Example sentences of "so [adv] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be so close to a girl and yet so rarely be able to caress her . |
| 2 | Then conscience would not so much be a faculty of intuiting truths as a God-given power within us which — if put in control — will steer us in a particular direction , when it comes to choosing between ourselves and others . |
| 3 | Their potential has already been recognised and exploited in other fields — schools will not so much be moving with the times as running to catch up . |
| 4 | The implication is that multimedia applications may not so much be an issue related to the relative success of particular standalone platforms but rather an inherent feature of information services piped directly into homes , offices , libraries , schools and colleges through broadband information highways . |
| 5 | The convention , which has been proposed by Greenpeace , would not so much be concerned with enforcement and punishment but " would be more a guidance framework to be introduced into the thinking of governments " , declared Richard Falk , professor of international law at Harvard University and one of the keynote speakers at the conference . |
| 6 | Ryan 's final chapters show that progress in this field will not so much be a threat to novelists , as a potentially rewarding challenge for narratologists . |
| 7 | we 'll show you now how to put on a pressure bandage for severe bleeding and then we 'll put the film on and you can see the whole lot again , okay , so just be in the room if you just push and push and push on the window and er the hand has gone through the window , right , and there 's no glass imbedded but it 's cut right across the palm and the reason that we show you this one is because the artery that feeds all these fingers comes and the thumb comes up in an arch like that okay , so the artery comes down , up in an arch across the palm of the hand , so the fingers and thumb all get a blood supply , so when you cut the palm of your hand there is a lot of blood pumping out , okay , so what 's the first thing I 'd tell her to do ? |
| 8 | ‘ Not far from here , near Boaler Street , so just be careful , young Anne . |
| 9 | So just be a touching ball . |
| 10 | Conversely , when that was just what she wanted , suddenly Leith felt alarm that her weekend with Naylor would so soon be over . |
| 11 | However , I should add , it is with regret that we have to take such drastic intervention , a course which could so easily be avoided through co-ordination and commitment by other agencies close at hand . |
| 12 | ‘ My experience is that hackers are the world 's innocents — they can so easily be manipulated , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Psychiatry can so easily be a technique of brainwashing , of inducing behaviour that is adjusted , by ( preferably ) non-injurious torture … . |
| 14 | Trailing wires can so easily be cut when trimming back hedges or mowing long grass . |
| 15 | I think that privacy and a sense of owning your own body and knowing its boundaries is quite a difficult thing for girls to achieve in a world in which female bodies are plastered on every billboard , and when you walk down the street those boundaries can so easily be invaded by men commenting on the size of your breasts or on what you are wearing . |
| 16 | There are complex reasons why doctors deny what can so easily be demonstrated , but in the case of teething I am sure there is a strong historical element of guilt . |
| 17 | Nigel and I were , above all , struck by the sympathetic treatment of an area which could so easily be spoiled . |
| 18 | The contradiction is probably most apparent in Mexico , where cheap radios , televisions and films can so easily be imported from the USA , but the media is also very much a feature of contemporary life in other Latin American countries . |
| 19 | A great deal of effort also needs to be devoted to enhancing the social standing of the cleaners because they can so easily be regarded as inferior by other staff irrespective of their skills . |
| 20 | Their trust can so easily be won by the surgeons and nurses , and it is the absence of anxiety and worry which enable bones to knit together faster . |
| 21 | And this can so easily be the case , for such premises are instilled into the scientific mind set at an early age , becoming accepted points of reference , though really they are often nothing more than habits of thought . |
| 22 | The machines which they order in the good times are apt to arrive in the bad times , when the products can not so easily be sold and when borrowing costs are exceptionally high . |
| 23 | None of this need be numerical , sometimes numbers are used to provide a pseudo precision which can be counterproductive because the validity of the numbers can so easily be questioned . |
| 24 | On this occasion the judge was trying to protect the reputation of the female defendant , but the enthusiasm of the popular press could not so easily be quelled . |
| 25 | If we can establish that literacy practice involved a socially variable set of conventions ( as I hope this book will make a contribution to doing ) , then claims for its consequences will not so easily be disguised as universal truths . |
| 26 | As unwanted pregnancies can so easily be avoided by abortion and contraception , why is illegitimacy now so high ? |
| 27 | But he never explained how it is that we can so easily be led by involuntary desire . |
| 28 | But if the support for the SNP was , like the Liberal vote , a substantially ‘ cross-class ’ phenomenon it can not so easily be categorised as a flight from ‘ class ’ as pertinent social collectivity , since it must be recognised that the ‘ national distinctiveness ’ of Scotland is overdetermined by the differential balance of classes in Scotland as opposed to England . |
| 29 | Middle-class ladies needed to vet prospective female servants ; they could so easily be morally defective . |
| 30 | Not only do her efforts to assert her freedom from male domination lead her into the hands of another man , but she is also punished for her resistance by having her words deemed valueless , just as today ‘ pseudo-escaperoutes will so lightly turn sado-escape , and … women 's very freedom will so easily be used against them by even moderately clever men ’ ( 12 ) . |