Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] so [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " What makes the history of England so eminently valuable , " wrote T. H. Buckle , " is that nowhere else has the national progress been so little interfered with , either for good or evil . " |
| 2 | The Wandjina images and the cult of the Rainbow Serpent are so closely aligned to Indian serpent worship that the probability of cultural interchange in some remote age is no longer a vague theory . |
| 3 | When the losses are recognized for what they are then the healing of the pain can begin , but so often the loss is so deeply buried in people 's minds that it can take a long while for it to come to the surface again . |
| 4 | That is why British industry is so adamantly opposed to that ridiculous directive . |
| 5 | For example , the small cell was so amply used in the classical period that one would think a composer of originality would have looked for something different . |
| 6 | As matters of race and social work are so frequently dealt with through rhetoric , a valuable opportunity to gain some ‘ facts ’ in this area was missed . |
| 7 | Had her dream hero been so deeply embedded in her heart that her mind had never stopped believing in him ? |
| 8 | This is what so fascinated the European Film Award Jury ( which included myself ) — that conventional thinking about the Provos , the Ascendancy , religion , prostitution and homosexuality were so confidently challenged within the film 's quite conventional framework . |
| 9 | Moreover we never look hard for what we do n't particularly want to find , and governments ’ revenues and manpower were so highly committed towards programmes of quantitative expansion ( particularly at secondary level ) and subsequently towards keeping the machine they had created running , that few people were prepared to question advice which suggested that a certain new activity could be safely ( and , hopefully , inexpensively ) tucked away at a centre or institute . |
| 10 | The death-adder in the Australian desert is so accurately matched to the colours and shapes of the gravel that it is almost impossible to detect , unless a movement draws your eye to it . |
| 11 | Although the Apache is remarkably docile its accident record in the USA is not among the best of the light twins , possibly because the type is so often employed in the training role . |
| 12 | The third question is so closely related to changes in the forms of rural settlement and to the growth and decline of towns that it is best considered in these contexts ; the present chapter will concentrate on the scale of mortality and the fluctuations in the total population of England in the century and a half before 1529 . |
| 13 | Among the points it made was that the Revival was ‘ simply the fruit of dilettante and antiquarian study ’ , and ‘ if thirteenth century architecture was so perfectly adapted to the circumstances of the day ’ , it can not therefore be so for the nineteenth . |
| 14 | Yes Chairman I 'd like to second that and just to erm say very briefly that er erm I , I very much welcome the report and the speed with which the Chief Officer is seen to have addressed most of the issues there are one or two bits that , that were of course were in fact posters , posters er be dealt with erm I have to say I still have some concern erm that the Chief Fire Officer and his team are so well supported on a very broad front on their decision making and their professionalism and yet on other matters of sound advice which has been given by er who are turned aside and just simply not given the proper consideration that they should have as in that er respect Chairman and I , I , I have some concern , erm it , it would not surprise me indeed if the , Her Majesty 's Inspector of er er brigades , when he comes round himself , has some comment to make on that since I think he 's expectations as well are almost as high as mine is . |
| 15 | Miss Picon and her husband were so profoundly affected by their experiences that for a long time after their return to New York they were unable to work . |
| 16 | If conventionalism were so single-mindedly practised in a particular jurisdiction and so often announced and confirmed by public institutions that people were thereby entitled to rely on that style of adjudication , of course it would be unfair for some judge suddenly to abandon it . |
| 17 | Reform is so urgently needed in so many matters of ethics . |
| 18 | It may seem superstitious , but it makes damned fine art , because the vision of release in salvation is so vividly nurtured in Christian history . |
| 19 | In fact , anything of a business , property or joint financial nature is so well starred at the end of this month — only the most disillusioned Aries individual could fail to see that what lies ahead is the stuff that dreams are made of . |
| 20 | perhaps that 's why Bushmills Whiskey is so often referred to as ‘ the gargle ’ . |
| 21 | There is an assumption behind all this that size does matter , which seems to be belied by the fact that IBM 's enormous $60,000m a year bulk has been unable to save the company — but IBM 's problems all arise from the fact that the company 's business is so hopelessly slewed to one sector of the market , with products that fewer and fewer people are going to be happy to own . |
| 22 | But since the nature of their business is so inexorably linked with valuable information legitimately acquired , it is difficult to ensure that this information is not illegitimately used . |
| 23 | ‘ In many instances , ’ writes Godwin , ‘ these hotbeds fever and vice are so effectually hidden by goodly houses that the inhabitants of the latter are scarcely aware of the poverty and disease which exist within a stone 's throw from their own doors . ’ |
| 24 | Of course , it may be objected that the very notion of an ‘ art-object ’ is a cultural construct peculiar to certain traditions , but that notion is so deeply embedded in Western culture that it is difficult to dismiss it . |
| 25 | The concept is so closely linked with his names that it is difficult , sometimes , to separate the two . |
| 26 | Water is so often taken for granted that few people consider what is needed in a supply until the matter is forced upon them by a shortage or a change in properties that affect the running of a works . |
| 27 | And although always implied rather than broadcast , this rejection of intellectualism is so well understood throughout the service that it has even affected those to whom Bramshill scholarships to University have been offered , and many turn them down . |
| 28 | But for the moment it is enough to recognize that even unanimity can have its problematic aspects ; and , since unanimity is so rarely achieved on a large scale , we need to consider next the next best thing , the principle with which democracy is very often crudely identified : majority decision-taking or majority rule . |
| 29 | Because the advisory service was so deeply enmeshed in PNP , it is difficult to divorce its contribution from the many aspects and contexts of the programme which are discussed elsewhere in this report . |
| 30 | Einzig was so frequently seen in Minton 's company that to outsiders it seemed as if she became his other half . |