Example sentences of "so [adj] [to-vb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've got so little to go on . ’ |
| 2 | Reporters like Terry Lewis needed so little to go on to formulate a story ; he would n't even have to name Luke Calder , just make some veiled references to his identity that could be enough to discredit him . |
| 3 | There seemed to be so little mutual interest , so little to build on . |
| 4 | It 's so annoying to end up , never at a pub . |
| 5 | She had no illusions about why her children were so willing to shell out for their mother 's annual pilgrimage . |
| 6 | If people were n't sure of getting the victim for their money they would n't be so willing to pay up . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Why do people seem to be so anti-gipsy to start out with ? |
| 9 | Would it be so wrong to give in ? argued the voices in her head . |
| 10 | Having done so much to point up the plight of blacks in the 1960s and 1970s , Ali reduced himself to little more than a comic figure in much the same way as Johnson had . |
| 11 | ‘ I have to be quite hard on her sometimes because I have so much to sort out I ca n't let myself become depressed about it too . |
| 12 | so much to go in |
| 13 | Corinth , which had done so much to bring on the war by urging on Sparta , was more damaged by it , and more permanently , than any other city . |
| 14 | SIR — Maurice Weaver is wrong to suggest that James Callaghan 's phrase ‘ Crisis , what crisis ? ’ , which did so much to bring down Labour in 1979 , was simply a misleading paraphrase by the tabloids ( April 6 ) . |
| 15 | The trouble is there 's so much to wade through . ’ |
| 16 | We talked endlessly — there was so much to catch up on . |
| 17 | The Duchess of Richmond and Gordon has done so much to build up these fine International Dressage Championships . |
| 18 | The key is not so much to end up with the right plan as to engage in strategic thinking . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | There 's so much that one does n't know about places and people , so much to find out . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | But to this day I have nightmares in which I have to go back to school , and I 'm so relieved to wake up and find that it was only a dream . |
| 23 | Right : It 's so easy to sit back and relax in this beautiful conservatory from Durabuild . |
| 24 | It would be so easy to give up the battle she 'd been waging against him , simply to lay down her arms and give herself up to the ecstasy of possession . |
| 25 | It would be so easy to give in , simply to take what was on offer . |
| 26 | It was easy enough to get the front door open one-handed , not so easy to switch on the hall light with no hands at all . |
| 27 | While gonadal material can easily be obtained from mice , testicular samples for the study of human meiosis are not so easy to come by . |
| 28 | " 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 . " |
| 29 | Replacements for your plantation wo n't be so easy to come by in future . " |
| 30 | 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 . |