Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is so odd , though , is that Lewis was tempted to argue the faith , to analyse and defend it in a manner at once so roughshod and so cerebral when it had come to him by quite other means . |
| 2 | The judgement is ‘ performed so constantly and so quick , that we take that for the perception of our sensation which is an idea formed by our judgment ’ . |
| 3 | Monday morning : it was nearly ten o'clock but so grey and overcast that the light was switched on in the kitchen in Marie 's house . |
| 4 | Dunhill 's chairman , Lord Douro ( the future Duke of Wellington ) , was on holiday yesterday and so unable to comment on rumours that Sarajane Hoare will act as Lagerfeld 's assistant . |
| 5 | Like some fantastic prison , where you could drink so deeply and so long that you forgot your bondage . |
| 6 | The orbit will be circular and the Moon will be about 1½ times as far away as it is now and so total solar eclipses will not occur . |
| 7 | The river meanders have changed position often and so wide floodplains have formed from gravel , sand and mud which has been deposited on the inside edge of each meander . |
| 8 | Indeed , she walked so far and so long that she was too tired to write anything at all upon her return and did not in fact send a reply until the following day . |
| 9 | But in the days before television and radio , almost before phonograph records , how did the music spread so far and so wide ? |
| 10 | So far and so good . |
| 11 | But this was not the main reason why women like Mina give birth so frequently or so young . |
| 12 | If , as usually should be the case , the courts of [ England ] decide to return the child to the jurisdiction of the courts of [ Australia ] , the latter courts will be in no way inhibited from giving permission for the child to return to [ England ] or indeed becoming settled there and so subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of that country . |
| 13 | If , as usually should be the case , the courts of country B decide to return the child to the jurisdiction of the courts of country A , the latter courts will be in no way inhibited from giving permission for the child to return to country B or indeed becoming settled there and so subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of that country . |
| 14 | They were Spitfires , dead ahead and so close it was impossible , coming directly at him . |