Example sentences of "an [noun sg] so [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very slender ideas with which to cover such large areas , very slender indeed , but nobody has ever complained of monotony ; rather we are filled with wonder by an experience so moving and poetic . |
| 2 | ‘ Hugh always had a little group of favourites , an in-crowd so to speak , ’ he explained to Loretta , ‘ and Jamie was definitely one of them . |
| 3 | It is not Leavis 's goal to produce " national intellectuals " to serve as state missionaries , but rather a free.floating and critical educated class , membership of which is characterized by a particular kind of mental orientation : " It is an intelligence so trained that is best fitted to develop into the central kind of mind , the co-ordinating consciousness , capable of performing the function assigned to the class of the educate . " |
| 4 | Bush and Gorbachev merely represent the forces which brought them to office and merely pursue an agenda so predetermined that its outcome could have been predicted in advance . |
| 5 | They were outlined clearly against the blinds , locked in an embrace so abandoned that it was obvious neither suffered from the hang-ups she and Alan did . |
| 6 | Trouble is I know what , you were probably gon na start an argument so do n't bother . |
| 7 | Fergus had not been aware of the precise moment when the Lad of the Skins drew his soul from his body with the Knife of Light , but he had known a great coldness , and a sense of desolation , and an abandonment so complete that it had overwhelmed him , and for a time he had scarcely been aware of what was happening . |
| 8 | Dinner was an affair so riddled with undercurrents and tension that Rachel was barely able to eat the delicious tissue-thin pancakes , sliced spring onions and shredded duck Nightingale had so lovingly prepared . |
| 9 | what to do when you stand up there like an idiot so to sum up that the three most important things the span of conception nerves and clusters . |
| 10 | But in any event I have to say that I find the judge 's reasons unconvincing and would not be minded to follow them unless we were under an obligation so to do . |
| 11 | Modern practice has moved away from official reference to two experts and an umpire so described , but the procedures are often quite similar in practice . |
| 12 | Gorbachev announced at the RSFSR Supreme Soviet on Aug. 23 that he and Yeltsin had each agreed to take over the other 's functions if an emergency so demanded . |
| 13 | The medium , for Chester , is merely the means to an end : ‘ When we take over the theatre , we create an atmosphere so charged with positivity that people leave feeling uplifted . |