Example sentences of "to [be] so [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Extract from a letter received from a disabled resident at Sussexdown ‘ It really is a privilege to be in such a lovely place , and to be so well cared for , there ca n't , I 'm sure , be another Home like it in the whole of Britain . ’ |
| 2 | Lucky child , to be so well cared for while others suffer so much ! |
| 3 | He felt a childish satisfaction in having that advantage on one who had claimed to be so well informed on such matters . |
| 4 | ‘ They thanked me very much and said how pleased they were to be so well looked after , then they kicked us in the appropriate part of the anatomy . ’ |
| 5 | In years to come Karelius was often to reflect that this was the first time he had heard mention of the man whose destiny was to be so closely entwined with his own . |
| 6 | She might well have done so ; it was , after all , a Catholic Scotland which was to be so closely allied with France . |
| 7 | I feel sure many of your readers will have been annoyed by the way your reporter allowed our accurate and detailed evidence to the Welsh Affairs Committee on the way some planning committees have violated planning policies over recent years , to be so easily dismissed by the chairman of one of the guilty district councils . |
| 8 | In the emergence of this ‘ young generation ’ of independent means lies the early identification of the sector of the population which was to be so effectively targeted by the market in the postwar era . |
| 9 | The clinical teachers tended to be so far removed from the key issues in healthcare that unless students performed allocated nursing ‘ tasks ’ in the standard way , they were viewed as ‘ poor ’ material . |
| 10 | However , the following day , when the floorboards were removed to examine the beam , it was found to be so deeply cracked in two places that they ascribed the fact that it had not given way to a ‘ wonder of [ God 's ] providence ’ . |
| 11 | But the word was not to be so lightly dismissed from his mind . |
| 12 | She was not in the least concerned at her mother 's solitary state but knew her to be so recently buffeted by events that she would not cavil at two visiting teenagers , although she had intimated to Sam that if she filled the house with them , she would kill herself . |
| 13 | Indirect Rule had far more ideological content than the Punjab creed : it was found necessary ceaselessly to draw attention — perhaps because it was a principle coming to be so explicitly disputed by those to whom it was applied — to the long and careful weaning required for the native to shed his primitive mode of thinking and adopt successfully the ways of the modern world . |