Example sentences of "a [noun] so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eagle 's Nest Direct was the first Very Severe rock climb in the British Isles and a route so serious then that to contemplate leading it at that time of primitive rope technique meant you also contemplated death . |
| 2 | He was trying to pick her up , of course , but any Wren new to the flotilla must expect to be fair game , she acknowledged , especially in a base so isolated , where women were outnumbered by fifty to one . |
| 3 | There was much protest from the anti-nuclear movements , and more unease because the Americans insisted on a base so near to a densely populated region with Glasgow at its heart . |
| 4 | ‘ Because I became a sister so young , I suppose I did have high expectations of myself . |
| 5 | Buttons was played by a young Tommy Steele and Ken was Portia , a sister so ugly that he almost frightened himself every time he looked in the mirror . |
| 6 | It was a sa so big that it was almost a lake . |
| 7 | He heard evidence from the newspaper which undermined the applicant 's evidence , and decided that there was not " a case so clear as to be beyond argument a case to answer " . |
| 8 | How about have a bit so that bit |
| 9 | Under these acts , the Alkali and Clean Air Inspectorate was responsible for ensuring that the emission of some pollution from industry was no more than ‘ practicably reasonable ’ , a level so ambiguous and vague and capable of numerous interpretations by corporate lawyers that the actual amount of pollution was frequently allowed to rise above a level found tolerable by local residents . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This is a clear example of the third basic kind of doubt , a kind so common that it qualifies as the twentieth-century doubt par excellence . |
| 12 | With their teams of lawyers , accountants and company agents , and able to transfer money at the push of a computer button , the launderers dodge through the maze of the different countries ' jurisdictions creating a trail so complex that investigators , never mind the banks , find it almost impossible to spot what is going on . |
| 13 | The men it seems , were utterly overwhelmed by the need to be thus entreated and made a response so gallant , ( alas , unrecorded ) that the ladies in return ( on June 26th ) offered the ‘ Ladies ’ Cup ’ trophy ‘ in recognition of the kindnesses received ’ . |
| 14 | Beyond the rail , reached by a stairway so steep that it was almost a ladder , was the main lower level . |
| 15 | My hands are of your colour , but I shame To wear a heart so white . |
| 16 | There was even a small river tumbling over the edge in a waterfall so wind-whipped that it reached the ground as rain . |
| 17 | One jerk , one shudder , one small loss of control and it would spill over into a chaos so terrible that it could only end in death . |
| 18 | We looked in the area of the fault and indeed , there was one needle that had a latch so stiff that it could n't open freely and also got stuck when you pushed it right back . |
| 19 | There is a Biblical cadence in the last words he shares with his mother : ‘ Wherever there 's a fight so hungry people can eat , I 'll be there . |
| 20 | They wondered why they were asked if they could stand heights and naturally no one admitted to such a weakness so seven volunteers were picked to appear in Les Jambes de la Femme . |
| 21 | It was a look so burning and intense that it had left her fearful and uncertain , and it was only by immersing herself in paperwork that she had been able to recapture some of her habitual calm . |
| 22 | HAMLET , with his doublet all unbraced , no hat upon his head , his stockings fouled , ungartered and down-gyred to his ankle , pale as his shirt , his knees knocking each other … and with a look so piteous , he takes her by the wrist and holds her hard , then he goes to the length of his arm , and with his other hand over his brow , falls to such perusal of her face as he would draw it … |
| 23 | Her eyes were on Theda 's in a look so compelling that Theda felt as if her mind were being dragged out to be read . |
| 24 | They were half open , silently fixing her in a look so intense and piercing that she felt caught in it , as if hypnotized . |
| 25 | She bit her lip , crumpling the note in her hand , and into her eyes came a look so desolate that Taggy 's heart contracted . |
| 26 | She turned on me a look so cold , so calculating , that I almost shrank from her . |
| 27 | Occasionally , he took his hand off the gear lever and reached out for hers , and sometimes he glanced towards her with a look so full of tenderness that she felt she could weep for joy . |
| 28 | He already knew , from collision with it , that the very next zone was of a frigidity so intense that it too would burn like fire . |
| 29 | Gentle replied that he would make a Gauguin so fine the artist himself would have wept to see it . |
| 30 | Above the parlour is the King 's Bedroom because George 1 , coming back from one of his constant visits to Hanover — he was a Hanoverian and spoke little English — was caught in a storm so violent that his ship was driven ashore on Camber Sands close by Rye . |