Example sentences of "so [adv] [prep] such " in BNC.
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| 1 | A first attempt has now been made in the Criminal Justice Act 1991 to remedy this omission ( see below ) , but the fact that sentencers have had to wait so long for such a lead is evidence of a serious weakness in the self-regulatory capacity of the Court of Appeal itself . |
| 2 | He reckoned he had picked the wrong waves at the Hard Rock at Sunset , and was worn down by the sheer hard labour of surfing so long in such arduous conditions . |
| 3 | I 'm surprised you lasted so long in such a place . |
| 4 | It always amazed her to see that other people could live so comfortably upon such barren territory . |
| 5 | Steve 's wife , Norah , of Woodchurch , said : ‘ I 'm very grateful to everyone at the Stirrup for raising this money so quickly for such a good cause . |
| 6 | Surely French hopes would not collapse now , so close to such a long awaited triumph . |
| 7 | You know , exactly the same thing , but changing the language , changing the format , and changing the so forth in such a way that it would correspond to a woman 's magazine , or a local newspaper or a national newspaper or a , or a trade magazine and so forth . |
| 8 | Louise was equally anxious to see this man who had had the power to persuade her niece to go against her upbringing and character and behave so recklessly after such a brief acquaintance . |
| 9 | The fact that the game was received so enthusiastically in such places as Argentina , Uruguay and Brazil , countries which had had south European rather than British cultures thrust upon them , testifies to the wide popular appeal of football . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm sorry you came so far for such a reason , Monsieur Lemarchand . |
| 11 | " You should just see her , you ca n't imagine , you would have to see her to know why she chose it , " and all the time , as she spoke , some more assured , sophisticated account underran her words , silently , in her own mind , an account by some other girl , some girl who could wear such garments , and laugh at them , and explain them , and not suffer — some girl so far above such things that nothing could pull her down . |
| 12 | Although they do lie outside the mainstream — indeed , because they lie outside it — authors such as B. S. Johnson have at the very least an important exemplary function , keeping open a wide spectrum of possibility , even for authors who may not always wish to go so far in such radical directions themselves . |
| 13 | The Conservatives , even allowing for the synthetic optimism manufactured so voluminously on such occasions , have targeted him and are confident of an upset . |
| 14 | In England , false alarms , as so often at such times , added to the prevailing tension . |
| 15 | Both sides , as so often in such debates , generated more heat than light . |
| 16 | a place of amazing contrasts , you simply would n't believe that the landscape and scenery could change so dramatically in such a small distance , from the mountainous green countryside in the north to the fields of rock , ash and lava in the south . |
| 17 | The truth of the matter was expressed by the hon. Member for Aldridge-Brownhills ( Mr. Shepherd ) , who has spoken so well on such questions in recent years and protested each time the Government resorted to fresh guillotine motions . |
| 18 | How was it possible he could know her so well after such a short time ? |
| 19 | Obviously a writer who is happy with ‘ super-refined ’ ( elsewhere he says that Eliot 's ‘ Portrait of a Lady ’ is ‘ extraordinarily sensitized ’ ) is not a critic worth pausing on for long ; and yet when Untermeyer cites all too patent imitations of Eliot 's ‘ Sweeney Among the Nightingales ’ in quatrains by Osbert Sitwell and Herbert Read and Robert Nichols , one can see good reason for him to think that Eliot s reputation , achieved so fast on such a slender body of work , was no more than modish . |
| 20 | However the very nature of weaponry does not lend itself so readily to such analysis . |
| 21 | He gave another laugh , its bitterness apparent , telling her that that was exactly true , though why he should hold so firmly to such a cynical view she could n't imagine . |
| 22 | A room that British civil servants moan about but defend the way New Yorkers do New York because it shows how unique they are in coping so splendidly in such surroundings . |
| 23 | But it 's not wise to exercise so violently in such heat . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ How can she have deteriorated so seriously in such a short time , when she only came here for a check-up ? ’ |