Example sentences of "given so [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From whatever angle you look things are wrong : even if Froggy had n't been murdered , it was unheard of that he should be given so much money up front to caddie for Harley . |
| 2 | The remark could only be made because Ashton had given so much thought to how the music could be given shape in dance . |
| 3 | But in fact , Jackie had by then given so much thought to the sport , to its rules , its techniques , its politics , its characters , that he was unendingly fascinating . |
| 4 | Never in the history of human seduction has one man given so much attention to the cause of international womanhood as the former roadsweeper from Milton . |
| 5 | It seems doubtful that any other photographer has given so much attention to the condition of trees growing in close proximity to urban man . |
| 6 | Then you were given so much time to get back home again . |
| 7 | This is why all those scientists have given so much time and effort to such apparent trivia as Fermat 's Last Theorem and the advance of Mercury 's perihelion . |
| 8 | Why , then , has it given so much trouble to so many ? |
| 9 | There was much wrath that he had been meaninglessly sacrificed and a Test career that had given so much pleasure needlessly brought to a premature end . |
| 10 | Victor Mature , who has given so much pleasure in his day that nothing must be said against him , is , however , not wholly convincing sitting in a cell wearing a leather mini-skirt , reading Pythagoras . |
| 11 | The attitudinal function has been given so much importance in past work on intonation that it will be discussed separately in this chapter , though it should eventually become clear that it overlaps considerably with the discourse function . |
| 12 | Seldom can a chancellor have been given so much advice , some of it sought , some of it gratuitous — and , as is the way with this subject , much of it conflicting . |
| 13 | Seldom can a chancellor have been given so much advice , some of it sought , some of it gratuitous — and , as is the way with this subject , much of it conflicting . |
| 14 | Given so little space , however , perhaps we need not have been reminded , as we are in Stanley Cramp 's foreword , that ‘ Ducks , geese , and swans live in or near water ’ , nor that the legs of the last two ‘ are placed near the middle of the body , so that the bird stands fairly upright ’ , Malcolm Ogilvie can tell most people something they did not know about wildfowl , but in this case his publishers clearly rushed him . |
| 15 | If there is one lesson to emerge from consideration of the changing balance of dependence and independence in old age , it is the flexibility and adaptability for which old people are given so little credit . |
| 16 | She feels angry that the public were given so little information and were exposed to such large amounts of radiation , unable to take any precautions to protect themselves . |
| 17 | Guidance about further reading can be given so that learning continues and is not viewed as a once and for all matter . |