Example sentences of "[be] so [adv] [verb] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ideally , we should build some flexibility into the Library 's financial management systems to cope with changes , but at present we are so tightly constrained by cost factors that we have no room for manoeuvre . |
| 2 | They are then disagreeably surprised when the resentments and even despair which are so often concealed by silence break out in angry and violent rebellion . |
| 3 | ‘ The most blameworthy acts are so often absolved by success that the boundary between what is permitted and what is prohibited , what is just and what is unjust , has nothing fixed about it , but seems susceptible to almost arbitrary change by individuals . ’ |
| 4 | From the previous year he had been so badly affected by osteoarthritis that his mobility had become very restricted . |
| 5 | And now she was frightened of him — Dr Neil , who was so kind and good , and had already been so badly damaged by life … |
| 6 | A general textbook on the law of tort is no place for an extended discussion of the specialised law relating to trade disputes but those disputes have provided most of the ‘ raw material ’ for the development of the common law and their legal regulation has been so substantially modified by statute since 1906 that some account of the legislative intervention is necessary . |
| 7 | It should be self-evident , therefore , that where individual behaviour can be so extensively influenced by conformity to the standards of the social groups that make up our community and its social strata , then there will be major implications for the marketer . |
| 8 | Indeed , Ramsay 's secret societies , the Nordic League and the Right Club , were so easily penetrated by intelligence agents , and the government has now released some of this material , that when this information is checked against independent sources it becomes possible to present a plausible account of what the British fascists were up to during 1939 and 1940 . |
| 9 | In passing judgement on these crucial issues the historian is so easily blinkered by hindsight . |
| 10 | It was so well hidden by forest , however , that they were almost upon it before she really had the chance to look . |
| 11 | Sandy was so much taken by surprise that her sickness was forgotten . |