Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [verb] so " in BNC.

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1 The proliferation of this literature has so simplified going into our wilderness areas that readers are literally taken by the hand .
2 They 'll say well why did this cheque do so and so and why did this do so and so and like he said well when you 're talking about forty eight pound an hour you do n't want me poking round there trying to sort out the tax man
3 This screening proved so uncomfortable for the group 's largest component , the Nahdlatul Ulama ( NU ) that , in 1984 , it pulled out of competitive politics altogether .
4 Stifling leadership qualities is not the principle on which this industry became so profitable .
5 This term meant so many different things to different people that the results were almost impossible to classify .
6 Although this review has so far concentrated on those findings which reveal most clearly opposite visual hemifield superiorities for verbal and non-verbal ( especially visuo-spatial ) stimuli it is impossible for one familiar with work in this field not to be struck by the lability of the laterality effects reported ( Cohen , 1982 ) .
7 This chapter has so far focused mainly upon south Korea and on the American-Soviet deliberations upon producing a unified administration .
8 The discussion in this chapter has so far not explicitly recognized the changes that have been taking place and will continue to take place in manufacturing methods .
9 The threads of this chapter have so far been a little diffuse .
10 And anyhow , when this interview meant so very much to Cara , surely it would n't hurt her to hang on in Mariánské Láznë for a week ?
11 This interview means so much to her , ’ she explained in a hurry .
12 I , I do n't often agree with Jim about anything , but I really do agree with him about this , that there has to be some clear guidelines , I think , as to how these are fixed , they are not going be have the potential of being very unfair to people because people operate in different ways in different areas and I would suggest that it would be a good idea if this community were to ask for erm guidelines to be drafted for this committee to agree so that there is a more even fair , laid down procedure for dealing with the cases coming before the panel .
13 We were not gracious yesterday — especially as this child came so far to find us .
14 Why did this tactic work so successfully ?
15 This work seems so much more relevant to the training of doctors in a developing country than theoretical exercises in high-technology medicine still promoted in the undergraduate syllabus of many a traditional school .
16 But in the ensuing duet for Balstrode and Grimes , this motif gets so entangled with Grimes 's personal strife and obstinate nature that by the time the " Storm " interlude itself begins ( with a variant of the fugue subject ) we may genuinely wonder whether the hurricane is not as much an inward as an outward affair .
17 But this dream seemed so real , so terribly natural .
18 Most experiments of this type have so far concentrated on investigating timber buildings with posts set in postholes , because these are usually the most difficult structures to interpret during excavation .
19 Over the subsequent decade this process intensified so much in both numbers of people and geographical scale that an inverse relationship between urban size and population change rate was generally evident and many of the more remote areas in the west and north of Britain experienced a switch into growth after decades of depopulation ( Champion , 1981a ; Jones et al. , 1986 ; Champion , Green , Owen , Ellin and Coombes , 1987 ) .
20 It is unfortunate that when a problem of this sort gets so much publicity it can become the bandwagon on which those who desperately want attention jump .
21 There is no reason to suppose , however , that unemployment among this group creates so few problems that we can ignore it .
22 He retorted : ‘ He 's entitled to his opinion , but I do n't share it and It 's too premature to talk about anyone being certainties , or anyone being out of the running , especially with this group developing so closely . ’
23 ‘ I find it surprising , ’ says Bingham , ‘ that this meeting made so little impression on Barnes …
24 Erm again , this is why er er jogging at th at this point became so er popular if you remember everyb er a little while , few years ago everybody was rushing out jogging and there are still people who are doing it .
25 This overlap happens so frequently that you must be prepared to live with it .
26 But those who received this education did so in the German language , and those who made no progress in German could proceed no further than elementary school .
27 You 're not sure why this criticism comes so vigorously your way .
28 The injustice of this request seemed so intolerable that I could n't speak .
29 Maria thought the evening went well and could only hope those to whom this launch meant so much were equally pleased with the way she acquitted herself .
30 I did n't think this game took so long
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