Example sentences of "so [adj] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had no illusions about why her children were so willing to shell out for their mother 's annual pilgrimage . |
| 2 | I think it must have been Tom 's fear from the past , knowing what happened to black people who stepped out of line that made him so afraid to stick up for himself and stand his ground . |
| 3 | Why do people seem to be so anti-gipsy to start out with ? |
| 4 | We talked endlessly — there was so much to catch up on . |
| 5 | The key is not so much to end up with the right plan as to engage in strategic thinking . |
| 6 | A Home Secretary needs one , not so much to stand up to criminals as to stand up to people with damaging non-solutions to crime . |
| 7 | Talking about his selection he said : ‘ I think that most of us look at paintings not so much to find out about them , but to find out about ourselves , for like a great novel or play , a great painting offers us a unique opportunity of investigating our own experiences . ’ |
| 8 | " The autumn gales 'll be on us in a few weeks , and the volunteers wo n't be so easy to come by after that . " |
| 9 | Replacements for your plantation wo n't be so easy to come by in future . " |
| 10 | And in a sense , he actually very neatly defined several different points without getting his knickers in a twist , and wearing different hats it would be so easy to come out with a muddled thing which would end up by being him feeling uncomfortable but him also being part of the Government and the Atomic Energy Authority . |
| 11 | But it is not so easy to legislate out of existence the cultures which produce these practices . |
| 12 | And he knows his next clanger will trigger yet another repeat showing — as well as threatening the first-team place he has worked so hard to hold down at table-topping Blackburn . |
| 13 | It 's important not to lose your security of tenure in council accommodation — which is so hard to come by in the first place — by making yourself " voluntarily homeless ' . |
| 14 | But they can be incredibly frustrating when something goes wrong because it 's so hard to get down to a nitty gritty level to sort out your problems . |
| 15 | I did n't really stop to look earlier — I was just so glad to get out of the weather . ’ |
| 16 | Ca n't think what took you so long to get around to it , old chap , ’ Aubrey said . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm sorry we 've taken so long to get round to you , Mrs Grogan , but we 've been very busy . |
| 18 | ‘ They take so long to get back to pupils , ’ was one comment . |
| 19 | This is one reason why its taken me so long to find out about this mailing list . |
| 20 | Because , while being regressed , the patient is well aware of his or her present-day persona in addition to the previous one , Myra found it very distressing to think that she had been so happy to go along with all Hugh 's demands . |
| 21 | Why are you so reluctant to look back at your very early Crucifixions ? |
| 22 | The safety factor was also important as older people were not so able to jump out of the way of stock or swinging gates . |
| 23 | These patients can experience many kinds of problems when in a different environment such as increased stiffening of the back and limbs due to lack of exercise because they find it so difficult to get out of the hospital chair ; and incontinence for the same reason . |
| 24 | You 'd be so nice to wake up with … |
| 25 | They are so keen to get on with it that they can be guaranteed to see the rabbit before any human and are fast off the mark . |