Example sentences of "of [noun] so [adj] " 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 | His sons were there and so was a concourse of knights so huge that it reminded men of his Coronation . |
| 3 | ‘ We are ’ he said later , ‘ in danger of building so many mills and factories on the river 's bank … that the stream will be all used up and its bed dry . ’ |
| 4 | Having him there at the beginning was simply a stroke of luck so colossal that Henry 's natural pessimism was trying to turn it into a disaster . |
| 5 | Are the foundations of faith so shaky that nothing of any weight can be built on them ? |
| 6 | It was of course so important that it was recorded by the gospel writers no less than five times . |
| 7 | And then of course so both sides we new about . |
| 8 | Individuals belong to a variety of groups so any classification is subject to the perceptions of the members involved . |
| 9 | It was a state of existence so perfect that it almost frightened her because nothing Perfect lasted for ever . |
| 10 | I have never known a Member of Parliament so unwilling to accept the work that has been done by the Ministry on behalf of his constituents . |
| 11 | it 's a tangent it 's just another thing to be aware of er that certain put their exam but it 's along the same thing cos I know what 's happening and they 're not writing G C S E but they 're writing exam entries so many pupils x number of subjects so many passes okay ? |
| 12 | The questions cover a wide range of subjects so all participants can contribute . |
| 13 | a state of mind so different from that of ordinary human beings that the reasonable man would term it abnormal . |
| 14 | Some things are going to have to last you a very long time and withstand a great deal of wear so these must be the best of their kind that you can possibly afford . |
| 15 | IT IS of no great consequence to the rest of the world that a small island off the end of the Indian subcontinent should have sunk over the past couple of decades into a condition of violence so endemic that the murder of the president and a leading opposition politician within eight days can be regarded by the locals with something like equanimity ( see page 71 ) . |
| 16 | Difficult for bread-and-butter manufacturers , never mind the makers of cars so far off the scale ( up to £80,000 for the 600SEL Merc and twice that for the Bentley ) that by any rational thinking they belong to a different era altogether — one without recession , a war just over and all the current uncertainties . |
| 17 | This serves to ensure moderation and contain political conflict to manageable proportions , and it also sustains the legitimacy of the system of rule so enabling law to be enforced with only limited policing . |
| 18 | Claudia was drowning in a sea of sensations so strong that she wanted to rip away the clothes that kept them apart . |
| 19 | — flash of light so white and so bright |
| 20 | The social services of Kent County Council can be cited as an example of a local authority which has adapted the key elements of ZBB so that key programmes are reviewed not annually but on a five yearly cycle . |
| 21 | One night as she lay in bed with her husband , she heard ‘ a sound of melody so sweet and delectable , that she thought she had been in paradise ’ . |
| 22 | The swings of attitude so clear in the historical analysis of deafness had once again created a climate of opinion where the predominance of one methodology could be questioned . |
| 23 | Having advised restraint by the Labour Party , I was angered , and indeed horrified , by the announcement that the government had asked Lord Denning to conduct his now infamous one-man inquiry into the matter , with terms of reference so loose that he regarded himself as charged to examine everyone 's activities through a microscope and to denounce anyone where there was a whisper of suspected immorality , let alone convincing proof . |
| 24 | Mrs Stych , however , nibbled appreciatively at one of the chocolate morsels , while Mrs Johnson , who had no real idea how to trace an author , outlined a plan of campaign so huge that it would have confused an entire army staff , never mind Mrs Stych . |
| 25 | Opinion takes a world of countries so much for granted , it is mildly shocking to discover how recent the concept is . |
| 26 | So that when he returns to Mother England he 's still sporting that delicate shade of complexion so beloved of English males , and above all English females . ’ |
| 27 | Someone who knows about the great act of betrayal so many years ago . |
| 28 | I thought I could best do this at the Foreign Office , since in the aftermath of Suez so many dangerous tangles remained to be unravelled and so many ruptured friendships to be mended . |
| 29 | A principal medium of transgressive reinscription is fantasy — but again , not the fantasy of transcendence so much as the inherently perverse , transgressive reordering of fantasy 's conventional opposite , the mundane . |
| 30 | This is the vital property that makes a tensor presentation of GR so appropriate . |