Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun] [vb base] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | FEW men in public life have so successfully concealed their activities and provoked such controversy and mystery as Roland ‘ Tiny ’ Rowland . |
| 2 | FEW MOMENTS in British cinema cling so bleakly to the memory as that of Alan Bates vomiting copiously behind the settee under the withering gaze of Thora Hird . |
| 3 | How can a country which is so deeply intolerant of sexual differences in real life offer so raucous a welcome to such creatures ? |
| 4 | The learning outcomes in these modules have so much in common that it seems inappropriate to have three teachers teaching them in three separate classrooms . |
| 5 | No people in human history have so consistently encountered so terrible a fate as that of the Jews , whose compact with Jahweh should have preserved them . |
| 6 | ‘ But , sadly , those in Mid Wales have so far proved a ‘ soft touch ’ for hard-nosed developers . ’ |
| 7 | Up to 13 birds in one winter have so far been involved , and they usually arrive between mid-December and mid-January , and remain until March or April . |
| 8 | While it is correct to say that appropriation for purposes of section 3(1) includes the latter sort of act , it does not necessarily follow that no other act can amount to an appropriation and in particular that no act expressly or impliedly authorised by the owner can in any circumstances do so . |