Example sentences of "[verb] so [adv] a [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 Nevertheless , on the material before the court , it was not necessary to impose so long a term of imprisonment .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 What strange quirk of the heart made me feel so much a part of the life of this place ?
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 These ways have become so much a part of the fabric of dance that they are used almost unknowingly by teachers and dancers .
10 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 .
11 These characters have become so much a part of our own childhood that we almost forget their origin .
12 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 .
13 It has become so much a part of them that they are often unaware of its existence .
14 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 .
15 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 . ’
16 But it is possible to draw so tight a circle around an enlightened few that the picture becomes distorted in the opposite direction .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 ‘ 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 .
20 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 .
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