Example sentences of "[noun pl] which [be] so [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Selectors should also avoid books which are so tightly bound that they have to be held forcibly open . |
| 2 | They were hardly affected by the deluge , even though their diet consists very largely of the very riverbed invertebrates which were so badly affected . |
| 3 | Along the new streets came new housing , the apartment buildings which are so closely identified with their originator that they are stylistically described simply as ‘ Haussmann ’ . |
| 4 | The trade unions have sustained the Labour party over all these years and Labour gave the trade unions the appalling powers which were so badly abused in the run-up to the 1979 election when , as we all know , the country was brought to its knees by a new strike almost every week . |
| 5 | The magazine served to reinforce my own feelings that we in the UK must fight to preserve lesbian and gay rights which were so hard won and which Mrs Thatcher seems determined to destroy . |
| 6 | There are few occupations which are so tightly professionalized as the academic profession ( Perkin 1973 , Neave 1979a ) ; a fact which helps to explain why on the whole it seems to work fairly harmoniously with the ‘ external ’ professions . |
| 7 | Visible expression of his anxiety could be found in his fingernails which were so savagely bitten that his sheets were often stained with blood . |
| 8 | It should be possible to obtain a compromise which is effective in the legislation and which says , in effect , ’ There will be some crossings which are so rarely used that people are not inconvenienced by their closure . ’ |
| 9 | Of course some policemen and women , at the other extreme , welcomed the research as an opportunity to talk about issues which are so often taken for granted among colleagues and family that they are not topics of conversation . |
| 10 | Do all discourse types have parts which are so easily named ? |
| 11 | What may be thought surprising is the absence of Celtic deities which are so well represented in stone sculpture and reliefs , especially in the west . |