Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] so [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should not glamorize the overcrowded , insanitary rural cottages — scarcely adequate as holiday homes for a two-child family now — in which parents tried to raise five children , which were so strikingly condemned in Chadwick 's 1842 Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Classes ( Flinn 1965 ) . |
| 2 | The trade unions have sustained the Labour party over all these years and Labour gave the trade unions the appalling powers which were so badly abused in the run-up to the 1979 election when , as we all know , the country was brought to its knees by a new strike almost every week . |
| 3 | Similarly we may note that the feeling which was so openly exhibited against the French nobility after the battle of Poitiers reflected something of a growing opinion that , in spite of tradition , the nobility had no absolute right to assume positions of responsibility within the army . |
| 4 | So , after lunching at one of the excellent local inns , we contented ourselves with making a wide sweep South to the River Dove and back up to the Derwent , — stopping at Castleton which , with its show caves and fluorspar ( Blue John stone ) mines should n't be missed and at Eyam which was so badly ravaged by the pestilence of 1665/6 that it is still known as The Plague Village . |
| 5 | So , after lunching at one of the excellent local inns , we contented ourselves with making a wide sweep South to the River Dove and back up to the Derwent , — stopping at Castleton which , with its show caves and fluorspar ( Blue John stone ) mines should n't be missed and at Eyam which was so badly ravaged by the pestilence of 1665/6 that it is still known as The Plague Village . |
| 6 | Similarly , he retained a strong christocentrism , but tried to find a ‘ non-religious ’ interpretation of Jesus as ‘ the man for others ’ in whom God is indeed present , but present in weakness , suffering and hiddenness rather than in the authoritative majesty which was so markedly appealed to in Barth 's earlier writing . |
| 7 | Indeed , that is precisely the point which was so clearly recognised by President Yeltsin . |
| 8 | The ban on the export of wool , which was so extensively produced in Lincolnshire , led to it being smuggled out of the country . |
| 9 | To do this we need to consider another element in the picture of autonomy which was so meticulously side-stepped by Holt . |
| 10 | No mention is made of the lateral road on the ridge of Busaco which was so carefully restored by Wellington and which played such a vital role in the successful conduct of the battle . |
| 11 | Big Allen , the highest peak of the foinland , which was so often veiled in mist or appeared as a blurred blue shape , this morning showed every crevice and crag on its slopes , every wind-bent bilberry , every clump of ling . |
| 12 | Turner 's Slave Ship which was so highly praised by Ruskin , shows faithfully the horror and evil of that traffic and it is the emotion , not the technique that has given the painting its immortality . |
| 13 | Madam Deputy Speaker I did n't mention those at all in the speech I gave last week which was so warmly received by the house . |
| 14 | You were so much loved by us all , |
| 15 | As for Dinah , she was so greatly given to her acting that she took no notice of any of the young men . |
| 16 | She was so poorly versed in the emotions that she failed to comprehend its true nature . |
| 17 | Why did she have to meet the wrong man , and one who was so strongly attracted to her ? |
| 18 | Ally Donaldson , to his credit , gave the impression of being grimly determined to answer those who say he does n't tackle but he was not the naturally punitive defender who was so badly needed in view of the back row 's shortcomings . |
| 19 | It could be said that some sort of crisis was going to force itself up in the life of a strongly emotional young man who was so strictly engaged in compartmentalizing his life : a father who was never meant to know about Janie Moore ; Minto herself cut off from college ; almost all his friends kept in darkness about his emotional history , and most of them at this period unaware of his religious interests ; pupils who were discussing with him the things he cared about most — books — but in a fashion which prevented his strength of feeling breaking through . |
| 20 | IT is still too early for Tim Godwin to contemplate the future without his wife Julie , who was so brutally murdered in South Africa . |
| 21 | ‘ Do n't you see — ca n't you remember how it was ? ’ he asked , when everything was so indelibly imprinted on her mind that she knew she would never forget a moment of it . |
| 22 | The second one was much more difficult because I had to come up with a script every couple of weeks , and there was so much crammed into each one . |
| 23 | Their contribution is perceived as threefold : they were long-standing rivals of Gloucester , which virtually guaranteed a power struggle in 1483 ; the favour shown them by the king had made them unpopular with the rest of the Yorkist establishment ; and they were so closely identified with the young king , Edward V , that any limitation of their power could only be made permanent by his deposition . |
| 24 | Their contribution is perceived as threefold : they were long-standing rivals of Gloucester , which virtually guaranteed a power struggle in 1483 ; the favour shown them by the king had made them unpopular with the rest of the Yorkist establishment ; and they were so closely identified with the young king , Edward V , that any limitation of their power could only be made permanent by his deposition . |
| 25 | The progress of the West Indian colonies was particularly important to Britain because they were so closely linked to her economic development . |
| 26 | The graves had to be searched for in what looked like a clearing in a pine wood , they were so thickly overgrown with grass and heather . |
| 27 | ‘ Second Empire style ’ was copied and transplanted to other European capitals , and even to the New World and it was so closely identified with the Emperor himself that it was sometimes referred to as Style Napoléon III . |
| 28 | It was so well hidden by forest , however , that they were almost upon it before she really had the chance to look . |
| 29 | The fact of union , coupled with its repeated reaffirmation , has resulted in a position where only a blind man could assume that the power of the Westminster Parliament to sever it was so well established in general acquiescence that none would deny the propriety of its exercise . |
| 30 | The breed was largely restricted to its light-soiled native area in East Anglia , especially on the poorer , sandy Suffolk lands where it was so well adapted to living on sparse , low-quality grazing that on good pasture it would grow too much and become coarse in the bone . |