Example sentences of "so [adv] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I suggest that most of the sentiments you express so forcibly are your own , Mr Peck . |
| 2 | He had n't been doing and er reckon he and er think I 'm and that was it so right Been driving since he was nineteen |
| 3 | The intimacy with which she and Luke explored each other 's mouths was possession of a kind , so wholly were they given to that long kiss , and when it ended they had to have it all over again , instantly , mouths colliding with an urgency which carried them dangerously beyond mere sensuality . |
| 4 | To be so close to a girl and yet so rarely be able to caress her . |
| 5 | The principal reason why the methods of scrutiny in the House of Commons and the House of Lords differ so widely is that the House of Commons has traditionally seen its power as residing in the Chamber itself and in the power to call ministers to account on the floor of the House . |
| 6 | One of the reasons he was able to run his brothel so successfully was because he was homosexual , and therefore had no interest in the stock . |
| 7 | The rating on which young people do so badly is derived only from that fraction of employers who say they are different . |
| 8 | So badly was he affected that he had to be taught to speak again . |
| 9 | I later realized that the reason I always did so badly was I just could n't see the blackboard because I was so short-sighted . |
| 10 | If overtime was indeed needed , so perhaps was work-sharing , a modern idea which tries to spread the dignity of jobs around . |
| 11 | So thickly was the snow falling that I knew they could only just have been made , probably within the past five minutes . |
| 12 | So loud are these calls that a single insect can be heard half a kilometre away and a chorus of them can set a whole forest ringing and echoing . |
| 13 | He had almost bawled at her ; in fact , so loud was his voice that he turned instinctively , feeling he must have been overheard , and looked towards the two gates which had ‘ The Grange ’ easily discernible as part of the wrought iron . |
| 14 | It 's cos you enjoy our company so much in n it Chris ? |
| 15 | Another reason I like Dorset so much is for the windsurfing . |
| 16 | A seventeenth-century libertine who wrote excellent satirical verse ( he 's the author of the famous epigram about Charles II : ‘ God bless our good and gracious king/Whose promise none relies on ; /Who never said a foolish thing , /Nor ever did a wise one ’ — one of the reasons I like him so much is that allegedly he recited it extempore to the king ) and some great , great poems about sex . |
| 17 | Money-Go-Round : Never has so much been owed by so many |
| 18 | Those fighter pilots were praised by Churchill , when he made his famous announcement that ‘ Never in the history of human conflict had so much been owed to so few by so many ’ . |
| 19 | But the major problem with the curriculum has not so much been lack of vision or aims , as a failure to translate aims in a clear and logical way into a curriculum to achieve them . |
| 20 | There , it has not so much been its Calvinism that has been welcome as its emphasis upon the inerrancy of Scripture . |
| 21 | Never has so much been expected of general medical practitioners and practice staff ; general practitioners are being pressed to do audit , participate in commissioning , become fundholders , do research , improve consumer responsiveness , and develop new skills in the transfer of services from secondary to primary care and development of community care . |
| 22 | They were n't so much being difficult as simply teasing , and it made for a very amusing if unproductive hour . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Even the cash-flow predictions they cared about so much were nothing to her but answers she wanted ticked . |
| 29 | The sexual irregularities of which biographers have made so much were not in themselves important or unusual for a ruler of that age . |
| 30 | Maria thought the evening went well and could only hope those to whom this launch meant so much were equally pleased with the way she acquitted herself . |