Example sentences of "so [adj] and [adv] " 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 | Not so tall and powerfully built that she felt as though she might break if he so much as touched her . |
| 3 | Ferdinando had aged , too , was no longer as vigorous nor did he walk so tall and straight . |
| 4 | She gazed at the golden-haired figure standing so tall and so proud in the centre of the stage . |
| 5 | ‘ It is not easy to hang a fine suit from shoulders so broad and straight as yours , Major . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ We were so debauched and yet we thought we were hilarious . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Why are these memories so strong and so personal ? |
| 9 | ‘ So strong and so powerful and so vulnerable . |
| 10 | 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 … |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Quite unable to stop herself , she too reached out to stroke the satin-softness of his skin , her eyes darkening as she saw the many bruises that came from trying to control the incredibly fast cars that flew so low and hard round the Grand Prix circuits . |
| 14 | It would be terrible to see Mum so upset and not be able to communicate . |
| 15 | I mean , I 'm sure my mother does but I never believed her , I was always afraid of being like her and I 'm such a disappointment to her , so hopeless and not beautiful , not like my grandmother . |
| 16 | It was indecent , surely , to stand like this , in public , and feel so alive and so excited ? |
| 17 | Strange how they can be so strange and then , quite suddenly , so normal . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | One reason is they have drawn so little and therefore can give so little . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In fact , he laughed so loud and so often that One Over The Eight practically came to a halt . |
| 25 | They er well I think constitutionally it 's very difficult and this is why there is now in a similar sense as why I suggested it to you as a subject , because not only it was er a very emotional story of a glamorous young woman saying I ca n't cope with being treated by the media and other people , I 'm going to retreat but what made it so historic and therefore the treatment of it 's so interesting , was that it presented such an extraordinary constitutional position |
| 26 | Before , I was such a handsome man , so sexy , so divine and so promiscuous . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Carrie felt impatient with her — no grown-up should be so weak and so silly — but she was sorry as well . |
| 29 | I 'm so depressed and often cry myself to sleep . |
| 30 | 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 . |