Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] be so [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About 50 per cent of the animals were so sev-erely maimed that they had to be put down . |
| 2 | The sole recipient of those monies was the Society , though the funds were so ingeniously routed , through companies and agents who were unaware of their place in the system , that nobody who serviced the Society in any capacity whatsoever knew of its existence . |
| 3 | Most of the copper roofs had disappeared off public buildings , to make driving bands for the shells being so voraciously expended at Verdun , and the park railings were about to follow the roofs . |
| 4 | The words were so softly spoken that she wondered at first if she 'd heard correctly . |
| 5 | The first is that despite what was said earlier about the unique nature of art-objects , the stance of being suggests why the arts are so frequently associated with the human , and are therefore regarded as central to the ‘ humanities ’ . |
| 6 | There was a certain amount of talking , since congressional votes on the contras were so finely balanced ; but in private this was war . |
| 7 | Howard would surely have approved of all that , but as so often in penal reform , the very advance of which the reformers were so proud led to an ironic and unforeseen development . |
| 8 | In Davos and St Moritz , the areas are so widely spread and rewarding individually that the idea of linking them scarcely arises . |
| 9 | The ideas are so well accepted now that , whilst the intellectual debts owed to Hess , and to Vine & Matthews , are still acknowledged in passing in modern geological textbooks , their crucial early papers on the subject are seldom specifically cited . |
| 10 | The battle took place on a Saturday , 14 October : because the armies were so evenly matched and the ground so difficult it lasted eight hours , a great time in a world where a decision was usually reached in just over two hours . |
| 11 | This stretches from just below the wing fringe down to a point level with the centreline of the single chevron ; the joins are so finely stitched as to be almost invisible . |
| 12 | However , this size of fretwire should please more of the people more of the time , and you ca n't deny that the fret job is superb ; the ends are so well finished you can almost see your reflection in them . |
| 13 | ‘ Milk cow Blues Boogie ’ ( 1955 ) is perhaps the best example since the techniques are so well integrated , though Elvis 's treatment of the song is at such a quick tempo that the operation of the techniques themselves is less clear than in ‘ Heartbreak Hotel ’ . |
| 14 | In many higher insects the maxillae are so greatly modified that they no longer retain any evidences of their primitive structure . |
| 15 | What made matters worse was that the police were so badly paid that they could be recruited only from poor , country districts and lacked the sophistication , education and even , Mahmoud suspected at times , mother-wit of city people . |
| 16 | You would have to be a professional cobbler-up of sit-coms to give much credence to the available scenarios , but just in case , I suppose they are that : a ) the tests were so incompetently performed that even a baboon 's sample would have produced the same reading as was clocked by the three athletes identically ; b ) the three runners were having a joke at the testers ' expense ; c ) the German trio was deliberately testing the vigilance of the drug monitors at a relatively out-of-the-way venue , for reasons of their own ; d ) that the samples were not urine at all but a draught of refreshing Lucozade , tested in error . |
| 17 | Oh , the solemn woods over which the light and shadow travelled swiftly , as if Heavenly wings were sweeping on benignant errands through the summer air ; the smooth green slopes , the glittering water , the garden where the flowers were so sympathetically arranged in clusters of the richest colours , how beautiful they looked ! |
| 18 | erm This also meant that you could n't move around very fast , the clothes were so tightly made , that for a large part of the time , you were immobile and glad to be , glad to be so . |
| 19 | The bodies of the victims were so badly burned they could not be counted . |
| 20 | Objects of all kinds occupied every inch of space and the walls were so thickly hung with pictures that smaller drawings lay flat or propped against their neighbours . |
| 21 | The floor was tiled , in diagonal squares of grey and white marble , and the walls were so densely covered with pictures and looking glasses that it was hard to tell whether or how they were papered , but the general tone and impression was of a deep purple and red . |
| 22 | ( h ) I have no evidence at all from her mother or from any other source that Miss T. 's following of some of the beliefs and some of the practices is so well thought out or deeply considered or sincerely held that the conviction is one which would necessarily lead her to an irrevocable refusal . |