Example sentences of "so [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 And while we 've struggled to keep ourselves from the fridge , we have wondered why we long so intensely for one food .
2 And this is a Sotino which is a quality brand in those days , I , I , do n't know if it still is , I assume it is , erm , which was not advertised at all , and although the Rolex 's and so on in this world have been heavily advertised as they came on the market , Sotino 's never really was , so my father had a struggle I suspect selling .
3 Do not expect me to congratulate you , madam , I am too busy congratulating myself that I am not the father-in-law of a man who can speak so demeaningly of any young girl in public .
4 Nor for those others that came so rarely to this place .
5 You might think the only safe course is straightforward , sound , economic government and you might wonder therefore why so rarely in recent years Governments have practised it , except when they have been hit over the head by external forces and events that they could n't resist .
6 At a time of so much egocentric materialism it 's refreshing to see the NI fighting so effectively for imaginative humanitarianism . "
7 If the Audit Commission is to continue to do the work that it does so successfully for local government , and to achieve better value for money , it must be independent and impartial , and its reports and work must be respected .
8 The rebuilding is still taking place , but while they perhaps lack Wigan 's all-round capability , some of the assurance that carried them so successfully through two-thirds of last season has looked to be returning , and they could possess the forward strength to disrupt Wigan 's composure .
9 He did so successfully in 1948 , outpointing Vince Hawkins at Birmingham and thus becoming the first black champion to be recognized by the BBBC .
10 Only the quota on Japanese vehicles prevents a true head-to-head with the class-leading Discovery and the Isuzu Trooper that has cashed in so successfully in this growth sector of the market .
11 But that side did n't do so badly at all .
12 Er they do n't do so badly at all , they get free er They get allowance for their accommodation in London , Okay ?
13 I am not doing so badly at all . ’
14 Why does he not face up to his responsibility and see that adequate compensation is given to the people who suffered so badly during that development ?
15 Some have argued that the lands of the Iceni suffered so badly from this act of destruction that the tribe remained economically backward .
16 As this was rather uncomfortable , a year later we were allocated a council house , this house was in where our old house had been and my nana 's house was in the neighbouring village of , so luckily in all our moves my brother and I never had to move schools .
17 It was only later , after they had become engaged , that he had seemed to change , so slowly at first that she was scarcely even aware of it happening until , one day at a party given by a fellow student , someone , she could n't even remember who , had planted a playful kiss on her cheek .
18 Things had been moving so slowly in recent months that some Conservative MPs , like Robert Adley , the railway buff who chairs the Tories ' backbench transport committee , were convinced that privatisation was about to be dropped altogether .
19 Not only radioactive plutonium has a half-life ; so does the information on these contracts , which leaks so slowly from Scottish Office canisters .
20 As Sawyer and Darton wrote so tellingly in English Books : ‘ The Running Stationers , as they were at the last called , bore a light but precious fardel : just the Short History of the English People — no more . ‘
21 He had performed so brilliantly on other expeditions he became fully fledged climber .
22 He had performed so brilliantly on other expeditions that he became a fully — fledged climber .
23 Of course , the Broadway that Clifford Odets and Alexander Mackendrick captured so brilliantly in that classic film has now vanished .
24 Victory will open the door to a money-spinning rematch with Italy 's Mauro Galvano , from whom Benn wrenched the WBC super-middleweight title so brilliantly in early October .
25 But you see er you know you 'd got to do that so in between those times you could n't do much else could you ?
26 When I browse through the list of tracks on Beechwood 's latest release ( the 11th ) in their ‘ Indie Top 20 Chart Hits ’ series and note the success of Carter TUSM , The Charlatans , Flowered Up , Teenage Fan Club , The Shamen , and others , things do n't seem so down after all .
27 So perhaps in some ways er we would deduce from this that the the motive of the revolutionaries in sixty eight was in perhaps to some extent to complete what had been started in seventeen eighty nine but not finished and somebody would , Clinton presumably he would say I 'm gon na complete the programme that John F Kennedy started , but was unable to finish because the tragic way in which his career was ended .
28 But , as she demonstrated so memorably in last year 's auspicious Prom performance , it holds no terrors for the young soprano Galina Gorchakova , who gives a performance of thrilling virtuosity and commitment .
29 This falls so gently on dust-stiffened green
30 So much for traditional cabinet government .
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