Example sentences of "is so [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This great weakness of vulnerability to fragmentation , is to be found in all established religions and it is this which has prevented any of them ever being able to offer to the rest of the world anything even approaching a promise of the universal happiness that is so desired . |
| 2 | Flush fitting sides mean you get the look of a built in cooker is so desired . |
| 3 | But no ‘ red breast ’ ; only the male is so adorned . |
| 4 | Women who grow excess facial and body hair often find that their confidence is so destroyed that they would benefit from psychological counselling , according to the Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin . |
| 5 | Ozone formation is so influenced by sunshine that even the west of Ireland and northern Scotland experience summers with ozone damage . |
| 6 | C. F. G. Masterman in his contribution to Smith 's report observed the ‘ manifest tendency of the Nonconformist worshippers to collect together into strong centres … which is inevitable where preaching is so emphasised and the stimulus and guidance of the pulpit so much desired ’ . |
| 7 | Adorno argues that with Beethoven the potential of music is so raised that older assumptions are shattered . |
| 8 | 1.2 Each order which is so accepted shall constitute an individual legally binding contract between the Seller and the Purchaser and such contract is hereafter referred to in these Conditions as an " Order " . |
| 9 | Cellular radio is so called because it divides the country into small areas served by a radio base , and then divides each of these areas into ‘ cells ’ . |
| 10 | LOST-WAX casting is so called because the object to be cast is first modelled in wax ( over a clay core if the casting is to be hollow ) . |
| 11 | The Nutcracker suite in this charming 17th-century inn is so called because the low-ceilinged doorway has an exposed beam which has caught out the unwary and cracked a few heads in its time . |
| 12 | This pitch is so called because the 2nd Man , when rattling the bag of acid drops , fervently murmures ‘ Amen ’ to any remarks let fall by the leader while struggling with this steep wall of 8 cubits in stature ! ’ |
| 13 | Hill climbing is so called because it is like what one would do to find the top of a hill in a Scottish mist : Keep going up . |
| 14 | Stein 's vis-á-vis instrument now in Verona is so called because the piano and harpsichord it combines face each other . |
| 15 | This is so called because it is available to the general public or to civilians rather than to the authorities . |
| 16 | S. Paul-outside-the-Walls ( S. Paolo fuori le Mura ) , built in 380 , is so called , as is S. Lorenzo , because both great basilicas were built outside the city walls of ancient Rome . |
| 17 | The wart-biter is so called because when first described by the Swedish naturalist Linnaeus , it was used by his native peasants to bite off their warts . |
| 18 | ‘ Walter is so looking forward to seeing his work in print . |
| 19 | Alighting on another optimistic subject for British wildlife — butterflies to be exact — Edwin Mullins explains why he is so bewitched by them and James Driver advises on how to increase their numbers by breeding caterpillars ( see page 80 ) . |
| 20 | When it passes out of his hands , Gollum is so eaten up with desire for the Ring that even though he has become evil he helps Frodo find Mount Doom in order to stay with the Ring . |
| 21 | Pulverized bark or even wood shavings can be used as it is so exposed to the air that denitrification is avoided . |
| 22 | The habit is so ingrained that even his crosses are going in , as happened on Saturday . |
| 23 | To understand why this is so let us recapitulate for a moment . |
| 24 | To see why this is so let us consider the situation in the light of the foregoing argument . |
| 25 | Hardy was my poetical father and if I seldom read him now , it is , perhaps because our relationship is so assured as no longer to need being made conscious . |
| 26 | Although the movie 's premise appears to stretch the limits of the imagination , Robbins 's performance is so assured that he deftly sidesteps moments when the plot could veer towards conspiracy paranoia . |
| 27 | The glass is so smeared that it hardly counts as a reflective surface . |
| 28 | The English form of application for legal aid ( which has no accompanying memorandum ) is so devised that it can be , and often is , completed by the applicant without the intervention of any solicitor . |
| 29 | Also , it is so situated , in a piazza on the fringe of the town , that it can be appreciated without the distraction of heavy traffic and commercial buildings . |
| 30 | Subject to the important exceptions below , the Transfer Regulations apply to the " transfer from one person to another of an undertaking situated immediately before the transfer in the United Kingdom or a part of one which is so situated " . |