Example sentences of "an [noun sg] so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos it 's in side roads , so that 's an hour-and-a-half okay , you could we waiting for your train for about an hour so that 's two-and-a-half hours |
| 2 | I started off qua , er quarter of an hour so half ha , it was only one of these things that goes over the top . |
| 3 | The only one of the three daughters around was Dorothy , who acted as our guide and mentor and came with us , first on a visit to Speight 's Brewery which was memorable for the guide , who delivered her monologue in a deadpan voice and an accent so broad that even Dorothy had trouble understanding it , heaven knows what all the Japanese tourists made of it ! — and second , on the Taieri Gorge railway , an afternoon 's ride up into Central Otago , with stops along the way . |
| 4 | She spoke with an accent so soft that it sounded as if an h was attached to each consonant . |
| 5 | ‘ In the white man , the Black Swan finds an enemy so deadly , that in many parts where it was formerly numerous it has been almost , if not entirely , extirpated … |
| 6 | She raised her glass and sipped , as if that were an act so casual , so ordinary , that death could n't possibly accompany it . |
| 7 | On an issue so important as that of the death penalty I feel that the House is entitled to expect a lead from the Government ; we fail in our duty unless we give the view of those responsible for maintaining law and security for the citizens . |
| 8 | The unfortunate queen , unable to take sunlight after her lengthy seclusion , was entirely swaddled in black cloth — in which she was undergoing an exercise so rigorous that we wondered if she would emerge from it alive . |
| 9 | Allegations that the expert has made a mistake will succeed only if the mistake is an error so fundamental that no expert is likely to have made it . |
| 10 | And you can always tell reflectors in training , cos sometimes you 'll think what 's happening , nobody else wants participation , reflectors will actually stand back and think well what did they ask for , what do I talk about then and it 's always like a delayed response you get a lot of reflectors and we had one course once and we had all high reflector scores and that actually told us a lot about participation cos people were n't disguising any they were thinking about it coming in had time to consider an opinion so that 's a reflector . |
| 11 | It 's at this stage that one or other of the partners may start to get an eye so roving as to become a nose and take up with the first cloth-eared bimbo who gazes up or down and says , ‘ I ca n't believe you 're over forty — that 's sooo sexy . ’ |
| 12 | Dulcie Howes , who wrote that comment to me , had told the Cape Town critic Denis Hatfield at the time that John would never really be a dancer but that he had ‘ such a remarkable eye for balletic pattern , an imagination so vivid , and such an ear for music in relation to movement ’ that she was certain he would make a choreographer . |
| 13 | I find it hard to understand it does not seem feasible to explain I can not see how neo-Darwinism seems inadequate to explain many of the complexities of animal behaviour it is not easy to comprehend how such behaviour could have evolved solely through natural selection It is impossible How could an organ so complex evolve ? |
| 14 | The Bishop goes on to the human eye , asking rhetorically , and with the implication that there is no answer , " How could an organ so complex evolve ? " |
| 15 | At about two o'clock there was an explosion so close that Anne threw herself across her mother to protect her . |
| 16 | Remember , the protectiveness of your subconscious is unlikely to allow you to go straight to a period or an event so traumatic that it has affected you for such a long time afterwards . |
| 17 | Tony offered to make breakfast , an event so rare that there was a chance parliament would reconvene at Þingvellir . |
| 18 | Never , never would he consider such an event so insupportable as to … ’ |
| 19 | Joyce 's use of stream of consciousness was often thought at the time to be an achievement so outstanding as to deter imitation : Ezra Pound , for example , suggested , ‘ Ulysses is , presumably … unrepeatable … you can not duplicate it ’ ( Pound 1922 : 625 ) . |
| 20 | Once again the tip-toe manoeuvre — but this time it 's not quite an apology so much as an unsuccessful account . |
| 21 | At the end of the day an evaluation on this scale , of a project of this importance , undertaken within an environment so complex and bedevilled by industrial action , is bound to leave many questions unanswered . |
| 22 | In an age so dependent on the horse , the depth and width of interest can barely be exaggerated . |
| 23 | And Clara , overcome by the wonderful , felicitous acceptability of his offer , an offer so familiar to her , so marvellously manageable , trembled only most slightly as she said , staring down at the limp arrangements of her hands , " Oui , surement . " |
| 24 | He is also in charge of an economy so large that it makes a real difference to world trade and to British economic fortunes in particular . |
| 25 | Sabine had a confused impression of height and strength , and an anger so powerful that she felt scorched by it . |
| 26 | His words surprised her at first , then anger took over — an anger so intense that she was prepared to walk out of her marriage and do irreparable damage to the Royal Family . |
| 27 | She was seized by an anger so intense that , for a moment , she could n't speak . |
| 28 | He pulled Charlotte into his arms in an embrace so fierce that she drew back , staring at him . |
| 29 | Bentham was also clear what the Panopticon would mean for those who had to occupy it , subjected as they would be to " … an authority so much exceeding anything that has hitherto signified as despotic " ( Works , IV p 63 , emphasis in original ) . |
| 30 | One day in the future , the treacherous Deems-figure who arrives to make the test will employ an argument so sophisticated that I shall be convinced by it , and enter the Emperor 's Council Room and kill him . ’ |