Example sentences of "the [noun] so [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the philosopher-agronomists advocated new crops and new methods they were met with the excuse so often given to Cavanilles on his tour of Aragon , ‘ We do as our fathers do . ’ |
| 2 | In both the cases so far considered in this Chapter , the customer took the goods under an agreement between himself and the dealer . |
| 3 | But experience shows that language — and , particularly , language adopted or concurred in under the pressure of a tight Parliamentary timetable — is not always a reliable vehicle for the complete or accurate translation of legislative intention ; and I have been persuaded , for the reasons so cogently deployed in the speech of my noble and learned friend , that the circumstances of this case demonstrate that there is both the room and the necessity for a limited relaxation of the previously well-settled rule which excludes reference to Parliamentary history as an aid to statutory construction . |
| 4 | The result is a very friendly room without the formality so often associated with many dining areas . |
| 5 | Yusuf 's forces returned in strength and began to win back many of the states so recently conquered by Alfonso and by El Cid in their separate campaigns . |
| 6 | But the enthusiasm so often expressed in favour of change produced little movement within the industry . |
| 7 | The necessary contact could partly be maintained by means of meetings and round-table discussions of the kind so successfully organised at Uig for the Arkleton Trust , but it would be desirable to give it some more concrete , institutional form as well . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , taken together , the data so far reported for the role of endogenous fibrinolysis in patients with coronary ischaemia seem to suggest that the evaluation of tPA and PAI values might be helpful in the prognostic assessment . |
| 10 | Sources for the aircraft so far handled by NCA have included the Abu Dhabi , Kenya , Spain , Tanzania and Zambia air arms . |
| 11 | Such rigidities can be observed in organizations and institutions as well as whole cultures : the small , traditional engineering or textile firm which fails to adapt to the market and goes out of business ; the political party caught between renewal and betrayal ; the institution so deeply set in its ways that it is hardly aware of them . |
| 12 | Richard Morton is generally credited with the first medical description in 1689 and he poignantly captured the key clinical feature : ‘ I do not remember that I did ever in all my practice see one , that was conversant with the living so much wasted with the greatest degree of a consumption ( like a skeleton only clad with skin ) ’ . |
| 13 | Since then the Scots have perfected the art and , using the elements so generously provided for them by nature , distilled the whisky which today is inextricably woven into Scotland 's history , customs and culture . |
| 14 | The Soviet leader has had a more modest , though not dissimilar effect on East Germany , where his presence last weekend became a focus for calls for change of the type so steadfastly refused by his hosts . |
| 15 | This raises the question so far evaded in this chapter : What is policy ? |
| 16 | She turned the pages of the fashion magazine over , but her eyes did n't take in any of the models so enticingly displayed in its pages ; her attention was all focused inwards on herself . |
| 17 | He has enlisted Government help and interest in the RCA ; he has raised money for the renovations so badly needed at the college , and for building additional accommodation nearby for students . |
| 18 | He left when he was eighteen , presumably with the cry so often heard from those who look for instant wisdom in courses designed primarily to foster skills by which such discrimination may be attained : " the course can not give me what I am looking for " . |
| 19 | It was anger , she 'd thought suddenly , anger as sharp and cruel as the blade of a knife , as if he 'd held her responsible for the desire so clearly etched into his arrogant , handsome face … |
| 20 | But when Grainne came to the Castle , he knew himself lost , and he knew that the carapace so diligently acquired over the years was melting . |
| 21 | This Larrain does by attempting to understand the concept so vaguely used in The German Ideology in terms of the more specific materialist theory of the Grundrisse and Capital . |
| 22 | All the evidence so far pointed to the fact that he had done the killing . |
| 23 | But what of the criticism so often levelled at Leslie and myself that we have no idea how to run a football club ? |
| 24 | There are not constant outcries against the police , courts and prisons , so perhaps the Code works in a sufficiently balanced way , so as to blend at least reasonably well with the democracy so fervently fought for in Mexico 's history . |
| 25 | And indeed , even discounting the role so evidently played by nostalgia in Hume 's thinking , it was true that the administration of India , beginning with the viceroyalty of John Lawrence , had become steadily more centralized and more detached . |
| 26 | She was both friendly and intelligent with none of the vanity so often associated with beautiful women . |
| 27 | The inferences to be drawn from the exchanges so far identified between Washington and certain British ministers , however , hardly warrant the claim that American involvement in the Conservative party intrigues which led to Eden 's replacement was " somewhat analogous " to the Soviet role in the establishment of Janos Kadar in Hungary . |
| 28 | But the extent of the schemes should make us cautious about identifying radical structural change too readily even in the wake of the legislation so severely criticized in the 1980s . |
| 29 | Her tone bode no contradiction ; it was the voice so well remembered by all those who , over twelve years , had sat at her feet in a thousand Cabinets . |
| 30 | County voters , like their counterparts in the burghs , could be managed , and some of the politicians acquired considerable reputations for their skill in swaying voters , but does that justify the interpretation so sedulously propagated by early nineteenth-century reformers ? |