Example sentences of "so [adv] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | The principal reason why the methods of scrutiny in the House of Commons and the House of Lords differ so widely is that the House of Commons has traditionally seen its power as residing in the Chamber itself and in the power to call ministers to account on the floor of the House . |
| 2 | The rating on which young people do so badly is derived only from that fraction of employers who say they are different . |
| 3 | Another reason I like Dorset so much is for the windsurfing . |
| 4 | A seventeenth-century libertine who wrote excellent satirical verse ( he 's the author of the famous epigram about Charles II : ‘ God bless our good and gracious king/Whose promise none relies on ; /Who never said a foolish thing , /Nor ever did a wise one ’ — one of the reasons I like him so much is that allegedly he recited it extempore to the king ) and some great , great poems about sex . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , one reason why Mr Hammer 's message has been received so eagerly is that , to a large extent , he is preaching to the converted . |
| 6 | That maintenance was continued so long is probably due to the fact that Gordon Thomas , its instigator , had by this time become General Manager of the Grand Junction Company , and it is understandable that he would have been reluctant to preside over the disintegration of the lift , his most original and spectacular achievement . |
| 7 | How he had put up with my attitude for so long is a mystery to me . |
| 8 | Are you saying that , in fact , not having had sex for so long is a problem for you ? ’ |
| 9 | I shall draw a comparison with the Act that I mentioned earlier , whose survival for so long is a sign of its success — that establishing the Office of Fair Trading . |
| 10 | ‘ The reason people have been concerned about this case for so long is that it is about far bigger issues . |
| 11 | The devotion to duty which made him a surprisingly successful stalwart at Ibrox for so long is still evident in Miller 's conscientious work with his young players . |
| 12 | So anyway is the Health Service safe in the Tories ' hands ? |
| 13 | In sum , I 'm writing off an odd paradox , criticising her for sometimes seeing herself as second best when Katell Keineg so patently is n't . |
| 14 | An investigation into how he managed to escape so easily is now underway . |
| 15 | One of the main reasons why we forget things so easily is that all too often we see but do not really observe . |
| 16 | The ability of the cuckoo to lay its egg so quickly is a major adaptation of brood parasites . |
| 17 | The fact that the City was able to resume normal business so quickly is a tribute to the adequacy of the contingency planning . |
| 18 | The reason why the ’ three wise men ’ report was produced so quickly is that the three people whom I invited to deliver it — Mr. Alexander , Mr. Rose and Mr. Woodhead — had behind them a lifetime of experience and close involvement with primary schools , and they were able to distil that lifetime 's knowledge very rapidly . |
| 19 | But the reason I have sat down so quickly is because the old man has just popped out on the northbound platform . |
| 20 | Interesting that they 've done it so quickly is n't it ? |
| 21 | Whether they do so deliberately is a question that is still being debated . |
| 22 | Thus the point of the lives of those who are mainly engaged in politics , nursing , mining and so forth is to keep a society going in which personal love and the enjoyment of beauty can flourish . |
| 23 | The design and construction of manuals , parts lists , catalogues and so forth is an area that requires more control over the whole document than , say , a word processor but does n't require the control over every item that a page makeup program provides . |
| 24 | After lending him some clubs for a series of lessons and practice , the professional can successfully advise him what type of shaft , weight , lie , thickness of grip and so forth is appropriate in his case . |
| 25 | If all is relative , then protest against racism , sexism and so forth is at root an arbitrary subjective one — why should n't somebody be racist if all is a matter of mere opinion or expediency ? |
| 26 | population control in terms of sort of contraception awareness , so on and so forth is a major , the it can be a major means of reducing this particular problem . |
| 27 | And you 're not worried that the use of calculators at too early a stage would make a child quite incapable of understanding what addition and multiplication and so forth is |
| 28 | Unfortunately , the very poverty that afflicts older women so deeply is a major factor in their political acquiescence . |
| 29 | But such is the treacherous role of the trade union leadership that the victory over Grunwick management which had once seemed so near is now likely never to be realised . |
| 30 | Why these two methods of accounting are controlled so differently is a complex matter , but a factual difference is that in the context of companies depreciation is purely a matter of accounting , whereas for local authorities it is a matter of accounting and finance . |