Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I said , Goreng had to shoot some after a desertion so large that it could not possibly be ascribed to the category of MIAS . |
| 2 | The matches are made of a wood so flimsy that it reminds me of the balsa with which I tried , unsuccessfully , to build model aeroplanes . |
| 3 | He was a victim of a land so accustomed to blaming goalkeepers that deep in his heart he even began to blame himself . |
| 4 | Bright evening sunlight glared through the windscreen , dazzling her after the gloom , and she raised a hand to shade her eyes just as Luke Calder turned the car into the road , cutting in front of a lorry so close that her stomach lurched . |
| 5 | What does it take to begin to understand and respect the ways of a culture so different from one 's own ? |
| 6 | And everybody there at that table knew that in the case of Shirley Harper 's mother , the phrase ‘ she does n't get out much ’ conveyed the distilled essence of a withdrawal so extreme that the term agoraphobia would hardly do it justice . |
| 7 | He already knew , from collision with it , that the very next zone was of a frigidity so intense that it too would burn like fire . |
| 8 | Flora , always spoilt , is never lonely — until at the last she has the frightening experience of seeing herself as one pair of hostile eyes saw her : the eyes of a person so ill-conditioned as to sent her an anonymous letter , and yet a painter of distinction . |
| 9 | So but nevertheless we will look at a little bit at those peripheral things , but we 're going to concentrate mainly on the design and on the delivery of a presentation so that 's what we want to what we want to look at over the next two days . |
| 10 | We visited our farming cousins and enjoyed the delights of a life so different from our own . |
| 11 | Yet these will hardly bear the weight of a theory so grand as the fusion of legacy and trust . |
| 12 | In front of a consequence so stark the deepest political thinkers recoiled . |
| 13 | This , after all , was the Wolfqueen , the last of a lineage so old that its beginnings were wreathed in legend and lore and magic . |
| 14 | I started off qua , er quarter of an hour so half ha , it was only one of these things that goes over the top . |
| 15 | This must be the product of a great conspiracy , on a scale so immense and of an infamy so black as to dwarf any previous such venture in the history of man . ’ |
| 16 | He is also in charge of an economy so large that it makes a real difference to world trade and to British economic fortunes in particular . |
| 17 | Part of the oddness of her appearance , he realized , came from the fact that she did n't look like a woman so much as a rather inept female impersonator . |
| 18 | And Fenna awaited her thanks for a journey so beautiful and so unique , the gifts that only he could offer her . |
| 19 | It once belonged to Isambard Kingdom Brunel and is extraordinarily large for a man so small . |
| 20 | Harold Wilson was , for a man so seasoned in the ups and downs of public life , incredibly sensitive . |
| 21 | Even compassion for a man so much at the mercy of his physical urges . |
| 22 | Composers scored their music for the forces that were available , and David Wulstan is surely correct in perceiving that the recognition of evolutions and innovations in the performing medium may contribute to the establishment of a chronology for a composer so long-lived as Byrd . |
| 23 | After the trade wars with the West over cars and electronic goods , who can tell what that might mean for a country so dependent on trade ? |
| 24 | on saving education , he said that I supposed to get the six teachers , he said I 'm gon na get rid of five he said and if I possible can I 'm going to make it four , that got ta remember those of you who are on protected salaries erm you again the pay and a half other members of staff and he said he wanted voluntary redundancies and early retirements where possible , you know , and also he had n't supposed to tell for a month so this will come out later in the year |
| 25 | For a poet so hostile to Virgil to discover that in extremis only Virgil had foreseen and foresuffered his predicament , and thereby eased it — this surely constitutes a very poignant moment in literary history , and in a history rather larger than ‘ literary ’ may suggest . |
| 26 | It was a great escape for a team so used to getting caught , but Rough and his fellow revellers chanced their luck and noisily ordered room-service when they got back to the hotel . |
| 27 | The garden was really too small for a dog so big . |
| 28 | Balanced against this view one might consider the limited liability offered through trading as a company so advantageous in the event of the business failing that a company is the preferred form of trading . |
| 29 | How does one suspend one 's prejudices about a place so familiar as a school ? |
| 30 | Though with hands , lips , and tongue , and an even more potent weapon , he stormed her defences , ravishing her to his heart 's content , filling her with a delight so intense that each climax was like a small death . |