Example sentences of "so [vb pp] [conj] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 It might be thought reasonable to treat all cases of NSU so diagnosed when they initially present to the clinic as if they had a sexually transmitted disease and prescribe appropriate antibiotics , and , indeed , this is common practice in most clinics .
2 It was obviously old , but so corroded that it almost fell to pieces in my hand .
3 Before the worst was over and the pound began to depreciate again , some twenty per cent of them had gone for ever , and a further ten per cent were so weakened that they too shut down in the next two years .
4 The glass is so smeared that it hardly counts as a reflective surface .
5 Theda decided , so relieved that she barely took in the poor quality of his attire , thinking only that the delay must have been made more acceptable to him by a lengthy sojourn in the tap-room .
6 In Word the simplest memory is the ‘ scrap ’ — so called because it usually contains scraps of text .
7 And I , foolish man , felt so rebuffed that I hardly ever tried to go through the barriers .
8 If your life is so rushed that you only have five to ten minutes for lunch , and your body knows that you have to consume at least 300–400 calories in order to make it through until the evening , it is going to look for a very convenient solution , and that means , high calorie , low volume food that is readily available , such as a chunky cheese sandwich , or worse still , a chocolate bar .
9 On the one hand , there will be those whose belief in the concept is so definite and so fixed that they almost allow it to rule their lives .
10 Ana cantered to the side and began a beautifully controlled walk to circle the barn , the horse stepping high and stately , back again to the beautiful dancing movement , and Maggie was so entranced that she never moved .
11 Although the movie 's premise appears to stretch the limits of the imagination , Robbins 's performance is so assured that he deftly sidesteps moments when the plot could veer towards conspiracy paranoia .
12 Her passion leapt to meet his , and she clung to him , her mouth dragging on his in a meeting so inflamed that she almost lost consciousness as dizziness swept through her brain .
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