Example sentences of "of [noun prp] so [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | Instead he suffered an excruciating pain which made him clasp his heart , and he let go of Sarah so violently she crashed against the newel post . |
2 | He felt the presence of Gerda so strongly he could n't finish . |
3 | " What makes the history of England so eminently valuable , " wrote T. H. Buckle , " is that nowhere else has the national progress been so little interfered with , either for good or evil . " |
4 | Not all problems have gone away of course : yesterday 's £6.4 billion public sector borrowing requirement is not much higher than expectations , but it is almost as large as the deficit for the previous 11 months and — with this year 's deficit forecast to be double last year 's — shows why the Bank of England so eagerly sold £2 billion or more of gilts on election night and why it needs a regular stream of massive sales . |
5 | At some stage a suggestion arose from both sides — principally Damerell of BUPA so far as the doctors were concerned and , strangely enough , also from Barbara and the DHSS — that the consultancy strike was so damaging that a mediator should be sought . |
6 | But the meeting of intellectual endeavour and the Wanderlust , which John of Salisbury so clearly represents , is at least a symbol to us of the channels these influences found . |
7 | He thought it wrong to take him out of Cambridge so quickly . |
8 | Other people have a concept of God so fundamentally false that it would be better for them to doubt than to remain devout . |
9 | MathSoft reckons to have shipped around 300,000 units of Mathcad so far , mostly in the US , and the company is confident that it could well equal such success in Europe . |
10 | Britain remains the Dirty Man of Europe so far as SO&sub2 ; and NOx pollution is concerned , and will do so even when the EC Large Plant Directive is implemented by 2003 . |
11 | With sponsors and entrepreneurs to create what the international public wants we can create the jobs the people of Britain so sorely need , and a world wide reputation for excellence which can have very wide political benefits . |
12 | The loss of Chalmers so early on , although tragic , could not excuse the disarray that was Scotland 's three-quarter line , not at this level . |