Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SARFU had done little to try and rectify the damage created at Ellis Park so French and Fordham took the initiative prior to the special ANC meeting . |
| 2 | However , there has been considerable controversy over the meaning of the link between events and depression — whether in fact the existence of a psychosocial stressor makes a depressive response so understandable that it should not be considered a disease . |
| 3 | Avon skin so soft |
| 4 | Why are the College and also the A. S. M. so obsessed by finance ? |
| 5 | We are soon informed of how his wealth is made public knowledge in lines that suggest his generosity with his riches could be extravagance ; an imprudent use and showing of wealth — and his wife — rather than a wise one : This noble marchaunt heeld a worthy hous For which he hadde alday so great repair For his largesse ( and for his wyf was fair ) That wonder is … |
| 6 | I would sink down into a velvet void so entire and impenetrable that whether it was I or I was it , became moot . |
| 7 | With the briefing room so near to our office , the flying boys were in and out quite frequently , as I have mentioned . |
| 8 | From information received it was thought that some illegal activity was afoot off the Teign estuary so Venturous and Valiant were detailed to keep watch on the movements of local vessels early in August , 1964 . |
| 9 | POLICE are racing against time to find five stolen canisters of rodent poison so deadly it can not be handled without breathing apparatus . |
| 10 | After a few days I started to develop backache in the lumbar region so acute that I could hardly move . |
| 11 | Newspaper publicity always gave the impression that the school could train anyone from scratch with little or no dance experience so young readers felt that they could just turn up without an appointment and would immediately be seen by this apparently motherly woman called Jennie Tiller . |
| 12 | Thus the lower-frequency stretching mode of HCN , mainly associated with CN stretching , gives rise to IR absorption so weak that it can not effectively be observed by conventional means . |
| 13 | This is what made the Donovan libel action so daft . |
| 14 | I think it 's such a shame that he 's gone and put that wretched wirenetting fence so close to the road |
| 15 | One in eight mortgage payers are in arrears because the Government have launched a drive towards home ownership so powerful that mobility of labour has suffered . |
| 16 | It was only his tense state that made the crash sound so loud . |
| 17 | She said , ‘ Do you find it strange to see the Sun Chamber so empty , Captain ? ’ and Fergus thought : oho ! she is calling me Captain . |
| 18 | That was a task to stretch even the Mamur Zapt 's resources ( especially with the Curbash Compensation Fund so depleted ) . |
| 19 | One is the romantic , really Wordsworthian , individualist myth so dear to the literary guardians of English national cultural stereotypes . |
| 20 | Which ? argues the Government should investigate the whole licensing system so key issues including opening hours , family admission and cafe-style licenses could be aired . |
| 21 | She could barely breathe , her heart pounding so hard that she had to shout shakily , ‘ Because I knew it meant you could n't have married me for my father 's company , and I wanted to find out why you 'd lied about it . ’ |
| 22 | He recommends that the reader attempt to identify questions through the figures ( such as ‘ Why is the tax charge so low ? ’ ) which might be directed to the company 's management ( or an analyst ) or which might lead the reader to avoid investment if he does not like the answer . |
| 23 | But what made the community charge so unpopular was its size and certain iniquities . |
| 24 | Why is Oxford 's Community Charge so high ? |
| 25 | Can the government have got its farming policy so wrong ? |
| 26 | What makes a wine taste so different from another ? |
| 27 | It can not do this unless it first challenges the secularist assumption so endemic in our society . |
| 28 | Sometimes the mental and emotional fog is so thick and the denial system so intense that this Step 1 process takes significantly longer than two weeks . |
| 29 | This approach was gradually accepted , though not before inflation had reduced the tax threshold so low that most poor wage-earners were also benefiting from the tax allowances . |
| 30 | Back room stage so small the performers have to rest their mike stands on the floor in front . |