Example sentences of "so [adv] [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These snakes have evolved the ability to rear up and squeeze their poison glands so forcibly that the venom inside them is propelled towards their enemy as a jet or spray of droplets . |
| 2 | She was saying so forcibly when the telephone interrupted her . |
| 3 | For a bet , he had once broken into the flat where a certain Vice-Questore was entertaining a lady friend and removed the couple 's clothes so stealthily that the Vice-Questore thought something supernatural must have occurred and came over all religious for a while . |
| 4 | The fact that this happens so widely and the fact that in relation to the volume and importance of the work they have to do , curriculum centres are still understaffed and under-funded indicates that there still exists a rather strange ordering of educational priorities . |
| 5 | Aye , by varying the nature of the stimuli so contradictorily , unpredictably , and totally — so confusingly that the mind could not concentrate upon one species of ordeal , but was assaulted instead by a menagerie of martyrdoms , a zoo of torments . |
| 6 | They did so mostly because the transactions depended on the new debt burden being temporary while bits of a firm were sold , but the burden turned out to be lasting . |
| 7 | His immediate concern is to get them to help themselves but not to do it so successfully that the state will throw in its hand altogether . |
| 8 | They almost certainly meet the needs of individual clients , but , like primary nursing , they may also fulfil the needs of the professionals concerned so successfully that the professionals , rather than the recipients of care , are really the most important clients of the system . |
| 9 | Few of these , from the vantage point of 1990 , flourished as corporations so successfully as the BBC , which gained a reputation as one of the great creations of social and cultural policy in the twentieth century . |
| 10 | Thomas suddenly started to shake so badly that the ice in his glass chattered . |
| 11 | Her health began to suffer , which was understandable , and I think at one time she deteriorated so badly that the doctors rather washed their hands of her . |
| 12 | The shock of those soft words made her jump so badly that the room swayed , and with a gasp she felt the jade fly from her hand . |
| 13 | If the trial goes so badly that the plaintiff wants to take the money out during it he must , as was decided in Gaskins v British Aluminium Co Ltd [ 1976 ] QB 524 , make an application to do so , and he must have the defendant 's consent even to make the application . |
| 14 | Inn many cases this is what they get , However this is not consolation to the user who , having been misinformed by an out of date roadside timetable , spends , say , fifteen minutes at a windswept bus stop , in pouring rain , awaiting a bus that is less than clean , being driven so badly that the ride is uncomfortable by a brusque and unhelpful driver . ’ |
| 15 | The snow was driving down so thickly that the windscreen-wiper could n't keep the glass free of it . |
| 16 | He is also superbly crafty in the book in inserting , so gently that the recipient would n't even notice , the odd barb . |
| 17 | By the third day they were quarrelling openly and at times so fiercely that the knights standing around went for their swords . |
| 18 | She 'd cried then , because she had loved the doll so much and the inspector had tried to take it from her . |
| 19 | Express mention of the beneficial owner covenants will imply on the part of the assignor that the terms of the lease with regard to maintenance , decoration and repair have been complied with ; this may not be so especially if the husband has been absent from the property for some time ( see generally Butler v Mountview Estates [ 1951 ] 2 KB 563 ) . |
| 20 | So obviously when the war finished there was tremendous demand . |
| 21 | It ca n't go on for ever because characters such as the Fat Slags ( right ) can only go on so long before the joke starts to wear thin . |
| 22 | When on 5 September the Lords Lieutenant of the four most northerly counties were ordered to make their respective militias ready for immediate service , it emerged that neither Northumberland nor Durham had been reimbursed by central government for the money they had previously spent in keeping the force mustered , while the authorities in Cumberland admitted candidly : ‘ T is so long since the militia was raised that we are apprehensive the arms are either lost or in bad order . ’ |
| 23 | They also extend the traditions of the area — the working over of old dumps by ‘ dressers ’ has taken place since ancient times and will , no doubt , continue to do so long after the mines close down . |
| 24 | Now , not so long after the rebels won , their war has been ignominiously recast in official Arab circles as a training school for religious terrorists . |
| 25 | So long as the adventurers keep out of the circle , all well and good . |
| 26 | The effect of s7(2) and ( 3 ) is that the other implied terms can not be excluded or restricted at all where the buyer deals as a consumer ; they can be excluded outside of consumer supply transactions so long as the supplier can show that such an exclusion is fair and reasonable . |
| 27 | But so long as the company 's objective is maximum profits , a concern with the welfare of third parties is necessarily an instrumental one : it is a means of protecting profitability in the long term . |
| 28 | ‘ Theoretically , yes , but that 's unlikely to happen so long as the company is successful and the shareholders approve of the way it 's run . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ So long as the things being moved and shaken show no ripples … |
| 30 | So long as the army is loyal , the regime will survive . |