Example sentences of "so [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having a baby usually means not being able to have a job as well so most young mothers have to make do with the various state benefits they are entitled to . |
| 2 | Therefore there is a logical tendency to preclude from view the social reasons why people are using the land in such a way as to cause excessive soil erosion , and so most conservation policies do not address them at all . |
| 3 | Fats exist in certain quantities in many of the foods normally eaten by the elderly , apart from the obvious ones of butter , margarine , milk and cheese , so most old people on a varied diet are consuming adequate amounts . |
| 4 | For the next decade or so most local authorities stumbled , enthused , muddled and reorganised their secondary schools into a comprehensive form . |
| 5 | In his monumental opus Terra Nostra — certainly one of the dozen or so most important novels to be published in any language since the Second World War — the respected Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes depicted Jesus as surviving the Cross by means of fraudulent crucifixion involving a substitute . |
| 6 | So most important thing about functions , is what sort of functions is it a one-one or a many-one ? |
| 7 | DR PAUL TALALAY , a research scientist at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine , Baltimore , has discovered that broccoli prevents cells from becoming malignant — and so presumably broccoli-eating enthusiasts should have a reduced risk of getting cancer . |
| 8 | With the right sort of bailiff pack , our new sport is bound to find acceptance ; particularly so since traditional sports are threatened . |
| 9 | Du n no what that is , I mean oh we have n't got a clue , he 's not got a clue on car , do n't know where he 's got that bloody lot from , so besides other things that want checking for MOT , I think he wants them to check |
| 10 | We apologise to all those fans of the Festival Ball who complained so bitterly last year that there was n't one ! |
| 11 | Both responded by embracing democratic consensus so wholeheartedly that opposition became synonymous with either irresponsibility or extremism . |
| 12 | Before the Great Depression , which shook so fundamentally any belief in the possibility of continuous economic growth . |
| 13 | Although most of them were being paid so little that employment had become a farce , an irrelevance . |
| 14 | So little forward pressure is needed that attention could be concentrated on following the guide line as the blade slipped in through the timber . |
| 15 | I mean , we do n't stand still at this because what will seem a very good service this year will look like a lousy service in five years ' time so let's not pretend the fact that we have n't achieved everything we 've achieved this year in some previous years means that we have n't made any improvements because I think one of the key areas where in fact er improvements have been made in previous years , and to a certain extent , one could say reading this I was worried by an apparent admission of very much reference or very much expenditure on them in the provision of day centres , because I think that a key element in care in the community and the fact that today so successfully this year has been the fact that a major number of th and I do n't think there 's any disagreement over this , a number of day centres , very efficient and very effective day centres , were developed , funded , provided mainly in the conurbation areas and I think Mr is right to highlight the fact that , as so often happens in these instances , it 's people who live in conurbations who get the best deal because it 's , it 's more economical , it 's easier to provide a centre for a large number of people than it is for a small number of people . |
| 16 | The birds gave voice so vigorously that relief that the sun had come at last might almost be detected in their song — the warm , exhilarating sun . |
| 17 | As Professor E.C.S. Wade put it so powerfully several years ago : |
| 18 | If only his head did not ache so badly that thought seemed driven out by the throbbing . |
| 19 | Peter Phillips began this year to write a shrewd and passionate column on cricket for the London Spectator … settling into a back pew , [ he ] said , ‘ Oh , my word , England played so badly this year … ’ |
| 20 | For once , she must tell him the truth , never mind that he had behaved so badly last night . |
| 21 | So apparently last night he came knocking on the door . |
| 22 | erm at the same time so perhaps other remedies are necessary . |
| 23 | So perhaps another note for Mr Patten 's no doubt very full in-tray is to look again at the decision to close down the body responsible for developing Milton Keynes , and start a new government initiative to encourage more new settlements throughout the region , rather than leaving it to private consortia to chance their arms through a development control system which seems unable to accommodate new initiatives in planning . |
| 24 | ‘ I think I shall be coming in a little under budget on Luxembourg so perhaps any surplus could be spent on the other productions . ’ |
| 25 | I was Mr Chairman as all the budget process have been perhaps so perhaps some budget Direct Committee when in fact . |
| 26 | The areas beyond these terminal reaves contain burial and religious monuments which in some cases must be earlier ; so perhaps some respect of older features is implied , an aspect which can be seen elsewhere where barrows and barrow cemeteries seem to have been avoided rather than ignored when the later fields were laid out . |
| 27 | This is not , I suspect , the most obvious of choices , so perhaps some explanation is necessary . |
| 28 | Harriet Shakespeare broke in , so fiercely that Jinny could imagine the fury on her face . |
| 29 | But vegetarian diets are so much healthier overall that they significantly increase people 's life expectancy . |
| 30 | Another minor snag is that they have only around half the energy density ( energy per gallon ) of fossil fuels , so much bigger vehicle tanks are needed . |