Example sentences of "so [adj] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She might have been any age between thirty and sixty and Wexford set the lower limit so low only because of her young children . |
| 2 | He is not so light-hearted now as he used to be — too much responsibility . |
| 3 | The thing I was getting so pissed off cos I 've run it about ten times now , cos you keep coming and do alterations ! |
| 4 | The section on the chemistry of gasication is not so definitive partly because the temperature gradient , which varies according to fuel and gasifier design , affects both the position of chemical equilibria and the relative rates of different reactions within the gasifier but also because few experimental results are available for interpretation . |
| 5 | Indeed this ‘ gender neutral ’ definition of sexism has become so prevalent even since the first edition of this book was written , it is necessary in this revised edition to be much more explicit about my use of the term . |
| 6 | In 1792 wages in Sheffield were said to be so high generally as to allow the leisure-preferring cutlers to live comfortably from working only three days a week . |
| 7 | Perhaps because something called a stoup in a church was not so interesting enough as he had thought . ’ |
| 8 | It was irrational to be so resentful now when it was so nearly over anyway , but she was too infuriated by his failure to love her to be thinking clearly . |
| 9 | But perhaps you 've got a long drive ahead , ’ he said , not so much hesitantly as enquiringly . |
| 10 | She found it unnerving to be made aware that she could want a man so much physically when her mind was totally against it . |
| 11 | On the other hand , neither did the faithful military figure so much here as it did in the political activities of the Smolensk party organization . |
| 12 | Mr Sims , if that was his real name , dressed not so much snappily as very cleanly . |
| 13 | Dada accepted all the changes at Deer Forest , not so much apathetically as with genuine indifference . |
| 14 | Shutting his eyes , he stopped and was there the one he always remembered from his childhood polish , dust , though not so much now as the smell of books . |
| 15 | Not so much now because of ill health but she used to . |
| 16 | Not so much now because it 's mainly the youngsters that go there . |
| 17 | Erm the only problem is well , even s even , not so much now because because the er a bit better . |
| 18 | With every hot day in July worth so much more than one in the mists of September , the later start threatens to take the gloss of what , at first glance , seems set to be a good harvest . |
| 19 | ‘ This is a great mystery , ’ declares the apostle Paul , for it is so much more than two people getting together . |
| 20 | The proportion of out-of-wedlock births has increased so much mainly because the number of births to married couples has sharply declined . |
| 21 | alright you do n't ne , actually you do n't need your hood up , because it 's ever so warm even though it 's dull |
| 22 | It is probably a fact that few people have ever thought about , but a fact nonetheless , that nights are not so dark now as they used to be . |
| 23 | All the trees , so large now as to enclose this garden , excluding the sight of other houses , so that but for the complex of railway lines it might have been in the country , were in late summer leaf . |
| 24 | So straw-burning rather than using straw for animals is something which is bad for the environment and for welfare . |
| 25 | Be so good now as to march these miscreants to Mutton House . |
| 26 | But I 'm not so sure now if it 's possible . ’ |
| 27 | Indeed , the boom in architecture and property development was so great precisely because nothing whatever diverted the flow of capital from what The Builder in 1848 called ‘ one half of the world … on the lookout for investment ’ to ‘ the other half continually in search of eligible family residences ’ into serving the urban poor , who clearly did not belong in the world at all . |
| 28 | Ever so many here as well |
| 29 | Oh of course do n't forget yester yesterday erm they allow so many in so you 'd all be going in at the same time |
| 30 | The breakfast dishes were n't even washed , though I have n't so many now as two daughters are away . |