Example sentences of "so [adj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've got a Congress fund which , I mean today it 's getting so dear to go to Congress erm you know , the hotels are so dear . |
| 2 | Why is it so pleasant to walk down a particular street , drive through a country village with its church , cottages and farms , or visit a country house and gardens ? |
| 3 | For reasons principally of economy , most county councils have preferred to concentrate development on a few villages which can then conveniently be provided with the full range of public amenities — schools , shops , libraries , sewerage facilities and so on-This saves on the enormous cost of duplicating amenities in every village and helps to direct and contain population growth to a few well-chosen sites . |
| 4 | The search for cheap but reliable mass screening tests and accurate diagnostic algorithms has so far been fruitless , so case-finding based on clinical suspicion will continue to be the most important strategy . |
| 5 | does not explain why the rate of investment and innovation in British industry were so low to begin with . |
| 6 | So sorry to hear about Win Morgan I was , fine woman , your mam . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ So sorry to hear about your accident . |
| 8 | Captain Cook material remains in demand as so little survives outside public collections . |
| 9 | In such societies labour is so little thought of as a special separate type of activity that there is no word which in any way corresponds to what we with our language , moulded by the history of capitalism , mean by labour . |
| 10 | Maggie had so little to do during the day that she spent much of the time chatting and gossiping with Rose . |
| 11 | This is Millie 's father , coming up Hyde Hill Lane of an evening so wearily , with so little to say for himself ; yet here he is sliding through the grass with such snake-like speed and resourcefulness . |
| 12 | First , the absence of specialist alcohol training on qualification courses means there is no emphasis on screening , so little occurs in later practice . |
| 13 | When you 're superhuman , so little seems worth the bother . |
| 14 | So Labour suffered from a ‘ circulation gap ’ of 17 percentage points . |
| 15 | And so Labour went into the election on a fudged policy designed more to placate Roy Hattersley than to win over voters . |
| 16 | BELVILLE : Nothing could be called so that belongs to the Countess of Pembroke . |
| 17 | Applying the usual procedure to obtain this in another frame we obtain so that transforms as a rank 2 tensor . |
| 18 | At the time the L & B railway was built there were no railway carriage building firms so that underframes for original stock were constructed at Euston or , as it was then called , Euston Grove Station , while bodies were built by a West End road vehicle builder and carted from his works to the station . |
| 19 | I do n't know why sh , had n't have been so dry to begin with . |
| 20 | While Boss Vid , the usual hits package , can get irritating , and does n't answer any of the truly vital questions about The Shamen ( such as why are those headphone mics so annoying to look at , and why does the sight of Mr C turn grown men into sobbing rags ? ) it does have its moments . |
| 21 | The car was not so exciting to drive as the Mascot , but he had to admit that it was less demanding . |
| 22 | But Pappy , who was always so willing to engage with her for hours and talk about school work or play chess , only patted her on the shoulder and fobbed her off with platitudes when the question of her mother came up . |
| 23 | They realize that they have problems and but they seem so willing to stand by each other and the the spirit which I 've noticed is very h |
| 24 | Investors are so willing to believe in recovery around the corner that they will clutch at false hopes almost indefinitely . |
| 25 | While the courts are chary of ‘ trespassing upon the province of Parliament ’ , because of the doctrine of the supremacy of Parliament , it appears that Parliament is not so willing to accord to the courts a rightful province upon which Parliament should not trespass . |
| 26 | It was sort of , so few came through it was very much sort of under the counter . |
| 27 | Before the volcanic cloud was dispersed and SO 2 converted to sulphate aerosols , O 3 perturbations caused by large concentrations of SO 2 in the volcanic cloud may have occurred . |
| 28 | We find that in the first month or so after the eruption , the large amount of SO 2 injected into the tropical atmosphere catalyses mid-stratospheric ozone production . |
| 29 | Oil is also the raw material for the plastic used in manufacturing new bags so this saves in excess of another four million gallons of oil that would otherwise be used in their production . |
| 30 | So this talks about putting together the comprehensive training and development policy , and training plan , that we need to get to get I I P to demonstrate . |