Example sentences of "so [adv] be [verb] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 72 per cent said that nutritional information made it easier to choose the healthy , balanced diet , which has so long been urged by health educationalists and consumer bodies . |
| 2 | In November 1983 Milan Kundera wrote an essay for Le Débat , in which he argued that Russia could never really be considered part of Europe because it had for so long been dominated by Caesaropapism , where the civil emperor is also the supreme religious leader . |
| 3 | As unwanted pregnancies can so easily be avoided by abortion and contraception , why is illegitimacy now so high ? |
| 4 | To what extent such metrical methods will be used only in specialized analyses remains to be seen , for as Stewart ( 1954 ) suggests , it may be rather a waste of effort to measure such specimens simply to verify what can so quickly be seen by eye . |
| 5 | All cultural norms about basic needs for food , shelter and so on are seen by contrast as expressions of subjective desire , even though these desires will have been shaped by the standards of a particular society . |
| 6 | One of the chief limitations on cowries as currency is that their value was liable to be severely depressed by reason of the huge quantities in which they occur in some areas and the fact that they could so readily be transported by ship . |