Example sentences of "so [adj] and so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chomsky has claimed that the principles underlying the structure of language are so specific and so highly articulated that they must be regarded as being biologically determined ; that is , as constituting part of what we call " human nature " and as being genetically transmitted from parents to children . |
| 2 | She gazed at the golden-haired figure standing so tall and so proud in the centre of the stage . |
| 3 | Joe Haines , from his vantage point as Harold Wilson 's press secretary , reckoned that so strong and so determined was their resolve to make the country a member that no government , regardless of party , could have resisted it indefinitely . |
| 4 | Why are these memories so strong and so personal ? |
| 5 | ‘ So strong and so powerful and so vulnerable . |
| 6 | And in the depths of the forest , the humming is still strong , and the wind is still swirling all about us , and something is stirring , something that is so strong and so purely magical that no one has ever been able to resist it … |
| 7 | Instantly , as if he had somehow thrown an electrical switch , she felt a surge of responsive excitement — so strong and so unexpected that she trembled involuntarily in his embrace . |
| 8 | In my part of the world , which is north east England and especially County Durham , nobody much really believes all this talk about an industrial and economic recovery which will be so strong and so widespread that most people will be back in the sort of jobs they used to have , providing they get the necessary training . |
| 9 | It was indecent , surely , to stand like this , in public , and feel so alive and so excited ? |
| 10 | Though it was so strange and so cryptic , Boy understood this call , because he began to understand now that there are different kinds of wanting someone . |
| 11 | Jim thought this was priceless and laughed so loud and so long that he brought the Duty Officer down from Flying Control to find out what he 'd missed . |
| 12 | ‘ The crying was so loud and so wonderful that it made the people astounded unless they had heard it before ’ ; she ‘ made wondrous faces and expressions ’ too . |
| 13 | Without warning , it suddenly let out a blast of the 62 first line of Dixie on a five-tone airhorn , so loud and so unexpected that it made Alina take a startled step back . |
| 14 | It was so loud and so deep it was n't really sound at all , just something that turned the air hard and then hit you with it . |
| 15 | In fact , he laughed so loud and so often that One Over The Eight practically came to a halt . |
| 16 | Before , I was such a handsome man , so sexy , so divine and so promiscuous . ’ |
| 17 | On the one hand , there will be those whose belief in the concept is so definite and so fixed that they almost allow it to rule their lives . |
| 18 | Carrie felt impatient with her — no grown-up should be so weak and so silly — but she was sorry as well . |
| 19 | Hypnosis is rather like the former situation ; you are aware of all that is happening but , because it feels so right and so pleasant , you allow it to happen . |
| 20 | It also confronted them with the disagreeable fact that at any moment some disorder in their own sensory apparatus would cause that universe , ostensibly so orderly and so stable , to disappear . |
| 21 | By combining this chapter with the last we can see why International Relations is so unsettled and so ready to try very varied approaches . |
| 22 | I saw a group last year that had a re-release go top ten ; they appeared on Top Of The Pops and they looked so old and so wrong . |
| 23 | That is why Paul Gascoigne was , and I trust will be , so exciting and so different . |
| 24 | The whole situation was so grotesque , so funny and so preposterous . |
| 25 | Boullee demonstrated one aspect of vision and I mention it because it is so clear and so obvious . |
| 26 | The girl 's voice in her ear startled her ; it was so clear and so close . |
| 27 | The rampant desire she glimpsed in his eyes was so clear and so fierce that she felt her breath catch in her throat . |
| 28 | Their anatomy is so specialised and so different from the urodeles that they are classified in an order of their own , the caecilians . |
| 29 | If the behaviour patterns of the good citizen as delineated by Home Office ministers were both so lacking and so necessary to cultivate as they suggested , the schools ' function in laying the essential foundations was transparently obvious . |
| 30 | Although Georgian architecture is now so popular and so familiar , its introduction must have shocked some people at the time . |