Example sentences of "so [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The simile was so striking and no doubt so apt , and one that was so delightfully Eliotish , that I could not take offence , though a critical word from that quarter could deal a heavy blow to one 's morale . |
| 2 | Even so , it took all his self-control not to lose his temper with Madge Grimsilk , for Therese , in the dark sapphire Rosa Ponselle gown , studded all over with flashing blue stones and with the huge peacock train spreading out behind her , was outstanding , so outstanding that the rest of the cast , pleased with their own designs but quick to recognize a ‘ star ’ outfit , burst into a little patter of applause . |
| 3 | Richard Dorment of the Daily Telegraph said : ‘ What a pity a dealer did not take him aside and tell him the work he proposed to exhibit was unexhibitable … a visual boredom so total that no amount of metaphor or allusion can give it the kiss of life ’ . |
| 4 | The silence was so total that the auditorium might have been empty . |
| 5 | Yes , but it seemed so odd that the door was standing open . |
| 6 | oh the cupboards are brilliant it 's just the fronts are so dated and the man in these reports in the house said erm , kitchen is satisfactory but it needs updating and it was only about seven years ago it was brand new , no , not seven , have we been in then , no eight , so nine or something , I know the fronts need sorting out . |
| 7 | Novell is so rich that the Unix acquisition is relatively small potatoes . |
| 8 | For a moment or two she sat watching a breeze ruffle the calm surface of the hotel pool — the bright blue water was so inviting that the moment you got out you wanted to get straight back in again . |
| 9 | From time to time there are cases where the provocation is so gross and so strong that a court imposes a very short prison sentence or even a suspended sentence for the manslaughter — typically , cases where a wife , son , or daughter kills a persistently bullying husband or father — and such cases raise the more general question of whether provocation should ever be a complete defence to homicide or to other crimes . |
| 10 | To this day , public fascination with the disaster remains so strong that a flourishinhg market has developed for Titanic memorabilia . |
| 11 | The concentration of the cast was so strong that the mood was well maintained . |
| 12 | But when the Central Policy Review Staff ( the ‘ Think Tank ’ ) had suggested in the early eighties that they mount a full-scale investigation into the practices and abuses of the professions , they discovered that the influence of the lawyers upon Number 10 was so strong that the proposal was sat upon and then returned , with a suggestion they confine themselves to teachers and social workers . |
| 13 | The resistance to devolution was so strong that the government was forced to accept that the bills should be ratified by referenda . |
| 14 | It seemed to the court that in its current form the civil components of the process of judicial review were so strong that an application which claimed the civil relief authorised by section 21K was to be regarded as a civil cause or matter . |
| 15 | and it was and you could n't get near it because the heat of the fire was so strong and the smell of the of the smoke was overpow you literally could n't get near it and everyone had to come away . |
| 16 | Yet in a country where the pull of the past is so strong and the future so tantalising , it is best when you are travelling to live exclusively in the present . |
| 17 | The anticipated sense of loss can be so strong and the wish to feel you have done everything the dying person wanted so real that the people involved will often comply no matter how outrageous the request . |
| 18 | He was so low that a wing-tip touched the ground , causing a ground loop . |
| 19 | In the case of Jupiter the temperatures are about 300 to 400 million K , though the number density is so low that no glow is visible . |
| 20 | In practice the probability of such words occurring in adjacent positions is so low that the problem is negligible . |
| 21 | Recovery will come when the country 's creditors decide that the return on money in the bank has fallen so low that the price of assets has become cheap . |
| 22 | The danger is , of course , that the price may be so low that the business fails to generate sufficient revenue to cover its operating and/or capital costs . |
| 23 | However , the number of people who return to education once they have left school or college is so low that the age of finishing full-time education is often used as a simple indicator . |
| 24 | And when the rain stops , the beavers may have to build them up again to prevent the level of the lake from falling so low that the entrance to the lodge is exposed . |
| 25 | Those belonging to Pan American were called Clippers ; they flew the Pacific and the Atlantic and , when storms were violent , they flew so low that the spray from the waves broke over the aircraft . |
| 26 | Recall that it exists where the interest rate is so low that the demand for money becomes perfectly interest-elastic . |
| 27 | ‘ ( two ) because staff levels so low and no turnover ’ … ‘ none apart from pre-licentiate programmes ’ … ‘ none at all ’ … ‘ one external course plus health and safety training ’ . |
| 28 | The Secretary of State seems to think that we should be so grateful that the Government have promised that the poll tax will go that we should not look too closely at what will replace it . |
| 29 | ‘ In the administration of government in this country the functions which are given to ministers ( and constitutionally properly given to ministers because they are constitutionally responsible ) are functions so multifarious that no minister could ever personally attend to them . |
| 30 | As many as one in five of the population attends an accident and emergency unit every year , yet staff shortages are so acute that a quarter of the 239 units in England and Wales do not have a trained consultant in charge . |