Example sentences of "so [adj] [subord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In front of the entrance there is a pillar of rock forty feet high , called the Soldier Rock , and the entrance itself is so narrow as only to admit a small boat , and then only in fine weather . |
| 2 | He replied , ‘ the unity of the masses with the party was never so strong as now . |
| 3 | Such a fucking pranny and he 's so polite as well . |
| 4 | All the children have had measles , all five , you can not imagine what hard work it is , day and night and their poor eyes so sore as well as the rash and the fever . |
| 5 | For it is a prime fact about classical Macedon , and one that explains why so large and rich a country counted for so little until so late , that she was a frontier province of the Greek world ; beyond lay Illyrians , Dardanians and Thracians , and beyond them the drifting pre-Celtic populations of central Europe , undisciplined fighters but unlimited in manpower . |
| 6 | It is so weak as not really to provide a genuine sense of ‘ conclusive ’ , but this does n't really matter . |
| 7 | But in the period covered by this book society was not quite so hierarchical as before or after ; nor did a man 's place in the sun depend on the number and dignity of his ancestors . |
| 8 | The Act is perhaps not so clear where only the claimant with a possessory title is before the court , for example , because the true owner does not appear or can not be found . |
| 9 | But it 's just so sexual as well , you know , for children from four upwards , I just think it 's really bad . |
| 10 | It is worth mentioning that the final is not so theoretical as perhaps believed : 40 per cent of the marks are allocated in the practical paper . |
| 11 | This book included the 1985/86 season but I did n't buy the updated version which I think was available a year of so back as so much of the information is duplicate . |
| 12 | To cut a long story short , they did rejoin us at lunch-time , De Gaulle no longer looking shit-scared so much as downright shifty . |
| 13 | There is not so much as even a prima facie case for imagining that the ad hoc domestic forces available for the Latin music and the English devotional settings bore any close resemblance to the stereotyped and institutionalized vocal dispositions ( SAATB , succeeding SATB and SATTB ) supplied by the contemporary church choir ; these several bodies of music need to be addressed separately . |
| 14 | The thought of it filled her with an immense regret because a child could not stay a child there would be men ( a man she hoped ) in Nicandra 's life , Aunt Tossie thought with pity and some disgust — her mind scampered hurriedly from the contemplation of a subject not forbidden so much as not existing for her . |
| 15 | Probably not so much as previously . |
| 16 | I 've stayed on to help but not once have you met me so much as half-way . |
| 17 | It 's not when I wondered about so much as where ? ’ |
| 18 | I 've never felt the mystery of the future so much as here . |
| 19 | So much as just finding the gold . |
| 20 | It 's really , I mean next year I was sort of quite co I 'm quite committed to not having a year off so much as just exploring things and that 's what |
| 21 | If we are to take this speech as accurate reportage within the conventions of deathbed narratives , is there not something a little remarkable in Leapor 's assuring her friend and patron that she has always loved her father , though never so much as now , when she is dying ? |
| 22 | Yet preparation is not always a case of in-depth research so much as systematically thinking through what may be faced in the real life negotiating position . |
| 23 | It was n't so much as how to achieve a new social order , but how can I ensure that my son or daughter gets a better job than I did . |
| 24 | It was n't so much as how to achieve a new social order , but how can I ensure that my son or daughter gets a better job than I did . |
| 25 | Things seemed so much as before . |
| 26 | No demand , however , was made on us by the gate-keeper , the authorities being so liberal as not to charge persons for walking either on the roads or footpaths . |
| 27 | As a male chainworker commented to Commissioner on the Factory Acts in 1876 : ‘ I should advocate their [ women 's ] time should be so limited as neither to interfere with their own health and morals or with our wages ’ . |
| 28 | The change in employment may not always be so favourable as yesterday 's either , but the market is now starting to feel bullish and looking for a FT-SE of 3,000 by next year . |
| 29 | A common-sense assumption , so obvious as not to need labelling as such . |
| 30 | This may seem so obvious as not to need stating , but I believe that it can be overlooked . |