Example sentences of "so [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps in this case the injunction can be ignored since the pattern is so widespread and so instinctively attractive . |
| 2 | Because he was so devilishly attractive that she could n't resist him ? |
| 3 | We 're so jolly rotten at it . |
| 4 | ‘ How can you look a million dollars , be so terrifically successful in business — and yet your personal life seem to be in such a mess ? ’ |
| 5 | He looked for the pole Star on nights so intensely black that you almost had to touch your limbs to make sure they were still there . |
| 6 | Rachel had always enjoyed being a woman , and delighted in her femininity , her sex appeal , the differences that made her so intensely female . |
| 7 | Doubts were expressed in Washington ; but in spite of Griffin 's assertion that the wave of communist risings in Indo-China were not economic , social or ideological , rather they were predominantly nationalistic , he concluded that it was because the Bao Dai government was itself so intensely nationalist that it was worth supporting . |
| 8 | I knew I was being bewitched , laid under a spell so intensely personal , so thrilling , I did not have the power to resist it , or to judge if it were good or evil . |
| 9 | Fergus had been so intensely aware of every separate part of her that it had been a pain and a torment . |
| 10 | She almost wanted to cry , he made her so intensely aware , showed her what ecstasies there might be in store … |
| 11 | Snow had come very early in the year , but all of October had been so intensely cold that no one was really surprised to see such a heavy fall , although there had been no sign of it when they entered the hall . |
| 12 | At the extreme , some nuclear waste was so intensely radioactive that it had to be kept isolated from the human environment for thousands of years . |
| 13 | What the Henry Pratt books ( there is a second in print , Pratt Of The Argus , and a third imminent ) have in common with the rest of Nobbs ' work is his love of running gags and bizarre symmetry , an interest which made Perrin so relentlessly funny and reached its peak in the near-geometric farces of the two Bit Of A Do series . |
| 14 | Having a baby usually means not being able to have a job as well so most young mothers have to make do with the various state benefits they are entitled to . |
| 15 | Therefore there is a logical tendency to preclude from view the social reasons why people are using the land in such a way as to cause excessive soil erosion , and so most conservation policies do not address them at all . |
| 16 | Fats exist in certain quantities in many of the foods normally eaten by the elderly , apart from the obvious ones of butter , margarine , milk and cheese , so most old people on a varied diet are consuming adequate amounts . |
| 17 | For the next decade or so most local authorities stumbled , enthused , muddled and reorganised their secondary schools into a comprehensive form . |
| 18 | In his monumental opus Terra Nostra — certainly one of the dozen or so most important novels to be published in any language since the Second World War — the respected Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes depicted Jesus as surviving the Cross by means of fraudulent crucifixion involving a substitute . |
| 19 | So most important thing about functions , is what sort of functions is it a one-one or a many-one ? |
| 20 | For Maud Gonne , the prospects were not quite so thrillingly clear-cut . |
| 21 | Even if the court can not point to the actual error , nevertheless , if the figure is so extravagantly large or so inadequately small that the only conclusion is that he must have gone wrong somewhere , then the court will interfere in much the same way as the Court of Appeal will interfere with an award of damages if it is a wholly erroneous estimate . |
| 22 | It was quite unheard of for the White House to be so intimately involved in the appointment process so far down the administrative hierarchy . |
| 23 | After the official ceremony the party moved down to the Town Hall , and incidentally how appropriate that the Railway and the Railway Society that have always been so intimately involved with the town should hold its celebration at Bishop 's Castle 's ancient Town Hall with the mayor , district council chairman in attendance . |
| 24 | Even Picasso and Braque , who shared their discoveries so intimately that for a while they came to share a common vision , looked , it will be seen , at Cézanne in different ways . |
| 25 | The pain that tugged at the muscles of his stomach and chest was so intimately hurtful that he knew it was nothing but useless unspent emotion . |
| 26 | Of course , being so intimately concerned with the notion of travel , a degree of mobility may bring more rapid promotion opportunities but unlike other organisations of a similar size , there is no pressure here to relocate — should you decline a move because you are not ready to be uprooted , you will find that your reasons are respected and your prospects unaffected . |
| 27 | It was all so horrifyingly real . |
| 28 | Maria lifted a hand to hit him , but he looked so grimly reluctant that her fingers had uncurled before they reached his chest , touching him lightly before moving up to the lock of black hair that had fallen over his tanned brow . |
| 29 | So presumably two of the armed officers remained guarding this eleven year in bedroom two and two remained covering the kitchen ? |
| 30 | DR PAUL TALALAY , a research scientist at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine , Baltimore , has discovered that broccoli prevents cells from becoming malignant — and so presumably broccoli-eating enthusiasts should have a reduced risk of getting cancer . |