Example sentences of "it so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor is it so regular that we can trust to it altogether to fix the exact date of any given work . |
| 2 | Swore like a trooper under his breath as the bus swayed through the leafy lanes , saying he could no longer make out the landmarks , that he knew such and such a tree or house was in such and such a place , he 'd passed it so often in the bus , but now could barely see it . |
| 3 | The selectivity of archaeology what makes it so uninteresting . |
| 4 | Told him only Moira F. had seen it so far . |
| 5 | Is it so likely that that man , however much he may have been struck by your beauty and gaiety , Miss Jonathan , would have at once decided to assassinate your future husband ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You can buy some special stuff which freezes it so it comes off more easily . |
| 7 | Fortunately , most of them try one flight and dislike it so much that they avoid flying again . |
| 8 | ‘ And you do it so well . |
| 9 | Choose the protection which you feel best suits you , then train with it so that you become use to any constrictions it causes . |
| 10 | Then when you swing hard at his foot , he lifts it so that your sweep passes underneath it . |
| 11 | Do not bandage too tightly but arrange it so that you can move your ankle sufficiently to use foot techniques . |
| 12 | Harold MacMillan , Prime Minister , might still be saying to the electorate that they had never had it so good — which was true in terms of the change-round from post-war reconstruction , wartime destruction , and the days of depression ; but to someone of Leonard 's background , from Canada , the place was a bore . |
| 13 | Edberg sees the ball so early , hits it so sweetly and executes his shots so effectively , that one suspects that he could easily defy any West Indian or Australian pace attack . |
| 14 | Once you know your daily calorie intake it is easy to adjust it so that you gain or lose weight . |
| 15 | Considering the tenoning half of his design , I modified it so that it could quickly accommodate a different pair of blocks for each differently angled tenon . |
| 16 | Lay it to a depth of at least 25mm ( 1in ) ; rake smooth , then lay each slab in place , lowering it so as not to disturb the mortar bed . |
| 17 | It so happened that the novelist 's wife had a younger brother at this Academy who knew Ivanov . |
| 18 | He would never have had it so . |
| 19 | It is true to this day in England that , if one has learning , one must wear it so lightly that it is unnoticeable . |
| 20 | It so happens that this troublesome question , or complex of questions , is not raised by the piece in Eliot 's selection that I shall take to represent Pound 's criticism at its irreplaceable best . |
| 21 | But Eliot does n't mean it so , as we see from the notorious case that he cites in illustration : |
| 22 | Why was it so regional in character ? |
| 23 | Here was the Labour Party reverting to its old self , a better self , yes , than the monster it became under the demonic spell of Tony Benn ; here was a party responsive once more to its own people , the people it so shamefully betrayed at two successive general elections since 1979 , but a party — as somebody once said of the SDP - ‘ promising a better yesterday ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ If I was him I would probably skip the French , but I would n't talk about it so far ahead . ’ |
| 25 | It will leave it so far with merger agreements in just the US and Japan . |
| 26 | It was the ‘ small ’ things at Uppark that Meg saved and cherished that made it what it so uniquely was — the chair covers , the blankets Prinny pulled up to the portly royal chin , the original wallpapers in the attics where this quiet , remarkable woman worked to such effect . |
| 27 | ‘ Some people said that he 'd have to change his style when he turned professional , but so far he 's stuck to his natural game , and he has n't done badly with it so far . |
| 28 | Margaret Thatcher herself said it so many times in reply to ‘ wet ’ critics that it became known , not very affectionately , as Tina . |
| 29 | But if it is bad news for borrowers , investors have never had it so good . |
| 30 | We were looking forward to gorging ourselves , but the buyer was a restaurateur and his chef had skinned it so cleanly that there was n't enough flesh for a sandwich ) . |