Example sentences of "[verb] so [adv] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 But from my own researches it became plain to me that she was very much a person of her times , as compared with Beatrice Webb who became so much a critic of her times .
2 Although the unemployment rate at 9.2 p.c. is , for the first time , on a par with the average in Britain , no serious observer expects it to remain so once the economy as a whole picks up .
3 We have not stressed so frequently the importance of liaison with our own colleagues , arguing ( with sometimes dubious validity ) that because it ‘ happens all the time ’ it does not need to be explicitly provided .
4 Nevertheless , on the material before the court , it was not necessary to impose so long a term of imprisonment .
5 So , when Mr Goodman enquired about him , George was eager to come to Selhurst Park and most Palace historians agree that , had he done so even a month before the end of 1924–25 , the Palace would never have been relegated from Division Two .
6 Though initially little more than special pleading for Liverpool shipping interests , his journalism taught him radical attitudes , most notably a hatred of the Foreign Office , for according so low a priority to West Africa , and a sympathy for African culture , which was reinforced by meeting the traveller Mary Kingsley [ q.v. ] in 1899 .
7 In a country where education had expanded so rapidly the gap between young and old had accelerated so teaching the adults to read and write was becoming urgent .
8 What strange quirk of the heart made me feel so much a part of the life of this place ?
9 That epicanthic fold over the eye , which seemed so much a part of the android 's ‘ difference ’ — its machine-nature — was here , on the natural man , quite attractive .
10 Sweeney shocks because he shows so clearly the effect of lack of themis .
11 Hard to remember , between readings , that Brideshead and Nineteen Eighty-Four are funny books : one recalls so vividly the gravity of their themes , so little the gaiety of their prose , that a rereading can easily surprise .
12 Whenever I hear a man being witty or sensible or kindly or civilized I think : the qualities which now seem so much a part of this man could be stripped away at any time , and there would be left just a man who suffered and who fought with his suffering like an animal .
13 I mean he 'd he 'd use so often the experience of the people who were listening , so when a went down to , they all knew what he was talking about .
14 If the two pairs of projectors are in line , the intention is not usually a multi-image effect In fact , it s likely that the two projectors nearer to the camera will not contain so much an image as an image-blocker , ie a mask or matte that blocks out part of the image behind it Since the two mattes will normally be complementary , and the combined image can be seen by inspection through the camera 's viewfinder , any faults , such as overlaps or gaps , should be observed at the time and , if possible , corrected on a second , third or fourth take This is more economical and satisfactory than getting the results of multiple passes back from the lab and discovering that a whole day 's work has to be redone .
15 Punch is certainly one of the great British institutions , and has become so much a way of life as to make it impossible to imagine a world without it .
16 These ways have become so much a part of the fabric of dance that they are used almost unknowingly by teachers and dancers .
17 By 1945 , German ‘ solutions ’ in the east had become so much a part of the German view of the world and ‘ German historic destiny ’ that the Russians and the Poles , who had played human safety-valve to German ambition throughout their long joint histories , saw dismemberment of German territory in the east as the only possible long-term solution .
18 These characters have become so much a part of our own childhood that we almost forget their origin .
19 It was as if the train journey itself , the old-fashioned intimate compartment in which they had found themselves , the freedom from interruptions and the tyranny of the telephone , the sense of time visibly flying , annihilated under the pounding wheels , not to be accounted for , had released both of them from a carefulness which had become so much a part of living that they were no longer aware of its weight until they let it slip from their shoulders .
20 It has become so much a part of them that they are often unaware of its existence .
21 We then start to read the familiar stories of ward closures and idle operating theatres which have become so much a part of the New Year celebrations and which the reforms were supposed to eliminate .
22 It had become so much a matter of routine that when she answered he came close to putting the phone down before he realized that all he 'd heard was , ‘ Hello . ’
23 But it is possible to draw so tight a circle around an enlightened few that the picture becomes distorted in the opposite direction .
24 Both these lights are operative in the writings of the mystics as means by which man sees his own true nature and in doing so also a reflection of God ; it is a state in which they feel themselves to be most fully alive .
25 It is not easy , admittedly , at this point in time , when the Commonwealth seems so obviously a fig-leaf for imperial decline , to credit the extravagant hopes that once were entertained of it as the foundation of everlasting British dominion — influence , as it were , eternally made flesh .
26 ‘ To be honest , I 'm a bit tired of being described just as a jazz singer or with words like ‘ abstract ’ , ’ she says , responding to reviews that have tried a little too hard to distance her from the rave scene she still feels so much a part of .
27 I remembered so painfully the anguish of estrangement , and I felt I could not take the risk of spoiling our amity , nor of living with memories of discord , should he be killed .
28 As for the great Largo e mesto itself , here it 's the intensity of his phrasing that gives so sharp an edge to the sorrow .
29 Helmut was going to transfer so much a month into a bank account for me and I could draw it out at an office in the Champs-Elysées .
30 She found herself looking covertly at the bed , which had so much the air of being from a foreign country .
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