Example sentences of "the [adj] [verb] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barthes 's approach to S/Z has the merit of respecting the individual play of a given text while at the same time relying on the general concept of the scriptible and the lisible to do so . |
| 2 | Just a few paragraphs in and we are plunged into the fog and grime of the capital : in 1817 the American Ambassador was enveloped in a midday fog in Bond Street so thick that he felt tempted to ask how the English became so great with so little daylight . |
| 3 | At the end of my reading , the lecturer asked the newcomer his name , and I heard his voice for the first time — a soft , warm American accent , with the rich , furry tone the English find so attractive . |
| 4 | The English do so love gardens ! |
| 5 | The US ambassador , who had marvelled at the readiness of the British to hazard so much in company with France ( a nation which they were in the habit of disparaging ) , now saw that this had been no more than a passing flirtation . |
| 6 | Yeah , that 's even better , but then we 're on to the forty foots so that 's even better . |
| 7 | This is particularly welcome : the 911 had so much weight concentrated over its tail that it was prone to locking front wheels in the wet . |
| 8 | ( N.C. , 1979 ) where it was said that persons charged with serious disciplinary offences had a right to call any evidence which was likely to assist in establishing vital facts in issue , that the chairman had a discretion to refuse to call witnesses to prevent the accused calling so many witnesses as to make the system unworkable but that fairness demanded that there be a right to cross-examine witnesses . |
| 9 | Particles containing the b quark ( bottom particles ) are the heaviest found so far , some weighing in at around 10 times the mass of the proton . |
| 10 | The three found so much to talk about that they did not think of tea till nearly five o'clock . |
| 11 | Pre-publication , it was announced in both hard and paperback format , the latter priced so that the book could be used as a course book . |
| 12 | I gathered from the locals here that Leeds have been given something around the 2,500 mark so I expect they will go quite quickly . |
| 13 | I gathered from the locals here that Leeds have been given something around the 2,500 mark so I expect they will go quite quickly . |
| 14 | He also has to be a front runner for the captaincy of Scotland and indeed , if so chosen , would become only the eighth to do so from the fullback position , following W.D . |
| 15 | Researcher : Why is the percentage of Afro-Caribbean pupils staying on in the sixth form so low ? |
| 16 | Some have argued that the lands of the Iceni suffered so badly from this act of destruction that the tribe remained economically backward . |
| 17 | On Friday half the field of 82 beat par there ; on Saturday , post-cut , 35 of the 63 did so . |
| 18 | In that campaign , which he ended with a score of 221 , he also rode the fastest 100 by a jump jockey , smashed Jonjo O'Neill 's record seasonal total of 149 , and not only became the first man to ride 200 winners over jumps , but the first to do so under either code since Sir Gordon Richards did so on the Flat in 1952 . |
| 19 | Although Balcon was not the first to make films in Germany , he was the first to do so on a regular basis . |
| 20 | It would not be the first to do so , though it would be the biggest . |
| 21 | Although they were not the first to do so , they became the longest running and , presumably , most successful pin manufacturers in the Painswick area . |
| 22 | Among the first to do so for this purpose was Adelard of Bath ( fl 1116–42 ) . |
| 23 | The ancient Greeks certainly aged their trees by counting rings and were probably not the first to do so . |
| 24 | But with seven wins from their last eight , the Chargers look set to reach the play-offs for the first time since 1982 — the first to do so after such a poor start . |
| 25 | A number of authorities in Britain have attempted to devise means of sharing decision-making with neighbourhood groups , Islington and Walsall Councils being among the first to do so . |
| 26 | He had carried his bat through the innings , the first to do so for England at Lord 's , thus winning another campaign medal of note . |
| 27 | Louis Pasteur had observed it in 1877 , but even he was not the first to do so . |
| 28 | The first to do so was the Queen of Italy . |
| 29 | ‘ But as for forgetting about this morning 's little episode … personally , I suspect that you 'll be the first to do so . ’ |
| 30 | On Oct. 2 the US aircraft carrier Independence entered the Gulf , the first to do so for 16 years , in a move placing its aircraft within range of Kuwait and Iraq without refuelling . |