Example sentences of "a [noun] [vb -s] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not everyone who becomes a Christian does so by consciously thinking through these four levels , but , consciously or unconsciously , the four levels must be built into any healthy faith . |
| 2 | as a scientist works so much on his own , in his own little castle . |
| 3 | However , on rare occasions — perhaps twice before in recorded history — a change occurs so profound and so far-reaching that the entire orientation of society is altered completely in a relatively short period . |
| 4 | ‘ Lots of times I think a president seems so out of your league as far as knowing somebody . |
| 5 | ‘ Because a slip of a girl says so ? ’ demanded Michael . |
| 6 | It is interesting to see how a law has so rapidly effected a dramatic and important change in people 's behaviour concerning safety while travelling where even aggressive publicity campaigns apparently failed to make the necessary impact . |
| 7 | When a glider recovers so easily , a rapid movement forward on the stick often results in a very steep recovery and a high speed dive . |
| 8 | Right and said erm a particle moves so that its displacement is given by this function of T |
| 9 | The principle that no man can be a judge in his own cause may also be infringed if a person has so actively identified himself with the temperance cause , by his actions in campaigning against the granting of certificates , that it would be contrary to elementary justice that he should act as a member of a licensing board . |
| 10 | Research in the social sciences as a whole has so far done little to establish the relative strength of the effects of past and present on self-esteem . |
| 11 | However , because the success of a policy depends so heavily on the way it is devised and implemented , and because the experience of PNP raises such serious questions about the Authority 's role in this regard , it is clear that a review of Authority practices and procedures , as they affect primary education in the city , is now merited . |
| 12 | There is nothing a woman wants so much as to be in love , and the odds are very much against two ‘ right ’ people ever finding each other . |
| 13 | Men are the product of their past thoughts and deeds , according to the working of the law of karma , the harvest of deeds ; as a man sows so shall he reap , a principle accepted by St Paul in Galatians , a nexus of cause and effect . |
| 14 | I mean , can you think of any other situation , Pop , when a man gets so close to a woman except when he 's actually making love to her ? ’ |
| 15 | A man feels so insignificant against its vastness that confidences no longer seem something to keep to oneself . |
| 16 | It is a little disappointing that so handsome a book offers so breathless a review of the subject . |
| 17 | Above all , a pension seems so far away when you are in your twenties and thirties . |
| 18 | When we say a food contains so many " calories ' we really mean kilo-calories or thousand calories . |
| 19 | It may seem paradoxical , but New Historicism 's acknowledgement of a great complexity and subtlety between text and history and its hesitancy to make generalised claims for a culture has so far produced critical analysis of texts which tend to be recognisably similar to one another . |