Example sentences of "of the [noun] [conj] so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eye surgeons had learned to cut the ligament with complete success , but it was so different a procedure from the rest of the operation and so incompatible with it that they often dreaded it . |
| 2 | On the literary side , in the course of the century or so that has passed since the Symbolist movement in France , both poetry and , to a lesser extent , literary prose have been characterized by a degree of linguistic innovation unknown in most earlier periods . |
| 3 | He did not find it awkward that his own father was the tutor of the college and so responsible in a double sense for his pastoral care . |
| 4 | Although there will be significant exceptions , and these should be further studied , friendship is not a primary vehicle for the provision of the care that so many old people need . |
| 5 | I do not speak of the substance of the matter because so many of us have some doubts about the substance of it and we shall come to that later , but erm it does seem to me that er we had to get rid of erm sections two , two A and three of the Police Act nineteen sixty four as amended and that clearly doing so here and erm er er I I think that this is an improvement as a result on the laws that er present appears on the Statute Book . |
| 6 | She stressed that such an investigation would not hinder progress or hold up commerical companies , but would further public acceptance of the technology and so foster developments . |
| 7 | Allied spokesmen make light of the fact that so many enemy aircraft remain intact . |
| 8 | Mr Salmon told me that he 'd heard the best barrows were being sold off in the Old Kent Road , on account of the fact that so many young lads were heeding Kitchener 's cry and joining up to fight for King and country . |