Example sentences of "and so [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is so perfectly scripted , so beautifully acted , so full of humanity and so stomach-clutchingly funny , that it makes almost every contemporary TV comedy look wan . |
| 2 | Her desperate need of him was so immediate , so pressing and urgent — and so incredibly familiar , as if it was the most natural thing in the world . |
| 3 | Thus the double layer moves more slowly than the average and so yet more growth layers pile up behind it and can not pass . |
| 4 | General Lee lost the battle and surrendered , and so yet another Saunderson was on the run . |
| 5 | Ranulf muttered indignantly against his strange master who dragged him across this wild country so different from the narrow streets of London and so utterly tedious as well . |
| 6 | You are so shit-scared of homosexuality and so utterly stupid , small-minded and screwed-up that your only reaction to ‘ faggots ’ is that ‘ every one of them should be electrocuted or shot ’ . |
| 7 | Such news , and so completely unbelievable . |
| 8 | Surely she could not be stupid enough to be falling in love , be bowled over by a man 's charm again , and so strongly this time ? |
| 9 | In view of the interviewer 's role in the discourse , it is not clear how far or how reliably such an extended interview really does resemble spontaneous conversation ; but Labov 's schema is likely to be less demanding of the fieldworker , more economical of time and resources , and so not subject to the same range of disadvantages as the participant observation methods of the Belfast community studies . |
| 10 | Typical numbers are 0 , small positive integers , large positive integers , where ‘ large ’ means either a number of the exact width leng , or of width ( leng-1 ) or finally of greater width and so not capable of being printed correctly by putNumber . |
| 11 | Of course it must be said that many people ca n't wait to leave their schooldays behind and so not all losses are to be regretted . |
| 12 | In other cases of benefiting non-shareholder interests , for example installing more effective anti-pollution equipment than is consistent with maximum profits or required by law , or delaying closure of a redundant factory in order to preserve jobs , the conduct , as with growth-motivated behaviour , is an integral part of business activity and so not susceptible to this kind of attack . |
| 13 | Ramsay , who found himself at the head of nearly a thousand men of Lothian , largely Lindsays — whose chief , Sir David , Keeper of Edinburgh Castle , was sick and so not present — Setons , Hepburns , Sinclairs , Keiths and other lesser clans , as well as his own men , offered to ride fast for the Borderland , to join Scott of Rankilburn whom Douglas had alerted to watch Dunbar ; together they would make up a force large enough to give that Earl pause . |
| 14 | The image is not digital and so not convenient for automatic processing . |
| 15 | If an elderly person buys an annuity out of her own capital , part of it will be treated as a repayment of capital , and so not liable to tax . |
| 16 | The shutter speed on the Pentax is synchronised for flash photography at unc sec and so invariably that was what I used . |
| 17 | There is an additional aspect that erm we we must look also , I think , at the viability of the services and facilities , er , within the new settlement , if the new settlement is , for the sake of argument five hundred houses then my submission is that that really offers no long term viability for any facility or service , erm , clearly you might get a primary school if the new settlement size was of the order of eight hundred to a thousand dwellings , but you would not get any sizable retail element , and so however far that settlement was located from the main centre they would still become dependant on that centre , and that 's why I think it 's important to recognize that if you are to achieve the erm if you like the balance of requirements , of achieving erm a reasonable degree of self containment within the new settlement , but also meet the needs of York , it has to be a reasonable size , but located as close to York as possible |
| 18 | A less obvious but equally successful choice was Arrigo Sacchi , an unknown second-division manager from Parma who brought to Milan an attractive , attacking ( and so rather un-Italian ) type of football . |
| 19 | Has the desire been bred in us or is it that there are so many and so easily available today that they are no longer considered of value ? ) |
| 20 | This is a relatively small volcano , and so easily accessible that it has even been suggested that a hotel should be built beneath it , to make an especially attractive night spot for jaded Guatemalans , but so far no one has risked the capital . |
| 21 | Therefore there is a logical tendency to preclude from view the social reasons why people are using the land in such a way as to cause excessive soil erosion , and so most conservation policies do not address them at all . |
| 22 | And so here this rural craft er thing which I wrote for which you asked me which is arriving from the last minutes , is I 'll read it out to you . |
| 23 | Some in disbelief that a car so beautiful , so fast and so downright delicious could cost as little as £27,000 . |
| 24 | Perhaps in this case the injunction can be ignored since the pattern is so widespread and so instinctively attractive . |
| 25 | DR PAUL TALALAY , a research scientist at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine , Baltimore , has discovered that broccoli prevents cells from becoming malignant — and so presumably broccoli-eating enthusiasts should have a reduced risk of getting cancer . |
| 26 | This leaves no room for the non-realization of the infinitive event since the action of producing an effect necessarily coincides in time with the appearance of the effect ( concurrent causation ) , and so both these verbs call for the bare infinitive . |
| 27 | no so it was saying how times have changed , but they used to be very , very stuck up and it showed some of the early programmes and how people used to talk , oh so frightfully posh and so frightfully gorgeous and the words , and , it 's rather pleasant is n't it , really rather nice |
| 28 | ‘ There are a lot of groups about who offer their services virtually free of charge , and so even cost-wise we do n't have to find too much money out of the amenity fund , it 's absolutely marvellous . ’ |
| 29 | The Middle Volga region , like the Nikol'skaia volost' in Kursk guberniia , was an area of good chernozem soils and so predominantly grain-producing . |
| 30 | Grainne arched her back like a cat , and Fergus began to peel the thin robe from her shoulders , kissing her bare skin , feeling her response , feeling the swing of her hair against his shoulders and chest , and exulting in it , for there is something so intimate and so wholly precious about the feel of a loved one 's hair against your skin … |