Example sentences of "[noun pl] so [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the sailing date kept being put back : first for lack of volunteers , then because of uncertainty about the activities of ubiquitous Francis Drake — who disliked other privateers poaching prizes he regarded as his own — and finally for a wealth of reasons so small that Ann began to suspect that they were nothing more than a smoke screen , to hide her husband 's ever-increasing infatuation with Miss Jennifer Gristy . |
| 2 | He can regard his task as done when he has arrived at entities so simple that they can safely be handed over to physicists . |
| 3 | But that had been seven months ago , a chill morning in mid-February , when the bushes which screened the canal walk from the neighbouring council estate had been tangled thickets of lifeless thorn ; when the branches of the ash trees had been black with buds so tight that it seemed impossible they could ever crack into greenness ; and the thin denuded wands of willow , drooping over the canal , had cut delicate feathers on the quickening stream . |
| 4 | A day 's racing in the 100 mile Wye race involves paddling continuously for over 5 hours so physical and mental preparation are essential . |
| 5 | Will he encourage his right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer to understand that the company car is not a tax-avoidance weapon but an essential tool of British industry and that , if we are to have a strong home-based industry , we do not need taxes so high that Jaguar and Rolls-Royce lose money ? |
| 6 | His shows are serious and grown-up , by his lights , and they certainly have storylines so odd as to make The Ring look like a sit-com . |
| 7 | Has it been an interesting experience then for you all seeing artists so close and at work ? |
| 8 | The thing that makes British museums and galleries so exciting and unique is that , unlike American ones , they have a duty to collect not just the high spots of any period , but the average , sometimes even the bad , works of art which represent the context from which the great works of art arose . |
| 9 | Investigation of town plans reveals that many cities were growing at this time ; the records reveal increasing long-distance trade ; in the Mediterranean there was a growth of the commerce of the Italian cities so striking that Professor Lopez has labelled it and its northern counterpart ‘ the commercial revolution ’ . |
| 10 | Suppliers grumble that GE keeps their margins on contracts so thin that they have to cut corners to fulfil them . |
| 11 | Then abruptly he took one pointing nipple between his lips , pulling on it , and she gasped as a streak of fire ran through her , and his hands grew urgent , the thrusting caresses of his long fingers so expert that fulfilment soon came flooding in shock-waves which surged through her entire body . |
| 12 | Whatever , once the battles were over and the cacique 's tribe had won , the man made Balboa a gift — a quantity of gold ornaments so gaudy and so valuable that squabbling broke out among the Spaniards as to who should have which piece , how much the minor colonial leaders should get , how much Balboa himself should receive . |
| 13 | His sons were there and so was a concourse of knights so huge that it reminded men of his Coronation . |
| 14 | Harry clenched his teeth so hard that the stem of his clay pipe broke , and he had to spit the bits into the hearth . |
| 15 | He felt wretched , in fact at times so miserable that he wanted to laugh out loud . |
| 16 | Trading in dammars , incensewood and rattans sometimes yields financial returns so high that the people abandon cultivation in its favour . |
| 17 | Ali was so mean that he was unlikely to buy advertising space , even for a religious edict , and , anyway , he had clearly found Robert 's words so offensive that he had , so far , been incapable of repeating them to anyone . |
| 18 | It was a song with everything : baroque references , long sombre organ solos , and words so opaque that they could mean all things to all people , unless they actually asked what they meant-which was , unless one was very stoned , nothing which was why , for eleven weeks , during that summer it was high in the charts . |
| 19 | In the late Republic and early Empire , political figures ( and later the Emperor ) attempted to increase the number and variety of creatures , even including criminals in these vast , bloody spectacles so horrific and disgusting to modern man . |
| 20 | Bon Jovi never did dirty their songs with real spunk , anger or despair , on in fact any emotion that was n't packaged up in stadium size , third-hand slogans with melodies so open and bare they sound as if they 've caught sunstroke in the New Jersey heat , and nothing 's changed . |
| 21 | We peel our way down the hierarchy , until we reach units so simple that , for everyday purposes , we no longer feel the need to ask questions about them . |
| 22 | New care management systems of assessment without provision do not rest easily with training which has equipped the worker to provide direct care , and there is some evidence that workers find the disincentives so great that they will resign from such posts ( Huxley and Kerfoot , 1992 ) . |
| 23 | I just can not stand lack of consideration for others : shown by people who park their cars so close that you have to slide in sideways — cleaning both cars with your clothes as you squeeze through the 2in space left for opening the door . |
| 24 | The tactical value of Velcro , jock straps scented with Chanel No.5 , the pitfalls of mixed rugby , the Exiles ' disease chronicus Taffyitis — there is information here for the most esoteric taste , not to mention pictures so surreal that Magritte ( a minor Belgian prop ) would be proud to own them . |
| 25 | They said of Dr Barnard that from fragments so minuscule as almost to deceive a magnifying glass he could reconstitute a bomb to the point of identifying the factory that made its components and the man who assembled it . |
| 26 | Here , too , the features were large , and clumsily applied : a nose like a ridge of clay , lips that recalled a Nubian 's , though set in a bitter line ; a protruding blue chin and ears so prominent that they covered half the sides of his head . |
| 27 | Better to drive a bit farther , down in to lower Normandy and the beautiful Vallée d'Auge , past old Norman farms and manors , through country thick with apple trees , and pastures so opulent and green that unless you have seen some of the raw , rebuilt little towns , it is hard to believe in the terrible devastation of only fifteen years ago . |
| 28 | I saw them through The Fat Controller 's eyes — they were gauche and dowdy , crammed into suitings so ill-fitting that they looked like bolsters stuffed into pillow cases . |
| 29 | If he is afraid of compromising himself in the eyes of Messrs Goupil and Co by keeping in touch with me , is his position with those gentlemen so shaky and unstable that he is obliged to be so careful ? ’ |
| 30 | I was aware I was staggering slightly , lurching sporadically into Jamie or the girl , but there was n't a great deal I could do about it ; I felt rather like one of those ancient dinosaurs so huge that they had a virtually separate brain to control their back legs . |