Example sentences of "so [adv] [verb] by the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | That cynical interpretation of the commitment of all those dedicated professionals who are carrying forward the first wave of trusts is so bitterly resented by the health service , which is why the Labour party has lost all credibility with the health professionals . |
| 3 | Prospective Labour MP for the town Alan Milburn said : ‘ Hundreds of people have been forced into dire straits because the town has been so badly hit by the Government inspired economic slump ’ |
| 4 | So , after lunching at one of the excellent local inns , we contented ourselves with making a wide sweep South to the River Dove and back up to the Derwent , — stopping at Castleton which , with its show caves and fluorspar ( Blue John stone ) mines should n't be missed and at Eyam which was so badly ravaged by the pestilence of 1665/6 that it is still known as The Plague Village . |
| 5 | So , after lunching at one of the excellent local inns , we contented ourselves with making a wide sweep South to the River Dove and back up to the Derwent , — stopping at Castleton which , with its show caves and fluorspar ( Blue John stone ) mines should n't be missed and at Eyam which was so badly ravaged by the pestilence of 1665/6 that it is still known as The Plague Village . |
| 6 | The exceptionally high absenteeism on Mondays and Fridays , which necessitated employing thirty per cent more workers than was economically justified , was not so much caused by the demon drink ; but because … etcetera , etcetera … . |
| 7 | Leonard was not so much brutalised by the experience , as anaesthetised : hence the recollection of only desire throughout his youth . |
| 8 | This raised a cheer from the French , but I must admit the day belonged to Geordie and his special attributes , so much appreciated by the French . |
| 9 | Further , the word ‘ communion ’ , a term again involving a verbal identification of Church and Eucharist , was so much used by the Council that it has subsequently been seen to express the Council 's ecclesiology most profoundly and has been made great use of in such documents as those of ARCIC . |
| 10 | Madam Deputy Speaker I did n't mention those at all in the speech I gave last week which was so warmly received by the house . |
| 11 | I sincerely hope that we shall have a change of Government in the not-too-distant future , and that my right hon. Friend the Member for Sparbrook will be able to rectify the wrongs that have been so obviously perpetrated by the Government on the prison service during the past 12 years . |
| 12 | But the even greater crisis , so brutally illustrated by the closeness of the vote , is over John Major 's leadership . |
| 13 | He was experiencing something utterly new for him : his first controlled passage into a geistzone under the guidance of an oolerinnen ; his first safe transit of the threshold for so long guarded by the bone , wood and bird-wing magic of the shaman . |
| 14 | But brief mention of them will be made here as the opportunities for ward learning are so greatly enhanced by the provision of appropriate resources . |
| 15 | She did not go into details : that she found herself so physically revolted by the process that she had begun to retch , nor despite being warned that all new mothers had a fit of the blues after giving birth , she had been crying most of that day . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Nothing much hangs on my own , so easily distracted by the swoop of a crow or the amazing bright green of raspberry leaves as the sun floods our hillside acre . |
| 18 | The act may have been intended as a " final measure " by those who wished to steady things , but the flow of politics is rarely so easily contained by the comma of a constitutional concession . |
| 19 | I was surprised that my failure to get an audience for my paintings was so quickly overcome by the act of writing about them . |
| 20 | Any reader literal enough to doubt Quinn 's success in those matters is likely to be diverted by the thrust and crackle of action rapidly described and by the element of chance so quickly exploited by the boy . |
| 21 | In the circumstances , hotel use was clearly a good second best , as it meant that the staterooms could be used for functions and so still seen by the public . |
| 22 | This was the actuality of the pretty designs so liberally provided by the cottage enthusiasts of the time . |
| 23 | He was still walking within the rhythmic pulse of an old dream , a vision that had been so wantonly interrupted by the person from Porlock . |
| 24 | Effeminate , spoilt and faithless , he was a bitter disappointment to her , and was so thoroughly despised by the rest of the Court that when she became pregnant there were rumours about the child having possibly been fathered by one of her favourites . |
| 25 | But who constituted " the people " , whose rights against monarchs were so ringingly asserted by the Calvinist and Huguenot writers ? |
| 26 | Successful business transactions hinge on the overcoming of cultural barriers to communication , with the consequent emergence of a localised negotiated order , not so clearly dominated by the host society and its culture . |
| 27 | It is , for example , possible that those in the treated group who have succumbed are a particularly susceptible group within the whole ; whether that is likely will be more easily assessed when the data so far gathered by the study have been analysed to show the fate of subgroups , for example those with different CD cell counts at their recruitment . |
| 28 | It has also been shown that more sensitive judgements can be obtained from children when the power figure — so often represented by the adult — is removed ( Lloyd and Donaldson , 1976 ) . |
| 29 | It is significant that recent government policies have sought to give parents more power and influence in school — to elevate parenthood and , by giving parents ' views more weight , counter the claim to exclusiveness so often made by the teacher . |
| 30 | We should not ignore collectivism , however , because it is so often used by the state in Japan to mobilize the support of those who have not benefited as much from the economic miracle , or by company leaders to exhort yet more effort from employees . |