Example sentences of "so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My garden is all the more attractive because the gardens on either side are so rampant and untended : places where moss covers the paths , the grass is yellow and long and the stalks of sycamore seedlings have red , fungoid lumps . |
| 2 | He did feed them at one time , but they became so rampant he had to stop . |
| 3 | Never before had I heard him , or — anyone else for that matter , sound so emphatic in praise of my written work . |
| 4 | On the other hand her present emphasis may be retrospectively the harder because she was so emphatic in the Sixties when Burton ‘ crucified Sybil ’ by leaving her for Elizabeth Taylor . |
| 5 | However it was a question of fact for the Crown Court , which was entitled to find that it was not so practicable . |
| 6 | Bet he had to be substituted towards the end as he was so gutted . |
| 7 | I 'm recording this , well like I 'm only lying No , yeah , I know you must be so gutted after that you going oh I would n't dump him for anyone oh well , now you can go out Oh my god there 's Paul . |
| 8 | So gutted ! |
| 9 | First , it is so hilly . |
| 10 | In the four books which Ransome set in East Anglia , the geographical details are so specific that the books can be used as accurate guides to the appropriate parts of Norfolk , Suffolk and Essex . |
| 11 | Product names therefore should not be so specific as to exclude wider use where appropriate . |
| 12 | Budgets should set expenditure for principal areas of expense and may with advantage be so specific as to set amounts for individual chemical products and equipment . |
| 13 | This will go a little further than a 6 but is not quite so specific as a 30 . |
| 14 | As active status is so specific to the individual and based on experience , specialist knowledge , awareness , ability and social skills there is far less need to compete for it . |
| 15 | A Word Child ( 1975 ) , indeed , is so specific in its references to places , and especially to places on the London Underground , that the narrator remarks he was once tempted to call his story the Inner Circle ; and Martin Amis 's London Fields ( 1989 ) is almost as detailed about Notting Hill as if it were a guide-book . |
| 16 | Works councils have been particularly important in securing improvements in working conditions and other non-wage elements since many of these are so specific to individual workplaces that they can not be regulated by means of a general , industry-wide agreement . |
| 17 | He was always so specific , so certain . |
| 18 | I was trying to ask what was so specific about the period of 16 months . |
| 19 | I know you were so specific , but this is a fabulous kid and when I told her all about you , she just begged me to let her stop by and say hello . ’ ) . |
| 20 | Chomsky has claimed that the principles underlying the structure of language are so specific and so highly articulated that they must be regarded as being biologically determined ; that is , as constituting part of what we call " human nature " and as being genetically transmitted from parents to children . |
| 21 | Why are the Government so specific on income tax and so shifty on VAT ? |
| 22 | Some statutes are so specific that there can be no qualification . |
| 23 | Because the treatments are so specific does that mean to say the possibility of side effects are smaller . |
| 24 | ‘ She and Elizabeth , they were just so talented and so go-getting . |
| 25 | Right , so simultaneous why do n't you i why do n't you integrate this log Or why do n't you erm |
| 26 | Rationality , so dear to the reforming heart , ironically found its fullest expression in the picking of winners after careful perusal of ‘ the sporting intelligence ’ . |
| 27 | From where he stood Wexford could see roofs , a yellow patch of new thatch on the far left , red tiles some fifty yards from it , then the pinnacled and turreted grey slates so dear to the heart of the Victorian bourgeoisie ; next , half lost among the spread arms of a black cedar , the pinned-down tarred fabric that roofed a split-level ranch bungalow . |
| 28 | ‘ We must beware lest unscrupulous people exploit these areas of misunderstanding and divert our attention from the really important task , which is our common defence of the kind of freedoms we hold so dear : the freedoms for which this noble university so proudly stands and for which so many of its sons gave their lives in foreign fields . ’ |
| 29 | Our cousins in the sea , as they are sometimes called , seem to us to have created a society far closer to human ideals of Utopia than anything we have managed to achieve on land , and their social behaviour and lifestyle embody many of the virtues and qualities we humans hold so dear . |
| 30 | Independence may be a reality in fact if not in name , but it contradicts the dream of a united China that both the Kuomintang and the communists of Beijing hold dear — so dear that China has always threatened to use force if Taiwan declared independence . |