Example sentences of "[modal v] so [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps such cases do not occur with the frequency one may so readily believe or that such cases do not get reported in the national press with the frequency that one might have expected ; or alternatively , perhaps the police are much more successful in capturing the so-called sex maniacs than we sometimes are led to imagine . |
| 2 | It should also be pointed out that Donoghue v. Stevenson established a principle of wider application than it may so far have appeared . |
| 3 | Reproach mingled with anger — anger that she did not wait , anger that another man should so easily have taken the woman he loved , anger that she should be heavy with another man 's child . |
| 4 | Did you not find it as strange as I did , that we should so immediately understand each other so well ? |
| 5 | Why he should hold them , why he should so strangely realize them , and above all , why he should have chosen me to be his solitary audience of one , remained a total mystery . |
| 6 | How sad that the FA should so unashamedly cheapen the wearing of an England shirt in the blatant pursuit of commercial gain , thus following the examples of teams like Arsenal and Manchester United who , on occasions , manage to achieve the appearance of circus clowns . |
| 7 | And as they passed the rows upon rows of back yards , the grey washing on curious pulleys , the backs of hardboard dressing tables , the dust-bins and the coal sheds , it occurred to her to wonder why she should so suddenly feel herself to be peculiarly blessed , and a dreadful grief for all those without blessings took hold of her , and a terror at the singular nature of her escape . |
| 8 | I burn with unrequited lust , he thought , surprised that a cliché should so accurately express what he was feeling . |
| 9 | It is my one great regret about this whole sorry business that at this crucial time in the Government 's fortunes , when I should so much have liked to be seen as a tower of strength , I am perceived by some as a point of weakness . |
| 10 | Yes , I should so much like to . |
| 11 | In the government 's view it is wrong that planning decisions about land use should so often result in the realizing of unearned increments by the owners of the land to which they apply , and that desirable development should be frustrated by owners withholding their land in the hope of higher prices . |
| 12 | She was coldly angry now that he should so calmly assume that what he desired was there for him to take . |
| 13 | Eudoxus initially is shocked by this possibility : ‘ Is it possible that any should so far grow out of frame that they should in so short a space quite forget their country and their own names ? ’ . |
| 14 | It made me appreciate just how frustrated she must so often feel . |
| 15 | It is not because , as they 'll so often claim , they ca n't do it , but rather that they wo n't do it . |
| 16 | It might so easily have turned otherwise . |
| 17 | But it might so easily have been ‘ killed ’ ! |
| 18 | I could so clearly see her coming between you and me , between us and our poetry , and I felt furiously jealous and unhappy but tried not to show it . |
| 19 | DeVore returned the bow , then turned , intrigued , wondering what it was about the boy that could so thoroughly spook the seemingly-imperturbable Douglas . |
| 20 | It could so nearly have cost him his life . |
| 21 | They are determined to find an answer to what could so nearly have been a tragedy . |
| 22 | Why bother , when we could so easily pay in cash ? |
| 23 | Just see how , in quite innocent conversation , she could so easily trip up ! |
| 24 | His tongue licked the small nerve-points that he could so easily locate , and she shivered even through the heat . |
| 25 | He had begun to feel that Carrie was really growing to love him , and having borne him his first child the future had seemed so promising , but now today he had been reminded that everything he had hoped and prayed for could so easily crumble into dust . |
| 26 | It is an important test , for impotence will not only be a poor recommendation of Community cohesion ; it could make it all the more difficult to stem the tide of bloody anarchy that could so easily engulf large tracts of Europe which we recently rejoiced to see set free . |
| 27 | There was something alarming in the way an eleven-year-old girl - or ‘ nearly twelve ’ as she kept saying — could so easily comport herself among a press of adults . |
| 28 | And with her jealousy came anger that he could so easily hold her in a close embrace while he still had Doreen in his system . |
| 29 | In an environment of danger , a touch on the shoulder could so easily mean arrest . |
| 30 | It could so easily spill over into civil disorder and violence . |