Example sentences of "so [adv] [verb] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No ruler of a large State , however , could afford the luxury of uncritical adherence to an ideology , even one so loosely defined as that of enlightened government . |
| 2 | But the many complex descriptions of the real social practice of literate and oral modes that are now becoming available suggest that literacy and orality are not so vastly differentiated as these writers claim . |
| 3 | Clever , witty and articulate , he came from the intellectual elite which McCarthy so effectively attacked as responsible for many of America 's problems . |
| 4 | In the large public company it is now accepted as part of conventional wisdom that the shareholding is so widely dispersed that each shareholder does not own a significant enough proportion of the company to perform any of the functions of monitoring and supervising the directors that the legal model casts upon him . |
| 5 | Saudi Arabia and other members also disagreed over the interpretation of the ‘ marker ’ crude price set at the previous year 's OPEC conference in Bah , with a resolution so widely phrased that each member could do whatever it chose . |
| 6 | HISTORICAL monuments are so badly signposted that many visitors are unaware of their existence , the Scottish Tourist Board 's chief executive , Tom Band , told a tourism conference yesterday , writes Alison Daniels . |
| 7 | It has considerable agility , and its powers of dry staccato have been so much exploited that this form of musical humour has quite lost its savour nowadays . |
| 8 | He does not so much sit as squat upon the rug , kneeled over the low table as though in prayer . |
| 9 | Q2 's designer , Mike Pocock , was n't so much chosen as self-appointed through a combination of admiration for Mary 's enthusiasm and a clear understanding of what the owner wanter Q2 to be . |
| 10 | From all these activities women were not so much excluded as absent by definition . |
| 11 | I know of one company where everyone became so highly motivated that most of them left , because they now found frustrating a pace which they had found acceptable before . |
| 12 | C1 was to be a two-year course for 16-plus school-leavers with suitable qualifications , leading to a certificate or diploma comparable in status to an OND , while C2 would normally be of two years ' duration and would be for students not so highly qualified or well-motivated as those taking C1 courses . |
| 13 | Charles II took a personal interest it , matters relating to mining and it is reported that he united the old Mines Royal and the Soc. of Mineral & Battery Works which had for so long run as separate enterprises . |
| 14 | The pale mask of her face fended him off , incredulous , but the bright creature within , so long coffined and mute , knew that she had heard aright . |
| 15 | Most babies distinguish reliably between their parents and others during the first six months of life , and so already know that human beings vary . |
| 16 | It does n't really want to and I find it difficult to believe and I 'm not sure I want to because I feel so fucking drained and sore , but the thing 's actually responding , fattening and firming and rising in her kneading , soap-slick hands . |
| 17 | No wonder male sexual desire is so desperately tormented and full of conflict . |
| 18 | Again , I am amazed that I accomplished the job so quickly seeing that most of the work was done at weekends . |
| 19 | The lower slabs are so low angled that few of the routes are more than Diff to V. Diff . |
| 20 | Research on the development of various types of psychiatric disorder has so far suggested that close relationships tend to play the most crucial role in increasing or decreasing vulnerability . |
| 21 | The majority of these were in Peru where 1,130 had so far died and 150,929 people were infected . |
| 22 | The results obtained so far suggest that shape-specific long-chain water polymers could be the something which produces the physiological and pharmacological effects which homoeopathic potencies exert on living systems . |
| 23 | The measurements so far suggest that this will be far too ambitious . |
| 24 | The results so far suggest that those informants who described themselves as infrequent and inexperienced readers of SF would not regard this as SF at all ; whereas those informants who did read SF would characterise it as such . |
| 25 | Our discussion so far implies that many animals are lay physicists , that they have implicit knowledge of real-world properties ( such as the optics of 3-D objects viewed in air or water ) that can be explicitly described by professional physicists . |
| 26 | Although one would dearly like more supportive evidence , what we have so far indicates that isolated experiences rarely if ever leave permanent traces — however traumatic and however early they may be . |
| 27 | In fact , experience so far suggests that MDC 's approach to urban regeneration has been less cavalier than LDDC 's , reflecting its concern to minimise the social costs of development to its residents and to avoid projects likely to prejudice other areas of the city . |
| 28 | Prestel Education started its own software service in the Autumn term of 1985 and the feedback so far suggests that this is a service which schools find most welcome . |
| 29 | The heaviest fighting of the conflict so far ensued as Serbian nationalists intensified efforts to consolidate their positions before the peace conference began on Sept. 7 . |
| 30 | He was always so quick witted and courageous was John that I always thought he would have made a good secret agent — a James Bond kind of figure . |