Example sentences of "so [adv] [verb] [conj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was so skilfully effected that Giles and Cavell were metres away before Maria realised what was happening . |
| 2 | The Guardian 's cartoonist showed one health official saying to another : ‘ These regional days of action are so badly organized that Len Murray has to ring up Norman Fowler to ask where they are being held . ’ |
| 3 | In Spain , what Henry Kamen has called the ‘ series of autos de fe which burnt out Protestantism ’ began at Valladolid in May 1559 , while in France , at exactly the same time , persecution of the Calvinists so much increased that Calvin 's greatest follower , Theodore Beza , began to question Calvin 's insistence on non-resistance to authority . |
| 4 | Her mother handed her a glass of white wine , so generously filled that Kate was obliged to take a long sip before it was safe to put it down on the small table by the side of the chair . |
| 5 | Despite the all the cutbacks that so clearly indicate that IBM Corp now acknowledges that the mainframe can not remain a dominant part of its business for much longer , the company does have new models up its sleeve for early next year — February is thought likely , our US associate Technology News of America hears . |
| 6 | She was so far gone that Joey had to help her walk across the field to where he had parked . |
| 7 | August Weismann was utterly opposed to Lamarckism and Weismann 's opinions so far prevailed that A. D. Darbishire in his authoritative Breeding and the Mendelian Discovery ( London , 1911 ) put the matter thus . |
| 8 | No wins so far mean that Amthaal slips in the race on 7st 12lb and he showed plenty of promise at Chester last week — racing for the first time in five months . |
| 9 | So far fears that West Germany will be too distracted by the rebuilding of East Germany to continue the building of the European Community have been exaggerated . |
| 10 | Certainly if they are so far changed as Gillespie suggests , I do n't have a problem with it . |
| 11 | Hedgerows existed in Saxon times and by the time Domesday was commissioned in 1086 the boundaries of parishes were so firmly fixed that William 's Norman officials were able to calculate within close limits , the exact area of thousands of settlements and their capacity to contribute to the royal exchequer ! |
| 12 | It becomes clear , too — especially when studying youth subcultures since rock 'n' roll — that the spheres of work and leisure are not always so closely intertwined as Adorno suggests , the latter simply duplicating the reified forms of consciousness which may be characteristic of the former . |
| 13 | It was so beautifully cut that Joanna gasped in admiration . |
| 14 | Not all coffins were so beautifully made as Mrs Bell 's . |
| 15 | I attempted desperately to convince myself that what I was experiencing was just a particularly cruel and hateful dream concocted by some part of my mind determined to exact due penalty from my conscience for my having behaved with such despicable lack of grace during the holidays … but failed utterly ; my sub-conscious ' stock of nightmare-paradigms includes nothing so banally twisted as Gav . |