Example sentences of "by so [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir : Sue Wells ' poignant article about adoption ( Living , 2 October ) captures the heartbreak felt by so many other parents living in Britain today . |
| 2 | I think one sees it by the change in the structure of big business , by so many management buy-outs and the realisation that size is not everything ; large companies concentrating more on their core businesses and getting rid of peripheral businesses and spending more on research and development in supporting core businesses . |
| 3 | But supposed , to evoke the inner workings of the electrical goods sold by so many shops in the road up there . |
| 4 | No government is likely to say at this juncture that it regards cars as an environmental menace and intends to reduce their numbers by so many per cent a year . |
| 5 | What seems miraculous , when all is said , is that a man driven by so many acts of perversity should have been embraced so widely . |
| 6 | Never was so little done by so many . |
| 7 | Money-Go-Round : Never has so much been owed by so many |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | We will continue to oppose EC measures which would discourage part-time employment , valued by so many women . |
| 10 | We can not , therefore , feel surprised that Professor Coleman , beset by so many obstacles in that particular branch of our art , and having arrived at an advanced period of life , could not fling himself into its pursuit ; nor was it reasonable to expect it from him ’ . |
| 11 | A desperate shortage of labour caused by so many workers in industry being called up enabled hundreds of deaf men and women to get employment . |
| 12 | It might amuse him to rub salt into her wound , to display that notches-on-the-bedhead braggadocio shared by so many of his fellows . |
| 13 | At the Tribute and subsequently in Seville , it must have been great to be surrounded by so many people who openly acknowledge Queen as a huge influence . |
| 14 | It has been so rewarding for me to read about the happiness and freedom from the prison of obesity that is now enjoyed by so many . |
| 15 | This seems to me to be at the root of the false notion of ‘ independence ’ being pursued by so many local élites throughout Europe and beyond . |
| 16 | The hand of friendship , extended so warmly by so many , was rudely brushed aside by those who believed they knew best . |
| 17 | During his search for parts he has built up a colossal spares stock , but as the type has been used by so many air forces around the world and is still in service in places , components are not difficult to obtain — although they can be pricey . |
| 18 | The utility of believing that , however many setbacks my cause may suffer , God or the historical process is ultimately on my side , an effectiveness demonstrated throughout history by so many religious and political movements , is only one example of the practical value of delusion . |
| 19 | With the manure provided by so many beasts , there was some hope of success in making productive the marginal soils of the Weald , particularly where natural fertiliser was augmented by a wide variety of other fertilisers , lime , meat and even scraps from the villages . |
| 20 | But this is seen to be the reason why forces or energies are transferred or transmitted across what has continually been regarded by so many scientists as ‘ empty space ’ . |
| 21 | The Queen says : ‘ The prayers , understanding and sympathy given to us by so many of you in good times and bad have lent us great support and encouragement . |
| 22 | The prayers , understanding and sympathy given to us by so many of you in good times and bad have lent us great support and encouragement . |
| 23 | No wonder that theism is abandoned with such alacrity by so many of these new philosophers . |
| 24 | I 'd never been surrounded by so many nice things before , not even at the Lewises ' . |
| 25 | Herbert told me that his government , saddened by so many post-war feature films in which heroic Allies and horrid Nazis went on refighting old battles ( to me no more than the modern equivalent of cowboys and Indians ) was much impressed by the non-partisan nature of my films and books , and intended to give public expression of their approval . |
| 26 | Shamlou was gratified to find themselves jostled by so many foreign students , many loaded down with rucksacks , clearly in Paris for cheap hostel holidays . |
| 27 | ‘ Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few . ’ |
| 28 | The seeds of this new mythology of space had been sown , back in the days of the Big Step , by so many alien races appearing suddenly in the system , in vessels as various in shape and size as their owners . |
| 29 | ‘ Why , then , Sir , is it His will that we in our hive are beset by so many enemies within ? |
| 30 | I had been wept on by so many boyfriends that , had Home Sister known , she would have warned me of the dangers of pneumonia every time I went out on a date . |