Example sentences of "so [adv] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such signs of relative forgiveness on the part of the leaders he had persecuted so relentlessly in the past , particularly Deng Xiaoping , offer perhaps the clearest insight into Chen 's career : he had never been a political force in his own right but merely a faithful interpreter and executor of Mao 's will . |
| 2 | It 's like listening to a band suffering from perpetual memory loss , they live so relentlessly in the present . |
| 3 | Characters have to be created pictorially because there is no space to do so verbally in the text . |
| 4 | This dilemma was starkly perceived in June 1950 and answered in a way directly contrary to that anticipated so widely in the spring of 1948 . |
| 5 | Now , having strutted their stuff so successfully in the business arena , the Taiwanese want to show their arch-rivals — Japan and South Korea — that they had also better watch out when it comes to rugby and September 's Asian Rugby Football Tournament in Seoul . |
| 6 | The plan to construct a political union in Europe on the model of the German Federal Republic betrays just this kind of defective level of political maturity from which Germany has suffered so badly in the past . |
| 7 | A bitter debate in the Executive of the National Union on 8 February 1917 resulted in the setting up of a special sub-committee to consider the Bill ; a suggestion that MPs should be ineligible for the sub-committee because they had let down the party so badly in the Speaker 's Conference was only narrowly lost . |
| 8 | No wonder women are treated so badly in the world when even an organisation such as Amnesty judges them in terms of their lives only meaning something if they can ‘ belong ’ to a man . |
| 9 | I assume that was why I was running so badly in the track season . |
| 10 | I ca n't imagine he has ever had to search for his mother , or had narcolepsy , or become a hustler , yet he does all three so brilliantly in the film it breaks your heart . |
| 11 | NOBODY is sure of the distance to Betelgeuse , the red giant star that shines so brilliantly in the constellation of Orion . |
| 12 | I wished I could help him then ; he looked so down in the mouth hunched up by the stove . |
| 13 | He had never seen Karr looking so down in the mouth . |
| 14 | ‘ Why so down in the mouth ? ’ asked her host , returning with a tea-tray . |
| 15 | That erm , made me laugh because he said to his secretary erm you know , I I honestly do n't think your time is she is so down in the mouth . |
| 16 | ‘ Hardly ever has a Goebbels article stood so much in the public eye as this one , ’ added the report , ‘ but his articles have probably never been so criticized . |
| 17 | But then , damn it , was he so obviously in the wrong ? |
| 18 | She was so small , and Luke so long in the leg , he looked like some father riding a seaside donkey to amuse his children . |
| 19 | The drift to a cappella solutions might also be interpreted as a reaction to the individualism and subjectivism of the 1960s , both of which have lingered so long in the performance of medieval and ( some ) Renaissance music . |
| 20 | Was it because I was out of reach of the prying eyes of the men in my family and their questions about my comings and goings , and far from my mother 's interrogations about why I slept on my stomach , or why I took so long in the bathroom ? |
| 21 | The feel of the sun on our skins again was wonderful and even with our eyes covered the brightness of the sunlight was dazzling after so long in the gloom . |
| 22 | Sometimes , of course , all that had arisen was a lump of anxiety in her throat at being interrupted for so long in the middle of work which required a high degree of concentration and often had to be done to a deadline . |
| 23 | In the nervous systems of arthropods , for example — including insects and crustacea — the head ganglion — the brain — may be important , but is so only in the sense of King John amongst the barons ; there are many other ganglia distributed throughout the arthropod body , each with a considerable degree of autonomy . |
| 24 | But such things fly so flagrantly in the face of known history , so flagrantly in the face of human experience , so flagrantly in the face of simple probability , that they impose an inordinate strain upon credulity . |
| 25 | But such things fly so flagrantly in the face of known history , so flagrantly in the face of human experience , so flagrantly in the face of simple probability , that they impose an inordinate strain upon credulity . |
| 26 | But such things fly so flagrantly in the face of known history , so flagrantly in the face of human experience , so flagrantly in the face of simple probability , that they impose an inordinate strain upon credulity . |
| 27 | He singled out for special criticism two specific objectives which had figured so prominently in the application of Keynesian ideas : ( a ) the notion that the proper focus of attention for monetary policy was the attainment of targets for the rate of interest as opposed to targets for the supply of money ; ( b ) that demand management policies could be adjusted in such a way as to achieve a target combination of inflation and unemployment which was sustainable indefinitely . |
| 28 | But I had done so not in the belief that indefinite British occupation of the Zone was practicable but in protest against a treaty which purported to give Britain rights of reoccupation and a policy which proclaimed that Cyprus , Jordan and Kenya afforded adequate geographical alternatives . |
| 29 | What then is this second economy which has grown so massively in the shadow of one that the state has planned and controlled for decades ? |
| 30 | That it was done so artlessly in the past , of course , does not mean that ideas of what is right and wrong should not be dealt with in stories and novels for young people . |