Example sentences of "[conj] so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This polarisation causes the debate to stall , but in a world where unemployment is unlikely to fall fast or far and where so much work needs doing the idea may be worth exploring further . |
| 2 | As Dorothy Hardisty wrote in her journal , ‘ … such failures exist where so great an upheaval has taken place , and it was not to be expected that the Movement 's records should be free from shadows . ’ |
| 3 | If the great social security businesses can be turned into successful , free-standing executive agencies , the problem will have been cracked — the Next Steps reforms will have worked where so many attempts at change faltered . |
| 4 | Of course , we all had to admit that the 25SE was built well , using ‘ proper ’ looking materials , components and hardware , something the Americans are so expert at and where so many British amp manufacturers fall down . |
| 5 | It is a tribute to his determination over his 22 years that he has achieved where so many before him have failed . |
| 6 | ‘ Cope ’ succeeds where so many suck because it 's such a great blend of US and UK cultures . |
| 7 | Normally I 'd be reaching for ‘ annihilate ’ button when faced with such an ‘ aware ’ and ‘ right-on ’ selection of topics but Leatherface succeed where so many others have failed by virtue of the tuneful tempestuousness of their music , an assault with melody , muscle and sheer conviction which is irresistible , and the fact that Frankie Stubbs never sounds like a po-faced preacher — unlike a certain other native of the North-East whose name I can hardly type without sending my blood-pressure into the red . |
| 8 | Who , they asked each other , was this newcomer , who had succeeded where so many others had failed ? |
| 9 | It seemed as if , after eighteen months of complete stalemate on the Western Front , with neither side able to make a breakthrough , the subordinate German commanders at Verdun had lost confidence to succeed where so many others had failed . |
| 10 | Aggregate data do not , of course , allow us to draw any inferences about the behaviour of individual authorities which give rise to these findings , particularly where so few cases are often involved . |
| 11 | Faced with fierce competition , many of the country 's 380 or so small and medium-sized banks will merge or be taken over . |
| 12 | At the time of purchase the fragments were erroneously assembled into a sea battle , but reassembly of the forty or so small pieces has revealed a land battle scene , the only one known painted on a papyrus , substantially preserved in two areas . |
| 13 | A simplified version of this role also distinguished the 500 or so small market towns with a population of between 600 and 1,500 inhabitants from the mere villages . |
| 14 | The Susweca Lounge consisted of thirty or so small round tables on an enormous covered veranda built on stilts over the water . |
| 15 | The village boasted a fleet of a dozen or so small fishing boats , which Ashley had seen setting sail at night and returning with their slippery silver haul in the mornings . |
| 16 | Example 18 is one of the fifteen or so melodic fragments which make up the piece : |
| 17 | For example , if the proton-neutron mass difference were not about twice the mass of the electron , one would not obtain the couple of hundred or so stable nucleides that make up the elements and are the basis of chemistry and biology . |
| 18 | Driving away into the city streets , she 'd never felt so alone or so friendless in her entire life . |
| 19 | Secondly , the new research and technology law itself singles out 10 or so second-priority sectors worthy of attention . |
| 20 | The thirty or so largest groups accounted for about seventy per cent of the total population in the 1948 census . |
| 21 | Anyone in Hong Kong with a problem — be it so trivial as to know which horse to place a bet on , or so crucial as to know whom to marry — can ask the god Won Tai Sin , whose temple is to be found in the middle of a vast housing estate in north Kowloon , and who came to fame by turning boulders into sheep . |
| 22 | To her right the blind yellowstone wall of another tall building rose majestically — a perfect backdrop for the dozen or so pink-clothed tables , laid for morning coffee , their pristine china no whiter than the latticed chairs which surrounded them . |
| 23 | Suddenly she rose from the post , some 250 feet from me , and with a dozen or so leisurely beats of her magnificent wings she was angling in to land on my glove and devour her prize ! |
| 24 | Various methods are used , depending on market circumstances — the ‘ tap ’ method , where stock is issued gradually in order not to flood the market and depress the price ; the ‘ tender ’ method , where institutions are invited to tender for a given issue ; and the ‘ auction ’ method , where stock is sold to the highest bidders among the twenty or so gilt-edged market makers ( GEMMs ) . |
| 25 | The hunters are the half dozen or so experienced adult males in the group . |
| 26 | Special provision should be made for the 2,000 or so full-time adult education staff , including LEA organizers , along the lines suggested in the first Haycocks Report . |
| 27 | Others were signed with names of characters , either characters from films or works of fiction , or the kind of people that you meet in our kind of life in our kind of city , and they 're so large , or so strong , or so infamous , that you say of them , she 's a real character . |
| 28 | It would , for example , be no defence for the seller to say that his farm fertiliser was perfectly safe and effective when applied in the right concentration ( at the right time of the year ) if the instructions supplied with the fertiliser stated in error the wrong concentration , whether too weak to be effective or so strong as to kill the crops . |
| 29 | If the control knobs had been placed half an inch or so higher then the selector could be placed below them , thus bringing it nearer to the player 's right hand . |
| 30 | Temperatures will fall to around minus two or three celsius , that 's twenty seven fahrenheit , but a degree or so higher along the coast . |