Example sentences of "of [art] [noun] so [adj] " in BNC.
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31 | I 've never felt the mystery of the future so much as here . |
32 | 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 . |
33 | He was a victim of a land so accustomed to blaming goalkeepers that deep in his heart he even began to blame himself . |
34 | 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 . |
35 | What does it take to begin to understand and respect the ways of a culture so different from one 's own ? |
36 | 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 . |
37 | 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 . |
38 | 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 . |
39 | 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 . |
40 | Calcium and magnesium salts may then be added to partly catalyse conversion of a acids so pre-empting the boiling reactions . |
41 | We visited our farming cousins and enjoyed the delights of a life so different from our own . |
42 | Yet these will hardly bear the weight of a theory so grand as the fusion of legacy and trust . |
43 | In front of a consequence so stark the deepest political thinkers recoiled . |
44 | This , after all , was the Wolfqueen , the last of a lineage so old that its beginnings were wreathed in legend and lore and magic . |
45 | We know of no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodic fits of morality |
46 | I know of no religion so fundamentalist as to dispute the facts up to this point . |
47 | I started off qua , er quarter of an hour so half ha , it was only one of these things that goes over the top . |
48 | 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 . ’ |
49 | 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 . |