Example sentences of "so [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The method has become so ensconced in public law thought that today we seem incapable of recognizing any work which predates Dicey ; it is as though he invented the subject . |
| 2 | The legitimacy of present-day regimes depends to an overwhelming extent , and has so depended since the end of the Second World War , upon the effective promotion of a high rate of economic growth ; and if that rate becomes increasingly difficult to sustain , and tends to decline , as a result of both social and physical limits to growth , what will take its place as a legitimating purpose for governments ? |
| 3 | That ‘ inwardness ’ so prized by some English readers , and characteristically found by them ( implausibly ) in Lawrence , is an attention directed so far ‘ inward , that it can never come to the surface for long enough to notice how the sunlight breaks upon the edges and volumes of a piece of sculpture ; and that is why indeed such readers can not use the word ‘ aesthetic ’ except ‘ in a limiting sense ’ . |
| 4 | I myself had never witnessed a stoning , but Omar had done so on three occasions and had taken great delight in describing to us the fate that awaited weak women who did not carefully guard their honour which was so prized by their men . |
| 5 | If the dead live , the living are as dead as the focal statue of the mother and child , for Sir Leicester has no children , and the domestic affections , so prized by the Victorians , have departed from his house . |
| 6 | The principle of judicial independence i– so prized by judges that Lord Lane , the Lord Chief Justice , has refused even to meet Home Secretaries to discuss sentencing policies . |
| 7 | They are used to ‘ tan ’ leather and give rise to the ‘ termite-proof ’ and ‘ teredo-proof ’ timbers so prized in tropical construction . |
| 8 | How does it happen that these stimuli are so arranged in space that the right kinds of cells appear in the right places ? |
| 9 | The most commonly used statistic is average waiting time per specialty , but that figure varies with local definitions and is so skewed by interconsultant variation that it is virtually meaningless . |
| 10 | Producers were so busy fighting their own corner , and so mesmerized by the success of Hollywood , that they did n't have the strength to argue that keeping the industry fragmented and flexible , learning from Hollywood 's example without simply imitating its outward forms , might be a better way of catering for a market the size of Britain than heading up the road of monopoly . |
| 11 | But it is important not to become so mesmerized by them as to lose sight of the underlying social processes . |
| 12 | This is a common reaction to the effect of the remedy and you should wait and expect to see an improvement over the next few minutes or an hour or so depending on how severe the illness is . |
| 13 | Without going into the minutiae of the terms of these and other benefits , it is important to appreciate that the former is means tested , so depending on the financial circumstances of your spouse , marriage could result in your benefit being stopped . |
| 14 | These pungent performances are a signal reminder of why Barbirolli was so favoured by this composer . |
| 15 | In the apartment Sam Somerville had been dozing on the couch , once so favoured by Quinn , because it was right next to the flash phone . |
| 16 | The surrounding area is damp and so favoured by colourful plants such as the Marsh Marigold , Ragged Robin and Yellow Flag Iris . |
| 17 | ‘ In the last few minutes one of the party of missing students — ’ Kath let out her breath on a gust ‘ — has made his way to the surface , and he has told us that there are still two men trapped below here , ’ he announced in the earnest voice of sepulchral doom so favoured by reporters at the scene of an incident . |
| 18 | Malcolmson has commented that a result of this withdrawal of patronage by the gentry and the better-off farmers as social distance increased was that " a solid barrier so developed between the culture of gentility and the culture of the people " . |
| 19 | This overriding goal entails that the best constitutional arrangements each person can reach while acting in conformity with his own moral ideals are morally valid , and since the commonly agreed upon arrangements are so regarded by everyone , they are morally binding on all . |
| 20 | It is not said on the form containing the request that the judicial view will be treated as confidential , but it has always been so regarded by the Lord Chief Justice and the judges . |
| 21 | I had done very little imaginative work and would not have regarded this as my greatest negotiating success , but it was certainly so regarded by Harold Wilson who assured me that my name would be kept out of the proceedings , since I had then , and retain , a keen dislike for gratuitous publicity . |
| 22 | They no longer regarded themselves as objects of charity and resented being so regarded by the hearing world . |
| 23 | Granada 's defence that the words were not intended to refer to the plaintiff and would not have been so regarded by reasonable viewers was rejected by the jury , after hearing that the officer had received " unpleasant and damaging " comments afterwards . |
| 24 | When you have thought about all these things , when you have fully absorbed into the darkest parts of your mind the sub-human horror of them , you will realize , must realize , with the blinding force of a revelation that I could not by the very nature of my soul be so implicated in such a maze of lust and filth . |
| 25 | President Bush , under a drizzle of criticism , was finding his nominee for the CIA directorship , Robert M Gates , was so implicated in earlier bits of skulduggery as to be a tough item to sell . |
| 26 | she wo n't mind so push past week four she might |
| 27 | Mr. Philipson also submitted that the Bank of England could properly exercise their supervisory powers under the Act without the breaching of customers ' confidences , and even went so far as to submit that the Schedule 3 information could be so furnished by clothing details of customers ' loans or deposits with anonymity . |
| 28 | You 've been such a good and loyal friend to me all these years , and I know it was wrong of me to ask something so demanding of you , but … ’ |
| 29 | In theory it is possible to obtain insurance against warranty liability ( e.g. Directors and officers ) but in practice the insurers are normally so demanding in the kind of confirmations they require and so restrictive as to what they will insure ( eg not taxation ) that this is rarely practicable or worthwhile . |
| 30 | The second consequence was to limit the number of executions by the early 1960s to no more than three or four a year , so bringing nearer the prospect of total abolition by the classic , if inglorious , means of English penal reform : diminution , disuse , abandonment . |