Example sentences of "a [noun] so [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had , quote , rarely seen a case so well managed as in this case , unquote . |
| 2 | It was time to jettison a faith so badly shaken by events , and be a convert to outdated gradualism after all . |
| 3 | His pursuit of the same approach in his cantatas arose perhaps from a firm conviction of what would succeed in a genre so closely allied to opera , perhaps from innate conservatism . |
| 4 | Ironically , Leeds failed partly because they adopted a tactic so often attributed to Scottish football , the aimless high ball . |
| 5 | They totalled seventy-six drawings and made such a lavish display , in a climate so obviously orientated towards a classical outcome , that they could almost be considered as a challenge to the sponsors with their instinctive bias towards classical architecture . |
| 6 | What could anyone under 50 do in a place so prosperously becalmed in its tangible past and agricultural present ? |
| 7 | But his distaste went deeper than irritation at an unwelcome complication to his inquiry , at the bizarre intrusion of irrationality into a job so firmly rooted in the search for evidence which would stand up in court , documented , demonstrable , real . |
| 8 | In a town with a name so closely associated with horses , Clair hopes her idea will turn out to be a winner . |
| 9 | It is now proposing a $25 million loan to Cameroon under its new Global Environment Facility ( GEF ) , to ‘ protect areas of tropical forest , ’ though this will be coupled with a $30 million forestry loan for ‘ sustainable management ’ of rainforests — a concept so far unproven in the tropics . |
| 10 | A collection so rarely seen as a compact whole , provided many with an eye opener as to the quality and range of the work housed in the University corridors and offices . |
| 11 | There can be no further argument , except perhaps to say that to preserve the symmetry and consistency of match conditions between first-class cricket and Test cricket , a tenet so assiduously sought by the working party in its proposals , the duration of Test matches should be reduced to four days ! |
| 12 | In a society so deeply divided by class ( and gender and race ) inequalities , and increasingly dominated by the privatised technological culture of late capitalism , the social purpose orientation alone is now inadequate , however admirable it may have been in the past . |
| 13 | That a man so well known in educational circles should be so ill-informed demonstrates the problems we had in helping our readers to understand our proposals . |
| 14 | It is ironic that this should have happened under a Government so strongly committed to decentralisation , privatisation and the reduction of the role of the state . |
| 15 | But back to Worcestershire , where Moody got two early Championship hundreds in a summer so far restricted for him by shin and ankle-ligament problems : where the worries over Dilley 's Achilles tendon and knee wo n't go away ; where Hick 's form remains enigmatic ; where left-hander Adam Seymour , the Millfield boy who switched from Essex — at appeared an astute and logical career move for him — has so far failed to make an impact on the banks of the Severn . |
| 16 | In the absence of anything comparable among the Greeks , I hesitate to attribute to royal initiative a translation so clearly born within the precincts of the synagogue . |
| 17 | With a background such as this it is hard to be optimistic about renewed efforts to achieve consumer success with a medium so firmly rejected by the market . |
| 18 | A lifelong member of the Oxford Cottage Improvement Society , Violet Butler joined the Charity Organization Society 's local branch , and her links with the Christian Social Union encouraged in her the unsectarian broad-church outlook that was taken for granted within a family so deeply influenced by Thomas Arnold , T. H. Green , and Henry Scott Holland [ qq.v . ] . |