Example sentences of "so [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they flowed on their — as it turned out — not so eternal journey from the hinterland of Ely and Cambridge to the Wash , these rivers deposited silt along their beds ; and now , although the rivers vanished centuries ago , this silt stands out , a startling pale-fawn colour , as it snakes across the adjacent black peat of the Fens . |
| 2 | of CBI SCOTLAND had been written to , asking her to send copies of the forthcoming conference notice to so each member of the E&PD committee might have one . |
| 3 | So each link in the system has to handle the whole range , and bandwidth , of services provided . |
| 4 | Once you 've established that you have the interest of around a dozen parents ( the number can be bigger or smaller , although a circle can be rather unmanageable if too many people are involved ) , decide on a system of allocating sitting ‘ jobs ’ so each parent in the circle gets a fair share . |
| 5 | For steady mean conditions the first term of eqn ( 19.20 ) is zero , but it indicates the physical significance of the equation ; in view of the summation convention and so each term in the equation represents some process tending to increase or decrease the kinetic energy of the turbulence . |
| 6 | So pleasant dalliance in the cause of defence strategy was to end . |
| 7 | Because workers are unemployed , their incomes are low and so aggregate demand for goods is depressed . |
| 8 | A high degree of constructive conflict is almost essential in this process and I should perhaps quote the comments of a wise manager I worked for at one time , who pointed out that in industry the optimum level of conflict is not zero ; just as no friction or one hundred per cent friction immobilizes movement in a mechanical sense , so total absence of conflict or one hundred per cent conflict will immobilize movement in a company . |
| 9 | Some parents need help in identifying how they are reacting to their child and so professional observation of their interaction may be required . |
| 10 | THE NOT SO LAZY LIFE OF LARRY & LILY |
| 11 | Possibly cheaper , by reducing number of managers needed and so lower cost of overheads . |
| 12 | It was so strange talking to Creed like this . |
| 13 | ‘ WHAT surprises me now is not that my generation had so little sex in the 1950s , but that , given the circumstances , we had any at all ’ — Sir Peter Hall . |
| 14 | More than likely his younger brothers and sisters would welcome a new mother , but he was too nearly a man to take kindly to any woman set with so little warning in his own mother 's place , especially when this new incumbent stood to gain a crown as well as a ring . |
| 15 | Maus 's cartoon cross-cutting underlines , perhaps more vividly than any other medium could do , the truth of Vladek 's saying , when asked why the Jews offered so little resistance to the Germans : ‘ They could n't believe even what 's in front of their eyes … ‘ |
| 16 | Dunleavy also wishes to distinguish between different levels of the bureaucracy in explaining why , contrary to budget-maximization accounts , privatization has met with so little resistance from senior officials . |
| 17 | It is frustrating that so little pottery from settlements has been examined in this manner , although Brisbane ( 1981 ) has proposed a model for various modes of production that may be appropriate for such pottery . |
| 18 | ‘ He has so little faith in his own policies ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Alas , ’ sighed George , ‘ have you so little faith in our collective talents ? ’ |
| 20 | But to realise he had so little faith in her — that really hurt . |
| 21 | In the same spirit , ISS drew attention to the importance of HMI work on ‘ areas of experience ’ which seem to have had so little influence on TNC . |
| 22 | So why has this critical theory had so little influence in the area of critical practice , why has there been no process of a filtering down of ideas from the ‘ high ground ’ of theory to the ‘ lower ground ’ of journalism , reviewing and the more quotidian criticism ? |
| 23 | With so little fat in the diet I would n't have been surprised to receive reports of dryness , but I had no reason to worry . |
| 24 | Did she have so little charity after all ? |
| 25 | They were making so little progress on the Monday that Peter Hickton took the sensible decision and dismissed most of the cast at lunchtime ; he would sit down with Michael Banks and George Birkitt all afternoon and just go through the lines . |
| 26 | The other reason we claim so often to be arguing about a matter of principle is that there is so little substance in many arguments that a reference to principle is necessary in order to sustain the argument . |
| 27 | One reason there is so little change in most traditional bureaucratic organizations , I argue , is that they have conditioned out of people the willingness to stand up for a new idea . |
| 28 | Because there has been so little change in British industrial and fiscal policies in a changing world , the emerging nations are overtaking us , gaining access to our markets at home and abroad . |
| 29 | Lockwood received so little support from the Board of Trustees that one member , Professor Kevin Cathcart , head of the Department of Near Eastern Languages at University College , Dublin , resigned in 1988 . |
| 30 | In a way what is most striking , however , is that there is so little evidence from post-classical times : Levy 's Ergänzungsindex provides a fascinating illustration of just how many sources completely lack references to trusts . |