Example sentences of "so [adv] [pron] [is] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | UNEMPLOYED Sandra Davies wants a job so badly she is tramping the streets at dawn pushing applications through letter-boxes . |
| 2 | Such brief ‘ thumb-nail ’ sketches do give some indication of the essence of sociology , but ultimately it is both necessary and perhaps more fruitful to emphasise that the most important and distinctive feature of sociology is not so much what is studied but how it is studied , i.e. it is important to indicate what is the particular perspective of sociology , its distinct way of looking at the individual and society . |
| 3 | What influences the young child is not so much what is said or meant by the adult 's question . |
| 4 | Budgie likes them so much he 's slipped Siouxsie 's leash and is playing drums , Sarah Lee ( ex-Gang of Four ) is on bass , with a fiddler and cellist augmenting the intricate acoustic melodies . |
| 5 | so obviously she 's assuming that she 's talking to Elvis , but er , she ca n't prove it |
| 6 | Dot said , ‘ In the country , where we just been , there 's this lady where we stayed what has n't eaten a banana so long she 's forgotten the taste , and what 's growing these melons in her garden . |
| 7 | Unlike vector graphics , the image is a single layer , so once something is painted , it becomes part of the whole picture . |
| 8 | So hopefully he 's going to burst West Ham 's pretty bubbles ? |
| 9 | When a new factory starts it is usually a part of a chain of industries and so usually it is placed near others in the chain . |
| 10 | So far he 's collected around five hundred balls from his garden . |
| 11 | So far he 's concluded that the typical victims are intelligent and creative , but have not achieved much in their lives , are usually stuck in dead-end jobs or unemployed . |
| 12 | ‘ So far he 's responded well ? ’ he asked . |
| 13 | He says that so far it 's cost about £25,000 . |
| 14 | So far it 's inspired a five hundred signature petition , infuriated a councillor , and there 's still no solution in sight . |
| 15 | So far it 's collected some 40 exhibitors and they 're the kind of brand names show managers love : DEC , HP , Sun , SCO , USL , UI , Unisys , NCR , Compaq , Univel and MIPS/Silicon Graphics . |
| 16 | The Boat , Caravan and Leisure show is on at the National Exhibition Centre this week and so far it 's attracted record crowds . |
| 17 | Control Data Corp is the latest struggling hardware manufacturer to sign up as a reseller for IBM 's RS/6000 — but so far it is restricting the agreement to Denmark , Norway and Sweden . |
| 18 | So far it is dominated by Far East suppliers , including Sanken , Panasonic and TDK . |
| 19 | Each test-tube contains the machine tools and the raw material , but so far it is sitting idle , doing nothing because it lacks a blueprint to work from . |
| 20 | So now what 's happening is we 're before we 're doing an album we sit down and we pick out a lot of songs we decide right you know we need songs with good story books so the video is near enough planned with the recording of the song and it it 's a lot easier for us and a lot more enjoyable enough a lot more enjoyable . |
| 21 | So now it 's touring time and in September I 'll be writing , then in October it 's back touring again . |
| 22 | So now he 's trying the same way here . |
| 23 | So now he 's gon na have the twelve minibus erm what do you call him ? |
| 24 | So now he 's giving up busking in Gloucester . |
| 25 | So now he is clubbed to death instead , much to the surprise of the audience . |
| 26 | So now he is gone , who will pick up the mantle ? |
| 27 | Just as the Spirit was active in breathing life into the first man ( Gen 2:7 ) , so here he is associated with the birth of the last Adam . |
| 28 | He 'd come round the night before after playing pool , and they 'd stayed up late , so today she is shattered . |
| 29 | Set up under a special government programme in 1989 with funding for three years , it has done so well it is to carry on in a slimmed down form under a new name Tees Valley Conference and Visitor Bureau under the control of the Northumbria Tourist Board . |
| 30 | You ca n't escape the noise in these thin little flats , so maybe he 's lying in bed , staring in the dark , listening to the personal stereo I told him fell off a lorry last Christmas , letting reggae drown the sound of grown-ups talking . |