Example sentences of "so [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She knew now , consciously at last and with absolute clarity , why she had always reacted so intensely to Luke Scott .
2 This is the force which I am applying so relentlessly to Daniel Miller , this is the power he is trying to escape on his bumpy journey into the winter woodlands .
3 So on to greyhounds a little earlier than usual , it 's the quarter final of the prestigious Pall Mall at Oxford Stadium tonight , the meeting starts at seven thirty .
4 The demise of an orthodox Marxism may have left theory with a sense that everything is now in flux , that the old verities have gone , but it has also involved the important realization , articulated so forcibly by writers such as Foucault or Said , of the deep articulation of knowledge with power .
5 Boys , young lads , not happy boys or they would not have sat so loosely to life that they could come the way of their murderer .
6 Based very loosely on the Pat Barker novel Union Street — so loosely in fact that the Robert De Niro character Stanley does n't exist in the original — Stanley and Iris manages for most of its length to say a great deal about struggling along just above the poverty line .
7 Abandoning the isolation he had sought so avidly in September , he went back so as to be at home for Christmas , always a precarious time for him .
8 So onward to Week 3 .
9 EVERYTHING was going so swimmingly for Johnny Bryan .
10 In the first edition I felt I owed a debt of gratitude to my old teacher , Professor Geoffrey Lampe , who has since died so courageously of cancer , to close friends , the Revd.
11 At Kensington Palace and Highgrove the couple entertained little , so rarely in fact that their butler Allan Fisher described working for the Wales 's as ‘ boring ’ .
12 He was one-eyed with a great purple birthmark across his face ; he must be the same fellow who had been closeted so secretly with Irvine at the Sea Barque in Leicester .
13 In fact , every Stewart king between 1424 and 1542 was able to make his presence felt abroad precisely because he could impose it so effectively at home .
14 I would say too that Lillie was a pioneer in using visual aids to get his point over , as Greenpeace and others now do so effectively with video cameras .
15 One powerful source of fresh blood came from new men to whom we shall return , the Sussex ironmasters , like the Bowyers of Cuckfield who disputed so effectively with Bishop Curteys .
16 I can count on the fingers of one hand all the journalists I have met who are committed to telling the truth about my field as well as they can discover it , No one could organise censorship so effectively in America , so the distortions in the press must reflect countless more or less independent decisions by editors and reporters which lead to the perpetuation of a misleading and intellectually fallacious understanding of a serious scientific subject .
17 The desktop publishing market that has been exploited so effectively by Apple in recent months probably represents the top 20% of the market .
18 As such , the move attempted to recapture the populist politics of " People Power " from which Aquino had mobilized so effectively against Marcos .
19 It is a considerable headache for Taylor , whose plan to retain the midfield that performed so effectively against Norway last month is in danger of being destroyed .
20 His father described him as ‘ a large , placid baby with very dark eyes and skin and thick black hair … good-tempered and easy to amuse , even when unwell ’ , and there were few indications , as a small boy , of the vigorous intellect and independence of mind that was to flourish so strikingly in adolescence .
21 Neutrinos , those ghostly elementary particles produced in radioactive decays , have a reputation for being elusive : they interact so weakly with matter they can pass right through the Earth unimpeded .
22 ‘ Did you have to behave so churlishly with Ralf ? ’ she burst out , saying the first thing to enter her head .
23 I was possessed of a lively curiosity to investigate this kampong of the Other Side — that lively curiosity which has carried me so successfully through life .
24 When William Bradford stepped off the Mayflower he described the North American landscape as a ‘ hideous and desolate wilderness , ’ and promptly set about bringing it to heel just his ancestors had done so successfully throughout Europe .
25 The Littlewoods formula , built so successfully by Liverpool legend Sir John Moores , seemed hopelessly outdated — nothing more than boring clothes in boring stores .
26 Yes one of the er sad things about Harlow youth theatre which many of you will remember er was sole run so successfully by Roger over a number of years .
27 There 's a Danish proverb , you know , that states that fish and guests smell after three days and er we all know the visits which have begun so successfully from friends and relatives , it need n't be Christmas , it could be at any time of the year , which are often ruined by people lingering on well past their sell-by date .
28 At all times Eisenhower was guided by strong views as to what constituted the best interests of the United States and its allies — even if in pursuit of those ends he felt obliged to act so vigorously against Britain and France .
29 But an economic system without the freedom established by property rights results in the direction of labour and capital — something described so powerfully by Solzhenitsyn as the Gulag Archipelago .
30 A right-wing corner by the left-footed Preece was met so powerfully by James that the young full-back could be proud of the header which brought him his first goal of the season …
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