Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] [pron] [adv] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of ‘ Up In Downsville ’ is so laid-back that it simply wafts around your ears like tobacco smoke and they have an irritating habit of pulling their potential punches for fear of treading on someone 's daisies . |
| 2 | Indeed , some have argued that the ‘ traditionalism of his general philosophy is so strong that it virtually disables him from that critical rationalism which is essential for the appraisal of particular traditions ’ . |
| 3 | We soon reach Hungerford and Rob 's bridge which is so low that he usually gets cramp from bending flat on the boat . |
| 4 | However , the situation is not quite so clear as it initially appears to be : in some earlier studies poly 3-deazaadenylic acid was shown to form unusually stable 1:1 and 1:2 duplexes with poly U ( 13 ) . |
| 5 | This usage is now so prevalent that it hardly conveys anything more than the best that could be imagined . |
| 6 | Indeed , he has subverted the stake-in-the-heart , garlic-and-cross myth and has become so popular that he now has his own New Orleans-based fanclub . |
| 7 | Some of the craters look so fresh that one almost expects the rocks still to be warm . |
| 8 | The pattern is so simple that it hardly seems worth studying . |
| 9 | Not only is colostrum known to be extremely nutritious but it too has special protective properties against illness . |
| 10 | Of course I have to say that er software fails as well sometimes and indeed one of the problems we all have is that with today 's hardware technologies some of the er computers are so fast that it really reaches the bugs rather quicker . |
| 11 | Might it be also true of Jackson 's work that its formalism is so relentless that it actually reveals itself as questioning the parameters within which it operates ? |
| 12 | John tells me , by the way , that the response to his trolleybus venture has been so great that he now plans to do something along similar lines , as you might say , with the railways . |
| 13 | Now , obviously , you know , yo getting the menopause out into the open so that everyone can talk about it , exchange information that that it 's not seen as a as a taboo or something to be particularly fearful of by men or women is n't going to be much good if it just makes everybody worry for er , for for the first half of o o o of their lives and , and then gibber through the second half ! |
| 14 | This vaccination is extremely effective but it only guards against one type of meningitis Mothers should be aware of the symptoms because early diagnosis could mean the difference between life and death . |
| 15 | Also , the intonation screws are too long ; on the bottom E , the screw is so long that it literally digs into the string . |
| 16 | One , with its morbid traits of personalised delusion , chaotic thinking , and bizarre affect , is so self-destructive that it frequently reduces the sufferer to psychological incompetence . |
| 17 | As the Royals have learned to their cost the law is so lax that it actually encourages widespread snooping . |
| 18 | Could somebody please explain to me why it is that a project that was always highly speculative and which now looks like a near disaster should have been so profitable for investors ? |
| 19 | I might 've considered coming into the business if dear Daddy had n't already got Big Brother as a co-director , ready to take over from him , and if he did n't make it so plain that he only tolerates me because I 'm your husband . |
| 20 | He still finds her extremely beautiful and she practically apologises to Pip for all the suffering that she put him through and tells him that she hopes they will still be friends ‘ apart ’ . |
| 21 | Its functioning , including leap years , is so familiar that it sometimes comes as a revelation to researchers into early English local history to learn that there were several calendars in use in the past , each somewhat different from the other , with quite distinct ways of referring to months and days , and with days whose hours varied in length according to the season of the year . |
| 22 | In fact , it is so proud that it now boasts at a European level of the cheap U K labour costs and the lack of workers ' rights . |
| 23 | But measuring banking capacity is so difficult that nobody really knows whether an excess exists |
| 24 | Is it really the case that ordinary mem bers of the public have a hatred of the police so virulent that it completely overbears normal reactions of shock , concern , and compassion ? |
| 25 | One of the first things that struck troops fresh to the Verdun battlefield was the fearful stench of putrefaction ; ‘ so disgusting that it almost gives a certain charm to the odour of gas shells ’ . |
| 26 | Life there is so inexpensive that it just takes longer to get it all done . |
| 27 | It is very effective and almost shocking when you realise that what he is saying makes complete sense and the uselessness of war is so true as it really achieves very little good if any at all . |
| 28 | Dega is so myopic that he never takes his glasses off-there is a nice touch when Dustin holds his hand over his spectacles as he is showered down . |
| 29 | An action is relevantly similar if it too has the properties which constituted one 's reasons for the judgement in the first case . |
| 30 | It is not clear that she currently has any diplomatic status , though there is some evidence that the United Nations may still for some purposes recognise her ambassadorship . |