Example sentences of "so [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Men were appalled by the sudden onset , which allowed no time for the deathbed repentance so dear to the hearts of pious Victorians . |
| 2 | He was so used to the extremes of lust and commerce , of immediate gratification and protracted commercial dealing that the ground between had been long forgotten . |
| 3 | If the agricultural seats are added to the middle-class strongholds , it can be seen why Conservatism was so strong between the wars , for the party could count well over 200 seats as unshakably safe and on 300 as reliable enough to be won except in a very bad year . |
| 4 | That they have figured so low in the rankings indicates that the citation measures do reflect assessments of the worth of the theses themselves , rather than the information contained in those theses which might have appeared in published form . |
| 5 | ‘ We are also so grateful to the cyclists who raised sponsorship for us , and to BT for their support . ’ |
| 6 | And they were so contemptuous of the Nazis and their cohorts they could not imagine that they themselves featured in the minds and machinations of such louts . |
| 7 | Not since childhood had he been so alive to the changes of texture in the air , the shifts of mood in the sky , the beat of the blood in his own body . |
| 8 | What was so awful about the letters ? |
| 9 | The case of the Tari Furora paralleled that of the Melanesians in ‘ Marie Lloyd ’ , but it is to his ideal City , and his actual urban Western civilization that Eliot relates this Papuan discovery : ‘ … if we are so helpless in the hands of our ‘ civilization ’ that we admit our inability to prevent it from ruining Papuans , what hope have we of saving ourselves ? ’ |
| 10 | At times I become so obsessive about the dangers that I find myself making lists of what could go wrong . |
| 11 | The nature of excuses in crime and of equity in contract is , however , so particularistic and so dependent upon the facts of the case that it strains credulity to imagine someone seeking in advance to bring his case under such categories . |
| 12 | The thread is spooled on an enormous reeling-machine ( nituchha ) before being woven on a primitive loom into mens ' shirts and trousers , household linen and curtains ( pologa ) to protect the sleeper from the mosquitoes that are so prevalent in the marshes of the western plains . |
| 13 | They taste so different to the figs we get . |
| 14 | It was so different to the classrooms at school . |
| 15 | Their anatomy is so specialised and so different from the urodeles that they are classified in an order of their own , the caecilians . |
| 16 | She looked at the polished coppery band , so different from the collars Samson forged along with fetters and thumbscrews for the slave trade . |
| 17 | He is so different from the others , from Terry and Havvie ; he loves me truly for myself , which is the best thing of all , not because I am Papa 's rich daughter , the King 's friend . |
| 18 | The conditions of international science are so different from the days of Rutherford , and Appleton with their sealing wax and shoe strings . |
| 19 | It was so different from the rooms Xanthe and her father had taken in a former hôtel particulier of a family of the ancien régime , round a courtyard off the Rue St Honoré , with ormolu chests of drawers , lace-trimmed bolsters and a chiming clock on the writing desk in the small , light sitting room where stood striped chintz chairs with gilded lyre backs and a matching silk-covered settee . |
| 20 | In one of those little quirks so popular with the writers of Hollywood biopics , it is recorded that " the rate at which the apparatus was capable of working was discovered accidentally , in consequence of the breaking of a spring " . |
| 21 | ‘ Last year saw the first Pro-am pairs competition which proved so popular with the riders . |
| 22 | ‘ You can definitely understand why he 's so popular with the ladies , ’ comments fellow Comedy Store comedian and Whose Line regular Josie Laurence . |
| 23 | When de Gaulle was warned that the recall of a soldier who was so popular with the pieds noirs might spark disturbances in Algeria , his reply was adamant : " If this decision provokes some local unrest , well we shall see . |
| 24 | One top pop agent reveals : ‘ With a single so high in the charts Felix should be earning up to £2,000 a night in clubs . |
| 25 | I 'm not so bothered about the windows so much cos if they break someone 's bound to hear them smash . |
| 26 | Ironically , a Labour government would not have to be so generous as the Tories . |
| 27 | This Government is rarely so generous with the taxpayers ' money , espe cially to people who seek out an in vestment opportunity which does n't involve paying UK tax . |
| 28 | He mumbled in a vague , harassed way , ‘ She 's got so fond of the kids . |
| 29 | Perhaps it is this which is so charming in the actions and behaviour of the infants of all species : the freshness and the tentativeness with which the life within explores its new mental and physical apparatus . |
| 30 | " You never told me it was so social on the boats , " she said . |