Example sentences of "so [adj] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My garden is all the more attractive because the gardens on either side are so rampant and untended : places where moss covers the paths , the grass is yellow and long and the stalks of sycamore seedlings have red , fungoid lumps . |
| 2 | For so solid and unemotional a man he might have been angry , or perhaps only in a hurry . |
| 3 | It was quite a shock to everyone when it was known that Mr Wilson had died ; he who had always seemed so solid and enduring . |
| 4 | He looked so strained and tired that they offered to say the Rosary in his room but he brushed the offer aside . |
| 5 | I 'm not suggesting that we should n't care about these little games and trifling details of life , for God wants us to practise on them in this world ; but I would like to see us not so strained and frantic in our concern about them . |
| 6 | So what do we do about those pieces of music which are effectively our own property-which are so adolescent or tuneless or rebarbative or just mediocre that we ca n't justify wasting anyone else 's time with them — but which are important to us ? |
| 7 | It is thus clear that the practice of was not without importance from the earliest days of the state and that in Molla Edebali and Tursun Fakih — perhaps also in the elusive Elvan Fakih and others there were men who performed much the same function as later Muftis ; but so scanty and uncertain is the available information about this early period that one can not confidently assert the existence , still less the continuity , of an officially designated post of Mufti . |
| 8 | This little man , so alert and cheerful , radiated honesty and trustworthiness . |
| 9 | What these qualities were Furse was never so vulgar or incautious as to define . |
| 10 | But an experience of praise or reward is so striking and sweet that they work doubly hard to encounter such a state of affairs again . |
| 11 | People who had at first seemed so friendly and decent and open and neighbourly , but who , after two or three encounters , had turned into ravingly obsessive lunatics . |
| 12 | Admiring blue eyes flicked over her , and his grin was so friendly and infectious that in spite of her despair Merrill felt her mouth lift a little . |
| 13 | Having just returned from this delightful island where the people are so friendly and courteous and where the cost of living is much less than in the UK , I thought the following information could be helpful . |
| 14 | They were engaged upon this when Roger arrived , and he was so friendly and jolly tonight that Breeze took him into her confidence . |
| 15 | The plan was so concise and symmetrical that its lines can still be traced today , especially if you look down on Aarau from a height . |
| 16 | Was it really only the day before yesterday when everything had been so pleasant and normal ? |
| 17 | The family liked her — Cis and Hilda , Ifor and David , Pontrhydyfen and Port Talbot : she was Welsh and so pleasant and easy , lovely personality , beautiful voice , could make you laugh , just what Rich needed , just right for him . |
| 18 | ‘ I received … . images of what they do , but it was so garbled and confused … . ’ |
| 19 | He was a big man , not So tall but heavy , with kind of reddish-brown hair-what was left of it-and a finely-kept half-moon beard on his chin . |
| 20 | He was so tall and masculine that he probably went for the dainty feminine types . |
| 21 | But you have grown so tall and handsome . ’ |
| 22 | She had grown so tall and disrespectful that the old woman was afraid to hit her . |
| 23 | He looked so tall and reliable and gentle and wise , and always greeted her in a kindly way with a little bow and a murmur . |
| 24 | Elizabeth 's eyes held the key to her sparkle and now that they were closed , she looked so wan and frail that his throat constricted with fear . |
| 25 | My mother smoothed his perfect brow , so broad and noble , and I laid a final kiss upon it . |
| 26 | Or are the stereotypes of rape portrayed by the press so narrow and unusual that they hinder the process of effective intervention by the state and others . |
| 27 | The rest of the journey , not least an eight hour wait for a connection in Los Angeles , was not , I have to admit , so memorable or pleasing . |
| 28 | Yet the field is so rich that new insights emerge year after year which , alas , are largely restricted to specialists . |
| 29 | An affair with this lovely woman who was so rich and inviting , and Viktor 's brief to him , track down the cross . |
| 30 | We might hold that the meaning of a given sentence is so rich and particular that it could never be captured by another sentence in a different language . |