Example sentences of "[vb -s] so [adv] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is inevitable that we think of children at Christmas but , as Father John McCullagh writes so movingly on this page , our thoughts should not stop there . |
| 2 | One who deviates so manifestly from these rules as to drive recklessly ought to realize — because the driving test requires a driver to realize — that there is a considerable risk of an accident . |
| 3 | It takes so long for another type to convince the B t 's that it is z = 0 , that any long run benefit from this is outweighed by the cost , of acquiring such a reputation . |
| 4 | The opposition of Scipio Nasica to the destruction of Carthage figures so prominently in this account by Diodorus — and therefore by Posidonius — because he was thought to have foreseen the possibility of civil war in Rome if Carthage were to be eliminated : " but once the rival city was destroyed , it was only too evident that there would be civil war at home and that hatred for the governing power would spring up among all the allies because of the rapacity and lawlessness to which the Roman magistrates would subject them " ( 34.33.5 transl . |
| 5 | The open-back principle works so well in this design that the usual unremitting in-head claustrophobia is less apparent . |