rigor mortis . |
| 41 | The introduction in January ninety three of six European directives has given us a unique opportunity to raise the profile of the G M B both in places where we have membership and elsewhere , when the message gets across how the G M B reps are so well trained and able to represent members on all health and safety issues . |
| 42 | As a result , our eyesight is so well developed that few animals possess comparable vision , and we are justified in considering it our supersense . |
| 43 | The standards of CNAA courses were therefore so well established that major shifts in , or the removal of , the validation tradition through peer review might imperil what had been achieved . |
| 44 | After 1720 the form had become so well established that new turnpikes were set up under the clauses of a general public act , rather than by individual private acts . |
| 45 | Once the product hits the real world it has to cope with users who are not so well behaved or gentle — hence the totally new crop of errors . |
| 46 | Becoming officially pregnant so late means that many girls do not attend antenatal classes or clinic appointments , they carry on smoking and drinking , and probably eating food that is not particularly healthy . |
| 47 | Perhaps such cases do not occur with the frequency one may so readily believe or that such cases do not get reported in the national press with the frequency that one might have expected ; or alternatively , perhaps the police are much more successful in capturing the so-called sex maniacs than we sometimes are led to imagine . |
| 48 | The biggest irony of all is that probably no single factor proved more damaging than the contribution of the man who we were told was so universally respected and popular that , if he had been Labour leader instead of Neil Kinnock , Labour 's lead in the polls would have been 49 to 33 . |
| 49 | It was the most wonderful sight I have ever seen , wild and barbaric to the last degree and the whole thing so wonderfully staged and orderly . |
| 50 | Large molecules , dimers and clusters have large moments of inertia , and consequently their rotational energy levels are so closely spaced that high-resolution spectroscopy is defeated . |
| 51 | But this turnover is so extraordinarily slow that each grain could only have been exposed during the last 4600 Ma for a total time much less than a million years thus requiring considerably higher cosmic-ray intensities in the past , which though possible is thought by several scientists to be unlikely . |
| 52 | Er well er I think , I do n't think they are so politically activated and this is where you have n't got your forthcoming erm members on committees . |
| 53 | Sir , I am not to be caught by a bait so poorly covered as this ! |
| 54 | Most schools are in such poor physical condition and are so poorly equipped that this is unlikely to be a viable option . |