Example sentences of "so [adj] [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But it places so little emphasis on resistance to the dominant culture , that it either becomes a sort of ‘ toothless liberalism ’ ( Segal 1987 : 24 ) , or ignores politics completely . |
| 4 | Because there is so little drag on crossing two stitches every four rows this is one time when you will not need to take down a stitch to either side of the cable . |
| 5 | I think this is generally because there is so little loft on the clubface and they fear that they will not get the ball into the air . |
| 6 | Strange that something as solemn as death should make so little impression on her , while this trivial memory should pierce her through and through . |
| 7 | ‘ I find it surprising , ’ says Bingham , ‘ that this meeting made so little impression on Barnes … |
| 8 | So that sleep on it . |
| 9 | So that standing on the platforms of our great inland stations , we watch a salutary stir in the ebb and flow of restless men ; we see men under treatment by Motion , and know there is a chance for them . |
| 10 | The clearers tell the Bank of England of their target balances so this influence on the money market cash position will be known with reasonable certainty . |
| 11 | That would usually be called an engine , and in a car the engine just burns petrol and produces the mechanical energy in the shaft which turns the wheels , so the course is learning about the nature of mechanical forces and energy , thermal forces and energy and of the conversion of one form of energy to another , and in the process you learn that there are fundamental scientific laws — in particular the second law of thermo-dynamics — which says that you ca n't necessarily go form energy in one form with a hundred percent efficiency to getting it out in another form , so this limitation on your ability to convert from one form into another without waste in fact comes into many , many processes and every day processes . |
| 12 | So fiscal policy on its own can not be relied upon to achieve all the macroeconomic objectives simultaneously since it operates essentially through the channel of aggregate demand . |
| 13 | We were silly to take so much sun on our first day , but it was just too nice to go in . ’ |
| 14 | Why spend so much money on mere clutter ? |
| 15 | ‘ We could n't take the risk of blowing so much money on someone we are unsure of , ’ said Toulon 's manager Roland Courbiss , ‘ I wanted Charlie in the team but we had to be sure because of his reputation . ’ |
| 16 | We could probably only charge about £4 a ticket , so even if we could do an Eastern European tour , we 'd lose so much money on it . |
| 17 | Supporters suggest that because water metering lowers demand , water companies wo n't need to spend so much money on building new reservoirs — savings that can be passed on to consumers . |
| 18 | I mean , schools the only thing I was , I 'd been governor of a a school for thirty years that was used to depress me with the fact that we could n't get for our schools the things that we needed because to me and to all the people in Harlow who have children are concerned that we are being stopped so much money on education which is the most vital thing in our children 's lives ! |
| 19 | She telegraphed Anna to meet her , she could n't have put her hand on so much money on her own . |
| 20 | There 's more folk working do n't make so much money on it . |
| 21 | If , as the Minister says , we recouped so much money on the Gulf war , may I ask him to explain why the Ministry of Defence is being so mean and tight-fisted towards some of those who were prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice during that war ? |
| 22 | Why do so many governments , rich and poor , spend so much money on military equipment and weapons which rapidly become obsolete and which ordinary people throughout the world hope will never be used ? |
| 23 | I find it very difficult to understand why governments spend so much money on military equipment . |
| 24 | I said to her , it 's all very well , but , we spend so much money on them and we do n't seem to spend any money on victims . |
| 25 | I don I do n't know whether I want to spend er , you know , so much money on that . |
| 26 | Enthusiasts were less surprised that much of that investment went sour through design faults and technical failures , and grieved that so little thought was given to the simple , old fashioned matter of looking out , the deprivation of forward and backward view that had encouraged so much travel on the first generation of multiple units allegedly being due to the unions not liking the public seeing their men at work . |
| 27 | No two prose characters exert so much influence on a play as do Pandarus and Thersites , and only one other play that I can think of ( King Lear ) makes so much use of a simultaneous gap between the two media . |
| 28 | In fact , there 's so much bonding on stage that it would make the average punter slightly sick . |
| 29 | I know that on Sunday I was on , on the watch , this weekend , and there was so much ice on the river , our anchor boat which is all made of wood , that 's moored up alongside the dredger and when I went along and got , that was about twelve o'clock in the mid-day . |
| 30 | Would you say that with so much emphasis on film and the camera , theatre training is becoming less important ? |