Example sentences of "[adv] be so [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet , although Lloyd George was the author of the Free City proposals , they were approved by the Americans and the French , and had the Poles not been so heavily engaged against the Soviets by this time , they might still have attempted to seize Danzig by force — there was certainly little the Germans could have done to prevent such a move . |
| 2 | Even had you not been so well acquainted with the family , I dare say . |
| 3 | Four knights at least , all Grey 's men ; and a rugged , thickset figure in half-armour , whose seat in the saddle was familiar , even if the black horse under him had not been so signally ornamented with his blazon . |
| 4 | There had not been such severe storms in southern England for hundreds of years , and the structure of woodlands had not been so regularly modified by gales as in the more stormy north of Britain . |
| 5 | It is probably the case that women have not been so seriously affected by long-term unemployment as have men in comparable occupations . |
| 6 | And now she was frightened of him — Dr Neil , who was so kind and good , and had already been so badly damaged by life … |
| 7 | In our cynical era , we might not be so easily bamboozled by ‘ the prophet 's ’ assertion that God , who is presumably on permanent nightshift , speaks to him in his sleep and has commanded the supply of seven frails . |
| 8 | Sometimes , however , the media can not be so easily deployed by political actors and the media may , in consequence , exert an indeterminate and sometimes capricious effect on the doings of political institutions and actors . |
| 9 | A method similar to that described above is still probably the most suitable for producing concave trunk mouldings for long-case clocks mentioned in Mr Robey 's second question although they may not be so easily manipulated over the saw bench , particularly if they are stop-ended as the ends may present problems . |
| 10 | ( This meant borrowing money and suffering a lot of hardships ; but they thought it would be worth it , because it would mean they could not be so easily discriminated against . ) |
| 11 | The majority of domains , however , do not share these characteristics and may not be so well represented within the LOB corpus . |
| 12 | The safeguards here may be very good , but they may not be so well understood by a police officer in another country who read about that suspicion . |
| 13 | Their relevance outside the situation for which they were designed , where eventual aims can not be so readily related to learning objectives , should not therefore be taken on trust ( see Widdowson 1983 ) . |
| 14 | But sonar echoes received from a narrow beam of sound directed dead ahead would not be so readily received by laterally placed ears . |
| 15 | Behaviour and DNA are uncomfortable partners , for mind functions can not be so readily consigned to a molecular coding . |
| 16 | ( 6 ) that the spending plans should be realistic in the impact they will make in any particular curriculum area ( e.g that the money should not be so thinly spread across departments as to be unlikely to influence significantly the work of any one of them ) |
| 17 | It has always been so greatly prized in Indian homes where it is served particularly on special occasions and whenever possible . |
| 18 | No medical text has ever been so widely used by successive generations of medical students and doctors . |
| 19 | So perhaps Mill 's claim is that the pleasurableness of life is all that matters but that this can not always be so well promoted by increasing the quantity of low level pleasure as by obtaining lesser amounts of high quality pleasure . |
| 20 | Beautifully played by Gidon Kremer , it would have been all the more welcome if , being the sort of work which does n't invite applause , it had n't been so closely associated with Offertorium as to seem to merge into it . |
| 21 | Beautifully played by Gidon Kremer , it would have been all the more welcome if , being the sort of work which does n't invite applause , it had n't been so closely associated with Offertorium as to seem to merge into it . |
| 22 | Society today is so often accused of being too mercenary , and yet the current strength of the RNLI as an organisation dependent on volunteers and voluntary funding must surely temper such an outlook . ’ |
| 23 | Typically , its social effect was highly ambiguous : this placing of the private at centre stage was in part a flight from harsher social conditions , in part a coded opposition to them : ‘ glam rock revelled in a display that was intent on demonstrating that the assumed ‘ privacy ’ of sexual matters then being so fervently insisted upon by Mrs Whitehouse , was an illusion' . |
| 24 | Balor had never been so rudely awoken from slumber in his life . |
| 25 | ‘ He is fine at present , ’ said Balding , who is running the gelding as an eight-year-old , being of the opinion that he will never be so well treated in the National by the handicapper again . |
| 26 | Never was so little done by so many . |