Example sentences of "[noun sg] so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gentle replied that he would make a Gauguin so fine the artist himself would have wept to see it . |
| 2 | ‘ We are ’ he said later , ‘ in danger of building so many mills and factories on the river 's bank … that the stream will be all used up and its bed dry . ’ |
| 3 | It stood about a quarter of a mile from the house in a triple circle of beech trees , an isolated building so small and perfect that it looked like an architect 's model precisely set in a fabricated landscape , or an elegant ecclesiastical folly , justifying itself only by its classical purity , as distanced from religion as it was from life . |
| 4 | Having him there at the beginning was simply a stroke of luck so colossal that Henry 's natural pessimism was trying to turn it into a disaster . |
| 5 | 7.7.9.2 to pay to the Landlord on demand with Interest the amount of such insurance money so irrecoverable in which event the provisions of clauses 7.5 and 7.6 shall apply ] It is not unreasonable for a lease to contain a provision that the tenant will pay for the reinstatement of premises where insurance has been vitiated subject to a limitation being placed on the persons who can trigger this provision and possibly subject to the tenant being allowed to receive the payable insurance money as the reinstatement progresses . |
| 6 | 7.7.9.2 To pay to the Landlord on demand with Interest ( where the Landlord has rebuilt and reinstated the Premises out of its own money ) the amount of such insurance money so irrecoverable in which event the provisions of clauses 7.5 and 7.6 shall apply and clause 7.7.9 should contain the following amendment : … anyone at the Premises expressly or by implication with the Tenant 's authority while under the Tenant 's control and in the employment of the Tenant wholly or partially irrecoverable … 7.8 Increase or decrease of the Centre If at any time during the Term the Centre shall be increased or decreased on a permanent basis the Insurance Rent Percentage shall be varied with effect from the first premium or additional premium payable in respect of a period after such a change by agreement between the parties or in default of agreement within [ 3 ] months of the first proposal for variation made by the Landlord in such a manner as shall be determined to be fair and reasonable in the light of the event in question by the Surveyor acting as an expert and not as an arbitrator This requires no comment . |
| 7 | It was the same quality that made his fascination with money so inoffensive . |
| 8 | And er half heatedly she decided she ought , she could n't have any more children you know she 'd , I do n't think it was money so much that she thought she 'd got enough and somebody told her about this Slippery Elm , well you could get a Slippery Elm drink , you know you know these milky foods if you 've got a poor tummy , that that can , er she bought a tin of this Slippery Elm drink , and she drunk gallons of it and it was doing her good and she thought er she thought it would n't , she 'd gone wrong you see . |
| 9 | I mean it 's only fair it 's not we 're not talking about huge wages but for Gwynedd which is a low wage area they were reasonable and they worked for them too you know but but they were n't complaining about the money so much as the principle . |
| 10 | I think Craven Arms , the thing Craven Arms actually want money so much as support . |
| 11 | The Secretary of State says no more money so that 's that . |
| 12 | ‘ With money so tight and nothing is heard from local communities the facility could be lost by stealth . |
| 13 | Why are the College and also the A. S. M. so obsessed by finance ? |
| 14 | The gravity of Jupiter crushes its hydrogen so much that pressures of this magnitude might occur at the centre of the planet , forming metallic hydrogen which undergoes fusion thereby generating heat within it . |
| 15 | What makes this particular story so tragic is that while Jeremy fought to survive , no doubt focusing his efforts on the hope that we were looking for him , a succession of minor acts of negligence , committed by both the Spanish authorities and the British Consul , conspired to delay a proper search being mounted . |
| 16 | And why was their love story so special ? |
| 17 | It is based on a true story so outrageous that it would never in a million years have passed muster as fiction . |
| 18 | In the court case of June 1790 , Henry Cecil was awarded £1000 damages and a divorce , but what makes the whole story so remarkable is that by this time he was already secretly remarried . |
| 19 | B. Chrystal will be asked to set up a meeting under the auspices of the Village Association in connection with the noise and vandalism so prevalent around the school annexe , village hall , public part etc . |
| 20 | In this position , with white-coated radiographers scuttling about snapping X-ray plates into some dark slot beneath me , I allowed myself to consider progress so fat . |
| 21 | It was like a slap in the face , the insult so unexpected , and the revelation of what he had really thought of her all along was so hurtful , so callous that she went rigid in his arms , white with stiff dignity , eyes brilliant with pain . |
| 22 | The pace of ideation is for the most part so great that a more formal procedure of idea-handling would be obstructive and pointless . |
| 23 | The most obvious moral interpretation of the assimilation of monk and merchant does not lie in the drawing down of the merchant to the level of the monk so much as in showing the monk to be transgressing the bounds of his special profession by entering into the commercial market place to procure a whore for himself . |
| 24 | One must stand in awe of the scientist so Promethean that a single obscenity is all that is needed to clarify and educate . |
| 25 | Beyond the rail , reached by a stairway so steep that it was almost a ladder , was the main lower level . |
| 26 | However , it is not necessarily the immediate reply which influences decision so much as the well-considered facts succinctly presented . |
| 27 | The latter was applying a social policy on which reasonable men could differ ; it had decided against differential rating and this was not a decision so unreasonable that no reasonable corporation could come to it . |
| 28 | ‘ The main problem is that the illness makes her foodpipe so sore that she drinks only milk and rarely eats solids . |
| 29 | Yet Lord Pugh despises sensual gratification so much , I hear , he had his taste buds excised . |
| 30 | Urgency went from his wing-beats , the course he had set from the Park so many weeks before now weakened and drifted . |