Example sentences of "so [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Into Western , ’ I said so thankfully to the men when they came . |
| 2 | The public ceremony , the ritual , the signing of the contract , which can speak so powerfully to the inner world of the subjects , is absent . |
| 3 | That was why she was reacting so badly to the news that he had left Taipei . |
| 4 | I can not agree with the view that consulting Hansard will add so greatly to the cost of litigation , that on this ground alone we should refuse to do so . |
| 5 | ‘ failure to give clear orders about the duties of officers contributed so greatly to the causes of this disaster . ’ |
| 6 | The fact that so many people object so strenuously to the feminist ‘ attack on words ’ suggests , to me at least , that this issue of sexism in language is not the trivial diversion it is often made out to be . |
| 7 | Pausanias does not consider the authorship of the metopes , but the difference of approach we noticed between the two groups corresponds so exactly to the difference between the gables that we can safely postulate one designer for the sculptures at each end of the building ; but can it be one man who designed both ? |
| 8 | Thence northwards to Mina 's land , so eastward to the stream and over it at the place called Ufa 's ford , thence to the place called Lagness , thence to Laxley , and so to the place called Balsham , thence to the bridge at Ellridge , and thus northwards besides the marshy places , over this to the stream called ( Aldingbourne Rife ) and thence east to Waermund 's enclosure , thence to Wador 's barrow from that place to the fishpond , and from there to ( Ryebank Rife ) , and so the line runs to the sea … |
| 9 | Sincere thanks to all who contributed so generously to the thanksgiving anniversary . |
| 10 | Lydia asks me to pass her thanks to everyone who has contributed so generously to the campaign and says that while little has changed in the way of living conditions for the prisoners and their families , the campaigners are confident of their victory . |
| 11 | Kate walked out , and climbed the shallow stairs that led so comfortably to the upper floor . |
| 12 | But filmmakers were only able to rise so impressively to the challenge because of what had happened in the preceding decade . |
| 13 | I wondered how you caught on so quickly to the trick of running water which will blot out all our conversation . |
| 14 | It has not been easy to change so quickly to the needs of a more demanding market place , but if your customers , staff or management have cause to complain of imprecise or unreliable temperature control equipment , of a poor maintenance record or of substandard temperatures at the point of consumption , we are the correct sector of engineering you require . |
| 15 | ‘ We are heartened by the fact producers have responded so quickly to the system . |
| 16 | No Church before committed itself so decisively to the rightness of modern biblical criticism and the freedom of biblical scholarship , while it continued to maintain the Bible and the faith of Easter as indispensable to the moral predicament of humanity and of its societies . |
| 17 | As a director myself of music films it 's great to know the Festival is contributing so imaginatively to the re-emergence of Birmingham as a major city of culture . |
| 18 | Ralph Bryant read out the hundred and seventh psalm the following Sunday at the morning service in St Saviour 's , and the congregation listened with rapt attention to those words which applied so directly to the men and boys who were to sail in the Russell that day : |
| 19 | said that conditions ‘ go so directly to the substance of the contract or , in other words , are so essential to its very nature that their non-performance may fairly be considered by the other party as a substantial failure to perform the contract at all . ’ |
| 20 | Of course , it was a great achievement that the United Nations reacted so promptly to the invasion of Kuwait by a dictator capable of almost infinite nastiness . |
| 21 | I must thank you for replying so promptly to the questionnaire which we enclosed with the last issue of The Birmingham Magazine . |
| 22 | In this sense it was Maxse 's radical Conservatism and not his more dangerous notions that brought him so close to the hub of Conservative politics in the decade before 1914 . |
| 23 | This is because the former faces lack either a sunny aspect or a pleasant prospect and the preservation of privacy is an important consideration on elevations so close to the highway . |
| 24 | Women leave , afraid to bear children in a city so close to the reactor . |
| 25 | Philip , pressed so close to the tree he could feel the knobbles in the bark , watched him . |
| 26 | The luckless eight-year-old hit the fence so close to the ground that at least a somersault was inevitable . |
| 27 | Mention Chiswick House today and everyone will think of the neo-Palladian Villa set in wonderful parkland , now all controlled by English Heritage , and famous as one of the finest examples of its kind in Britain , yet so close to the centre of London and with other interesting places close by . |
| 28 | Did they have to have so tight-packed an audience , with the front row so close to the dais on which he was sitting that he could positively feel their stupid gawping eyes on him ? |
| 29 | Realizing the extent of the betrayal , it was clear to both of them that they could not hang around so close to the target area hoping for survivors . |
| 30 | I may not even hook a fish , for the disturbance of retrieving a float through such shallow water , so close to the fish , would be sure to scare them . |