Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That a measure apparently so contrary to noble interests was carried through has encouraged the view that , in the hands of a determined tsar , the Russian State was able to ride roughshod over every class . |
| 2 | Later on , when wafts of sulphurous fumes from the volcano still so frequent that their chariots were constantly on the move , despite having their wheels chocked with stones . |
| 3 | West of the village in Lathkilldale are remains of the lead-mining industry once so important in the Peak District . |
| 4 | Mm , cos mum had Reverend come round , you see cos dad were n't , none of us were religious least of all dad , he could n't do none of it , so we said to , we did n't , we did n't know what vicar to choose cos none of us go to church so me mum said dad used to go to the church where me sister got married to the little Derby and Jones twice a week and Reverend is always there so mum said we 'll have him , dad got on well with him , he liked him , he knew dad , anyway he come round to see mum and I were n't there cos I had to go and sign on , I bloody wished I had been , anyway she said , she told him all about dad and she said I want you tell everybody how brave he was in the war and what a good father he were and a good provider and how he lived for his grandchildren and so on and so on , she said I do n't want no hymns I just want his own organ music all through the service and nothing else and just some , do a couple of prayers , she , so he said right the Lords Prayer will be fine that 'll be nice , well he never said nothing , he said I did n't know John but he said I 've been told he was a good man , he worked in a hospital , which he did , but I mean you 're only like an engineer we were n't really emphasising on that and that was all he said , he played a bit of the organ music before we went in , a bit as we come out and there was about eight bloody prayers and the songs and everything read out and made us sing a hymn ever so disappointed , hardly said anything , hardly play , played his music , no , I was well disappointed about that |
| 5 | You might have to face anger and disgust from your children , though with divorce and family disruption now so commonplace , maybe they 'll just shrug with boredom . |
| 6 | Yeah , well I 've only got the one I 've only got the one erm golly how long have I had that yellow must have had it four years or more I 've only worn it about three times I think it 's erm a telly mac and it 's a yellow one erm and it is a bit longer so all these go underneath it , quite well |
| 7 | He held her eyes as he said it , making her heart skid inside her , the touch of his gaze suddenly so soft , so caressing , that it suffused her entire body with a glow of sensuous pleasure . |
| 8 | I mean sexy little telephone calls between he who will be king and his , is she a mistress , is she a girlfriend , is she merely a friend , but at any event she 's married and her husband 's in the next bedroom as far as we can gather , you know erm do those kind of conversations and would , I mean maybe it 's important to sort of say and Anne probably has this , but Peter might not , I mean when I grew up the Royal Family were a cert sort of image and you might have known about George the Third who was mad , I mean who else was brought up George the Third was mad and Geor an and this guy was a , a drunk and this guy was a a womaniser , this guy was this , but Victoria you know mourned for sixty years or whatever it was , but this Royal Family , I E the , the Royal Family with which I grew up and Anne did were really sweet nice little Windsors who behaved themselves and that was what was , went into our psychic and there was the odd crack about Phil the Great who 's the Queen 's husband , you know and how he perhaps had an eye for the ladies , but there was never any photographs of him being or any evidence that it might have gone further than that particular and basically there was , that any , there was the fact that he was a sailor when he married the Queen anyway so all sailors are like that are n't they ! |
| 9 | What makes the new round of work potentially so profitable is the scope it offers for experiment . |
| 10 | Well I ca , I 'll ask a question then so that will have to be answered . |
| 11 | England under Graham Taylor are a joke already so any further lines are welcome . |
| 12 | LADY DAVERS : Child , prithee do us the favour of taking a turn or two across the room that we may arrive at some degree of certainty whether or no thou art the identical little Pammy formerly so famous for thy tarts and cheesecakes . |
| 13 | Oh god I 've give you a bloody handful now so that was stupid . |
| 14 | Was her falsity really so intact ? |
| 15 | The Miscarriage Association believes that one in three pregnancies end in miscarriage often so early that even the mother is not aware . |
| 16 | Was strauss really so ineffectual in five years ' correspondence with Hofmannsthal about the opera ? |
| 17 | But is the distinction really so easy to make ? |
| 18 | Many modern offerings are hard put to please the eye quite so much . |
| 19 | A person apparently so eager to live life to the full she never left home without an adequate supply of vintage champagne to drink between engagements . |
| 20 | the potato will be on the top anyway so that wo n't matter will it ? |
| 21 | North Korea 's Prime Minister Yon Hyong Muk stepped across a border normally so secure that neither letters nor telephone calls are allowed through . |
| 22 | Buckmaster gave his public smile now so well-known from his pictures in the press . |
| 23 | Probably the only thing is obviously I 've been there a while now so any previous employment and the people that were there are n't there any longer . |
| 24 | The unspoken subtext of Barley 's amusing odyssey in search of Raffles is this : was all western imperialism really so bad , and were not men like Raffles far better rulers than the exploiters , white and brown , who came before and after them ? |
| 25 | His reasoning was impossible to fault , his advice always so sensible . |
| 26 | As unwanted pregnancies can so easily be avoided by abortion and contraception , why is illegitimacy now so high ? |
| 27 | He had been so proud of that sauce now so stale and unappetising . |
| 28 | Was his vanity really so overpowering that he actually believed she gave a damn about him anyway ? |
| 29 | He was invariably escorted by the SS Security Officer , and while the Nazi ogled her , the Dane never so much as looked her way . |
| 30 | Through their sculpture they almost emulated painters by expressing moods , yearnings , inward feelings , and trying and succeeding to embody visionary reflections in line with the Symbolist Movement currently so influential in Europe with its ‘ erudite fancies , complicated nightmares , suave and sinister visions ’ , so picturesquely described by J-K Huysmans , one of the movement 's literary evangelists . |