Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] so [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No wonder women are treated so badly in the world when even an organisation such as Amnesty judges them in terms of their lives only meaning something if they can ‘ belong ’ to a man . |
| 2 | The emphasis which has been placed so far on the curriculum is intentional . |
| 3 | What we want to do this morning is erm tt talk a little bit to you about er the quality system and the I S O Nine Thousand procedures and er documented er systems , which have been developed so far within the whole group . |
| 4 | It is rather strange that so little attention has been given so far to the mechanical properties of biological materials , though perhaps in human terms it is understandable . |
| 5 | On the contrary , ‘ few things are regarded so cheaply as an animal 's life … |
| 6 | Sally went , relieved at not having had her love bite spotted but filled with indignation at having been blamed so unjustly for the Gran Bristow episode . |
| 7 | The issue has been considered so far in the narrow context of a union between an operated transsexual and another . |
| 8 | No use has been made so far of the dynamical equation . |
| 9 | The attention paid to authentic workwear style on fashion pages , much of it in this magazine , has not been matched so readily on the nation 's streets . |
| 10 | ‘ Or because they 're built so close to the ground . ’ |
| 11 | The MPs said the bank had to accept responsibility for its failure as BCCI 's supervisor , which had been demonstrated so clearly in the report by Sir Thomas Bingham , a High Court judge . |
| 12 | An event a quarter of a century ago sparked off the nationalist project that has now been brought so violently to an end . |
| 13 | Sweden is the latest country to suffer from criminals fiddling with mobile phones to re-direct bills — thousands of phones were stolen , altered and sold back to the market as ‘ no charge phones ’ : 10 people have been arrested so far for the crime , which came to light when some subscribers reported bills of $70,000 more than they were expecting ; police said that some of the men arrested were associated with the the Swedish state phone company Televerket and L M Ericsson Telefon AB , Reuter reports from Stockholm . |
| 14 | Political prosecutions and political imprisonment may be deemed so far in the past as to be without modern day relevance . |
| 15 | This shuttling back and forth between the personae could only be done so adroitly by a poet exceptionally sensitive to the status and function of pronouns . |
| 16 | Though Came , with its moderate , manor house proportions , may seem on the small side to be set so grandly in a park , Sir John Damer certainly did n't skimp on employing the very best craftsmen in all London . |
| 17 | This is the process of ‘ structuration ’ which can be observed so clearly among the British upper class , as we have argued through this section . |
| 18 | Animals such as mussels would not be spread so liberally around the world — indeed they could not have evolved at all — unless they had a phase as mobile plankton . |
| 19 | However anyone looking to it for an explanation of how women have come to be excluded so completely from the control of machines , or even for a theoretical framework within which to pose such a question , is in for a disappointment . |
| 20 | Experience at the Birmingham Money Advice Centre ( see Appendix III ) shows that — at least for the generally poor people who go to the Centre with money problems — mail order , check traders and other weekly callers such as tallymen are woven so closely into the fabric of daily ( or rather weekly ) life as to be more than just a possible buying choice . |
| 21 | Why , in Oxford , has it been left so far to the police , the voluntary sector and private sponsorship to try to cobble together a scheme ? |
| 22 | One result of this attitude was that the strain placed by warfare on the economies of most European States was less than the mere number of men engaged in fighting might seem to indicate , since these were drawn so largely from the least productive elements of society . |
| 23 | Since the unions were tied so closely to the Labour Party , this was important for the party 's standing in the election . |
| 24 | Not only that , but because the Davis Cup ties were scheduled so soon after the Australian Open , there was no time for Holland 's Richard Krajicek , or Germany 's Michael Stich to recover in time from injuries to take part . |
| 25 | In August , near Worth , he sent his mother " a memoir of the horribly devastated battlefield , scattered all over with countless mournful remains and reeking with dead bodies " and in December he wrote to a friend : " if one is to avoid losing all courage , one must not think of these frightful things any more " It is apparent how far removed this mood was from any chauvinistic or militaristic fervour — nor would we particularly expect any such fervour ( despite long established misconceptions about Nietzsche 's attitudes ) from one whose ideas of German nationhood were moulded so largely by the cultural preoccupations of a Hölderlin or a Schopenhauer . |
| 26 | It is sited beside and underneath the Al-Rasheed hotel , which explains why some nondescript buildings around the hotel — the conference centre for instance , were hit so often during the war . |
| 27 | It is difficult to imagine such an exhibition being taken so seriously by the art world today . |
| 28 | Why has it been extended so far beyond the large-scale political contexts where it was needed , to permeate modern ideas about choice and freedom ? |
| 29 | This is , of course , easier said than done because , unfortunately , not much has been achieved so far in the way of identifying signals of information status in various languages . |
| 30 | Ultimately ( figure ix ) after even further repeated use , the base-line stating position is shifted so far towards a depressed state that even the trusted substances and behaviour of addiction can not restore the mood to its original starting position from before they were ever used . |