Example sentences of "[be] so [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't believe we are so far from the nomad as people in Europe believe . |
| 2 | A rescue attempt had hitherto been so far at the back of his mind that , if some advanced speculations on the nature and shape of the many-dimensioned multiplexity of the universe were correct , it was right at the front ; but a magic sword was a valuable item … |
| 3 | Although Newby and his colleagues have demonstrated the dogged hold of traditional rural society on the levers of power , the changes foreseen by Pahl and Thorns , and documented by Ambrose , Connell , Radford and Pacione , may be only the foretaste of a much greater change in rural society , if the development of rural communities in California is a guide to the future as it has been so often in the past . |
| 4 | This will be so particularly in the case of goods which are of a very low price , so that there is little income barrier to their purchase . |
| 5 | Again Clare wondered if she had gone a bit too far , speaking so negatively about Gran 's novels , and being so emphatically against the trust . |
| 6 | One thing about him struck Pumfrey as being unboyish : he seemed to be taking no pleasure from being so sensationally at the centre of things . |
| 7 | So how does the team in Clearwater cope with being so far from the Abingdon headquarters ? |
| 8 | But one of the ironies of life in the border districts was that it also produced Poles who became more German the more nearly they were incorporated into the Polish state , and Poles and Jews whose political opinions were so far to the right that only their ethnic , religious or national identity stood between them and the Nazi Party . |
| 9 | Zakrevskii 's political opinions were so far to the right that he thought the Moscow Slavophiles were dangerous subversives ; his antipathy to modernization led him to deplore not only the construction of new factories in Moscow but also the expansion of old ones . |
| 10 | We were so far behind the group that King Hussein got us permission to fly the pipeline across Saudi Arabia ; the group which did not have the same permission had to backtrack to Luxor , before crossing the Arabian Peninsula . |
| 11 | The first choice — between tape , cassette or disc — may seem easy at the moment because videocassette is so clearly in the lead . |
| 12 | This is so particularly in the case of the House of Lords where the whipping system is less effective and where the cross-bench element is more important . |
| 13 | When we begin to appreciate more clearly and with greater precision how and why so many Third World countries are locked into a global system that is so patently against the interests of the majority of their peoples , we may find one of the keys to the development puzzle , and a valuable clue as to how the global system currently works . |
| 14 | Some students have been placed in difficulties by local authorities that have set a community charge that is so far beyond the reach of people that even the 20 per cent . |
| 15 | I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman is so far behind the evolution of his party 's policy . |
| 16 | This is so far from the truth that on the whole , for those really attending to education , the notion of innate given individuality has remained the stronger . |
| 17 | Though it is so far from the world in which most of us live today , it is difficult to over-emphasise the strength of the Church and the landed gentry at that time . |
| 18 | And they 're right , because the idea of wandering around with a radio-equipped , RISC-based , flat tablet , scribbling notes and then faxing them off Star Trek-style to headquarters , is so far from the reality of poor handwriting recognition , disappointing battery life , so-so screens and skyscrapingly high prices , that most users simply have n't bothered . |
| 19 | In the nervous systems of arthropods , for example — including insects and crustacea — the head ganglion — the brain — may be important , but is so only in the sense of King John amongst the barons ; there are many other ganglia distributed throughout the arthropod body , each with a considerable degree of autonomy . |
| 20 | That erm , made me laugh because he said to his secretary erm you know , I I honestly do n't think your time is she is so down in the mouth . |
| 21 | I , he er wants to have an image about the Labour Party that 's so far from the reality that it 's not true . |
| 22 | Director Danny DeVito says : ‘ Jack 's so far inside the role I wonder if he 'll ever come out of it . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Everyone 's so down in the dumps and poor . |
| 24 | The pain lies in the reminder how far , how irrevocably , hopelessly far we are from what we might once have had , from what was so nearly within the grasp . |
| 25 | That was so even before the introduction of poll tax . |
| 26 | Her heart was so strongly on the side of his that she feared she might give way . |
| 27 | If you had observed my father who arrived in this house a week after you did , you will have seen that his house knowledge is perfect and was so almost from the time he set foot in Darlington Hall . ’ |
| 28 | About a foot below the outwale there was a pretty bad hole which he 'd never felt concerned him , it was so far above the waterline . |
| 29 | In those days the prostate was so far below the standard of respectability that it could not even have been mentioned in the newspaper . |
| 30 | In 1627 a settlement was made on Barbados , which had two additional attractions : it was uninhabited , so the dangers of warfare with the Caribs did not arise , and it was so far to the east of the island chain that it was even better protected by the trade winds than any of the other islands . |