Example sentences of "so [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never before had I heard him , or — anyone else for that matter , sound so emphatic in praise of my written work . |
| 2 | Why are the Government so specific on income tax and so shifty on VAT ? |
| 3 | Though in West Germany they do not present the politically balanced slate so dear to advocates of the STV , they could easily be used to that end . |
| 4 | Ye fields , ye scenes so dear to Lubin 's eye , |
| 5 | Apart from personal interviews , the physical layout of a room is important for any group work ; chairs with desks in serried rows for example are not so conducive to discussion as chairs arranged in a circle or round a central table . |
| 6 | One type of authoritarian rule had been followed by another , not allowing for that kind of unsettling liberalization which is so conducive to uprisings among minorities . |
| 7 | ‘ Perhaps because I was so friendly with Faith and never with her . |
| 8 | That may be because people have got so used to killings : after the murder of Lalith Athulathmudali , one of Sri Lanka 's two main opposition leaders , on April 23rd , the assassination of the president who some suspected of involvement in his rival 's killing was no great surprise . |
| 9 | and she said she , its cos she said , she said of course if its because she 's so used to Joe he would of , I said yeah but he went over the top did n't he , cos he always did every thing to perfection , I said you ca n't have Joe doing it |
| 10 | First , bankers are so used to thinking of intangibles as chiefly useful for pricing takeovers and then minimising taxes after them ( intangibles can be amortised for tax purposes ) that they have been slow to see them as a way of wooing investors . |
| 11 | It 's also quite difficult to , I would think , to put across a character who is n't a baddie , because we 're so used to hearing Afrikaaner as being a bad language as it were . |
| 12 | Children so unused to hugs before , clung onto their English friends until the last minute . |
| 13 | Children so unused to hugs before , clung onto their English friends until the last minute . |
| 14 | Naturally we went to share our sandwiches with the robins , which were starving , but they were so unused to people they did n't seem to know what bread was . |
| 15 | ‘ Can they be so hideous in appearance the mere sight of them drives you mad ? ’ |
| 16 | Why was it so regional in character ? |
| 17 | The Indecent Displays ( Control ) Act 1981 was sound in principle , but so narrow in application that it has rarely if ever been tested in the courts . |
| 18 | I 've got ta , I think people are so un-organised with Christmas , you 've got to be organised , you 've got to say like , you know , I 'm only going to those shops , you know , if like like now , say so we went in Boots |
| 19 | Some ponds were so rich in animal life that a single pond net sample contained over 8,800 animals ! |
| 20 | We are witnessing the birth of a civilization which nurtures ideas and creativity precisely because it is so rich in diversity . |
| 21 | His brain-power is at best no more than average , and that is why his speeches , so rich in adjectives , are so poor in sinewy argument . |
| 22 | I 'm very well aware that the director before me built a very stable platform on which we can operate , and that we 're lucky to have a region that 's so rich in talent , erm in artistic talent , and in enthusiasm . |
| 23 | This is a shame in a book so rich in ideas and so virtuoso in its handling of specialist terminology . |
| 24 | It is so rich in flavour , so sweet , so cool , fresh — and so entirely appropriate to the high summer of the Mediterranean . |
| 25 | The military influences which were so strong in diplomacy in central and eastern Europe were therefore by no means unknown in the great western states as well . |
| 26 | Sorry you 're so low on self-esteem . |
| 27 | The River Thames got so low at Wallingford archeologists uncovered a submerged bronze age jetty . |
| 28 | Moreover , the ozone deposition velocity is so low over water ( 0.1cms -1 ) that dry deposition can not explain the rate of ozone loss apparent in Fig. 1 during morning hours . |
| 29 | Safe , too , is John Birt , Hussey 's choice as director-general-designate , although morale is so low within news and current affairs at the BBC that rumours are circulating of a secret haven within ITN where ammunition is being collected from dissident BBC executives to try to blast Birt out . |
| 30 | John Collins , again an outstanding contributor , summed up Celtic 's attitude : ‘ We were so low after Brockville , it was not hard to play better than we did there . ’ |