Example sentences of "so [adv] [conj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A boxer before the war , Charles Nungesser had been smashed up so badly that by the time of Verdun he had to be lifted bodily into the cockpit and could only use one leg on the rudder controls . |
| 2 | " Nowhere " , he wrote , is there so much and at the same time so little centralization as there is in Russia . |
| 3 | It matters not that those others sought , however strongly , to persuade the patient to refuse , so long as in the end the refusal represented the patient 's independent decision . |
| 4 | If Norman Lamont keeps the job of Chancellor ( and he might do so only because of the shortlist of alternative candidates is embarrassingly short ) he may decide to delay the next cut in interest rates for long enough to convince the markets that he is serious about wanting to move sterling into narrow bands in the European exchange rate mechanism at its middle rate of Dm2.95 . |
| 5 | This in fact became so only because of the policies Wilson adopted in the way of providing arms to the other side , for which there was insufficient compensation from the rather half-hearted support given by the Soviets and by a few other countries to the Biafrans . |
| 6 | Sexism rarely manifests itself so grotesquely as in the cohabitation rule , and hostility to it among feminists is virtually unanimous . |
| 7 | It is on the face of it a very simple amendment to a quite a small and in some sense insignificant piece of legislation that is n't , erm I hope members would agree that by changing that piece of legislation to say that if you 're a trader you must display who you are and how people can get hold of you if the have a problem about products they buy from you , will not be too burdensome erm in these days of deregulation and so forth but on the other hand would help enforcements considerably and would also enable people to pursue their own remedies where they are dissatisfied with what they bought . |
| 8 | The theme and each variation are extremely brief , only eleven bars , and each finishes so quickly and changes mood so rapidly that at a first hearing one can not possibly grasp the course of events . |
| 9 | By mid-June , the projection of the opinion polls was already suggesting that the majority favouring a measure of divorce legislation was declining so rapidly that by the time of the poll , the noes would have it . |
| 10 | He moved so rapidly that by the time she had recovered enough to scream they were driving towards her flat . |
| 11 | Pakistan were 31 without loss by the close , Ramiz Raja ( 20 ) having spent little time on the field so far because of a stomach upset , and that evening Waqar Younis , asked what was the secret behind his late swing , replied , with a grin : ‘ I 'm not telling you that ! ’ |
| 12 | They they fix it up with wires and they got so far and as the tide rise , cos the ship come up and they take 'em out and take 'em to the dock , take 'em out with a heavy crane . |
| 13 | So behind and above the person of the prince , there formed again the abstract concept of ‘ the public person ’ , the punisher of the wrongs and injuries , the bearer of peace , the mighty distributor of justice and equity . |
| 14 | These aspects of political choice are still important but less so now than in the past . |
| 15 | As so often when in the company of women , Matthew felt a little superfluous . |
| 16 | But Li Lu 's daughter slept so soundly that in the end Dai Huang 's daughter dressed quickly . |
| 17 | Blood may have continued to ooze for some time after death , though less so here than from a dependent part . |
| 18 | Anna had found a place in all their hearts , but nowhere so strongly as in the heart of this young boy . |
| 19 | Here too , though not so strongly as in the Hestia , I seem to glimpse a masterpiece behind the marble . |
| 20 | She managed so well that on the Wednesday in Hartford she even got her encore , which she had rehearsed and never had the chance to perform , ‘ The Last Rose of Summer ’ . |
| 21 | Lowe was quick to learn the various practices of the law profession , and decided upon conveyancing — transferring property from one person to another by purchase , lease or deed — as that branch of the law where his deafness was less of a handicap , and did so well that in the Michaelmas Term of 1829 , he took the prescribed oaths publicly in the Temple Hall and emerged as a Barrister of the Middle Temple — a most unprecedented event which created a sensation in the profession . |
| 22 | In fact it works so well that within a few days of installing it friends were asking if they could fax me printed documents that they had always wanted to store on disk . |
| 23 | Buttons landed perfectly and came away from the jump so well that by the time her father had collected himself and his horse Artemis and Buttons were alongside them . |
| 24 | That has now changed Eastern arts no longer support the gallery now one obvious reason for that is the gallery started so well because of the enthusiasm from a number of professional people who came along and gave their advice and much of their time and such a body of people has not been called upon for a number of years now and once again a request to discuss this with Mr was refused . |
| 25 | Then reality started to move so fast that by the time he caught up it was all over and they were parked on the hard shoulder . |
| 26 | Admission to a partnership is no longer looked upon so frequently as in the past as a job for life either by the individual solicitor whose loyalty to the firm may well be strained by the availability elsewhere of fresh challenges for greater rewards or by the firm which will be reluctant to tolerate any falling off in the performance of its partners which may affect overall profit levels . |
| 27 | The services were cut so drastically that at the time no one in their right mind would have forecast that they would become so bad . |
| 28 | you know and that 's right because it 's special and I , I really think that you know the U K and perhaps we can world some countries like Sweden and so on because of the high taxation have been able to keep their |
| 29 | It was not like Karr to use his privilege so crudely and for a moment he had been concerned by his friend 's behaviour . |
| 30 | No such obligation would in my view ordinarily arise where the third party comes into possession of information which , although once confidential , has ceased to be so otherwise than through the agency of the third party . |