Example sentences of "so [adj] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the forces of the countries of the socialist camp are so great today and they are so strong economically that they can fully take upon themselves , on the basis of the development of normal trade relations , the provision of Cuba with all the necessary goods which are denied her by the United States … the Soviet Union is prepared to deliver oil and other goods in amounts fully meeting the requirements of Cuba , in exchange for Cuban goods . |
| 2 | This feeling was so strong there that he almost expected to see Linkworth standing there , watching him . |
| 3 | She might have been any age between thirty and sixty and Wexford set the lower limit so low only because of her young children . |
| 4 | He is not so light-hearted now as he used to be — too much responsibility . |
| 5 | At the start of chapter 16 we are reminded of it again , and things seem so hopeless now that Sarah urges Abraham to have a child by her Egyptian maid , Hagar . |
| 6 | when the music gets so loud here that you ca n't stand |
| 7 | Her voice was so dry now that sometimes Kit fancied he heard her when he could not , in the scraping of the boughs of trees , the footfalls in the dusty earth . |
| 8 | This is so respectable today that Christians of all denominations have embraced it . |
| 9 | The section on the chemistry of gasication is not so definitive partly because the temperature gradient , which varies according to fuel and gasifier design , affects both the position of chemical equilibria and the relative rates of different reactions within the gasifier but also because few experimental results are available for interpretation . |
| 10 | A majority of the United Kingdom workforce decided against strike action and the mood of the Glasgow workers was so clear yesterday that a vote did not have to be taken . |
| 11 | Indeed this ‘ gender neutral ’ definition of sexism has become so prevalent even since the first edition of this book was written , it is necessary in this revised edition to be much more explicit about my use of the term . |
| 12 | Auntie Ethel 's old school friend , Elaine , not so popular now that she was Rich and Successful . |
| 13 | In 1792 wages in Sheffield were said to be so high generally as to allow the leisure-preferring cutlers to live comfortably from working only three days a week . |
| 14 | They are still the most glamorous club in Britain , but our confidence is so high now that we could take them apart . |
| 15 | ‘ That 's a great shame , because unemployment is so universal nowadays that I would have hoped the stigma would disappear . ’ |
| 16 | The Drôme , the Tricastin , the Nyonsais regions are so different from Provence , so unfrequented early in the year , so interesting historically and architecturally why hurry off to the south ? |
| 17 | Perhaps because something called a stoup in a church was not so interesting enough as he had thought . ’ |
| 18 | It was irrational to be so resentful now when it was so nearly over anyway , but she was too infuriated by his failure to love her to be thinking clearly . |
| 19 | Isaac was old and his eyes were so dim so that he could not see ’ ( 27.1 ) . |
| 20 | So violent sometimes that they can not stand up but lie perfectly exhausted . |
| 21 | alright you do n't ne , actually you do n't need your hood up , because it 's ever so warm even though it 's dull |
| 22 | How can you now suddenly decide that this is the truth when you were so convinced before that I was guilty of every form of unscrupulous dealing possible ? ’ |
| 23 | It is probably a fact that few people have ever thought about , but a fact nonetheless , that nights are not so dark now as they used to be . |
| 24 | Stoppard 's stage directions are so explicit here that we do not have to watch the TV production in order to appreciate the impact of Anderson 's action . |
| 25 | The playing is so fine here that the notoriously ‘ unsatisfactory ’ ending makes complete sense . |
| 26 | All the trees , so large now as to enclose this garden , excluding the sight of other houses , so that but for the complex of railway lines it might have been in the country , were in late summer leaf . |
| 27 | he can be so stubborn sometimes and , and you know the other |
| 28 | So straw-burning rather than using straw for animals is something which is bad for the environment and for welfare . |
| 29 | She was so tense now that her muscles were beginning to quiver . |
| 30 | ‘ No , ’ she answered quietly , and felt so guilt-ridden then that she could n't look at him , but turned her head and stared out of the side-window . |