Example sentences of "so [adv] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 And he pressed his suit so forcibly yet kindly .
2 So right so that 's brilliant so underneath that third how many sixths is it
3 So right so that 's that little job
4 ‘ Alice Muir , ’ he writes , ‘ was a homeopathist and in 1878 treated old Mrs McNeil at the Boathouse in Brodick so successfully that two years later the latter presented her with an engraved tumbler glass . ’
5 She moved slowly , so slowly indeed that for a moment she was alone in the centre of the aisle , a swan gliding on still water abandoned there , waiting to be rescued — creating such emotion in several manly breasts that not everyone noticed that the bride and groom had already reached the altar , waiting the approach of their chief bridesmaid before they could be joined together .
6 So perhaps more instrumental in influencing the spread of environmentalism in England than the writings of apocalyptic ‘ doom-watchers ’ were such factors as the widespread construction of motorways — which , because they were routed around rather than through cities , shattered the peace of so many middle-class localities — and the changes in agricultural technology which altered the ecology and the landscape of extensive areas of rural England .
7 It all seemed so much easier this time round .
8 thank you so much very kind of you .
9 First he had disturbed her senses in that first sweet embrace — and now he was making life difficult by not being there when needed , and appearing so much too late .
10 Then I dressed her up in some things of my own ( oh , so much too big ! ) .
11 One of the great mysteries of our modern free-trading world is why consumer electronics products are so much more expensive in Britain ( and Europe generally ) than they are in the United States .
12 Can I just query the cost of Cloverfield Hospice , I just wondered why that was so much more expensive than the others ?
13 It 's difficult to work out why some of these should be so much more expensive than others is n't it ?
14 Ever so much more expensive living there .
15 It 's important for the foreign traveller to accumulate lots of useless gadgetry and ephemera that they 'd never dream of buying normally , and which makes the whole process of travelling so much more cumbersome and awkward for others .
16 Miss Henrietta 's death had seemed so much more terrible and yet when she ventured to say this she was met with blank looks .
17 It may seem over the top , but that 's because such things seem so much more terrible to a child . ’
18 You obviously have Therese in mind for Adele in the new production of Luxembourg — so much more suitable for her , an older woman — I would have thought you could let poor little Ingrid have her moment of triumph in Gypsy Baron . ’
19 One , the one they choose to worship , is so much more powerful than all the others that He belongs to what is in effect a different category of being .
20 P. He is so much more powerful , and goes for stuff fully .
21 Once DNA was there , it proved to be so much more efficient as a replicator , and so much more powerful in its effects on its own replication , that the original replication system that spawned it was cast off and forgotten .
22 The difficulty is that a recruitment system has to be both a production system and an information system , and this is what makes it so much more complex than personnel records .
23 At first sight it would seem paradoxical that , in the current economic climate , there should be so much more new opera , and so many more genuine efforts to foster it than ever before .
24 We have , just in this fact , an argument that if we had to choose one of the two strategies for the indefinite future we would do better to choose pragmatism , because it is so much more adaptive .
25 ‘ It 's so much more congenial to meet here than in my office at the radio . ’
26 It was so much more congenial than the flat near Victoria — unsuitably dominated by Westminster Cathedral — where she had lived with her mother .
27 David Robson in this paper ( ’ one of the most beautifully written books in years ’ ) was also enthusiastic , as was Jonathan Coe in The Guardian who asked : ‘ Why does Crace feel so much more modern and so much more relevant than writers who clutter their novels with a forest of contemporary references and cultural signposts ? ’
28 This work seems so much more relevant to the training of doctors in a developing country than theoretical exercises in high-technology medicine still promoted in the undergraduate syllabus of many a traditional school .
29 His lyricism takes flight as he remembers waking in the morning to find ‘ a fellow creature beside you ; it makes the world look so much more friendly . ’
30 I had been given a very short time to assimilate the books of poetry and to write the review : a time-limit that would have been almost impossible for me to meet today , so much more sluggish has my mind become ; but I felt that if Eliot thought I could do the job , it was doubtless within my capacity .
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