Example sentences of "[verb] so [adv] a " in BNC.

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1 But from my own researches it became plain to me that she was very much a person of her times , as compared with Beatrice Webb who became so much a critic of her times .
2 I dare say that is why you were induced to accept so low a wage . ’
3 The more products , the higher number of prospects will be interested , although a balance has to be struck so as not to provide so wide a range as to make it confusing .
4 Their Empire holds so short a Reign ;
5 Each member contributed so much a week to form a common fund .
6 Nevertheless , on the material before the court , it was not necessary to impose so long a term of imprisonment .
7 So , when Mr Goodman enquired about him , George was eager to come to Selhurst Park and most Palace historians agree that , had he done so even a month before the end of 1924–25 , the Palace would never have been relegated from Division Two .
8 Though initially little more than special pleading for Liverpool shipping interests , his journalism taught him radical attitudes , most notably a hatred of the Foreign Office , for according so low a priority to West Africa , and a sympathy for African culture , which was reinforced by meeting the traveller Mary Kingsley [ q.v. ] in 1899 .
9 What strange quirk of the heart made me feel so much a part of the life of this place ?
10 That epicanthic fold over the eye , which seemed so much a part of the android 's ‘ difference ’ — its machine-nature — was here , on the natural man , quite attractive .
11 She knew that even if Miss Clinton had n't had so long a start , her daddy would have little hope of catching her up in his old car .
12 Whenever I hear a man being witty or sensible or kindly or civilized I think : the qualities which now seem so much a part of this man could be stripped away at any time , and there would be left just a man who suffered and who fought with his suffering like an animal .
13 Even so , to proclaim so dogmatically a single-figure norm ( instead of something attainable such as 10 per cent ) was widely perceived to be a mistake .
14 To most , if not all , British trade union leaders it seemed to be suicide to follow Larkin 's " fiery cross " into a confrontation with the state in circumstances in which it was clear that their members would not follow them ; why should they make such a sacrifice for Larkin when they had been unwilling to do so only a year earlier for the London dockers ?
15 He would not miss so plain a possibility , but he could and would refrain from entertaining and proceeding on it until more is known .
16 He had enjoyed the performance but felt it had become so obviously a theatrical production that it was now a long way from what had taken place in the Middle Ages .
17 These ways have become so much a part of the fabric of dance that they are used almost unknowingly by teachers and dancers .
18 By 1945 , German ‘ solutions ’ in the east had become so much a part of the German view of the world and ‘ German historic destiny ’ that the Russians and the Poles , who had played human safety-valve to German ambition throughout their long joint histories , saw dismemberment of German territory in the east as the only possible long-term solution .
19 Punch is certainly one of the great British institutions , and has become so much a way of life as to make it impossible to imagine a world without it .
20 These characters have become so much a part of our own childhood that we almost forget their origin .
21 It was as if the train journey itself , the old-fashioned intimate compartment in which they had found themselves , the freedom from interruptions and the tyranny of the telephone , the sense of time visibly flying , annihilated under the pounding wheels , not to be accounted for , had released both of them from a carefulness which had become so much a part of living that they were no longer aware of its weight until they let it slip from their shoulders .
22 It has become so much a part of them that they are often unaware of its existence .
23 It had become so much a matter of routine that when she answered he came close to putting the phone down before he realized that all he 'd heard was , ‘ Hello . ’
24 We then start to read the familiar stories of ward closures and idle operating theatres which have become so much a part of the New Year celebrations and which the reforms were supposed to eliminate .
25 But it is possible to draw so tight a circle around an enlightened few that the picture becomes distorted in the opposite direction .
26 Both these lights are operative in the writings of the mystics as means by which man sees his own true nature and in doing so also a reflection of God ; it is a state in which they feel themselves to be most fully alive .
27 It is not easy , admittedly , at this point in time , when the Commonwealth seems so obviously a fig-leaf for imperial decline , to credit the extravagant hopes that once were entertained of it as the foundation of everlasting British dominion — influence , as it were , eternally made flesh .
28 ‘ To be honest , I 'm a bit tired of being described just as a jazz singer or with words like ‘ abstract ’ , ’ she says , responding to reviews that have tried a little too hard to distance her from the rave scene she still feels so much a part of .
29 LUCRETIA STEWART asks why the killing fields strike so deep a chord
30 I always seem to , I think we , we were always at Stanford Hall that we must , it was a must that we have a good programme because if somebody comes and there 's nothing doing , they think well you know yo I , I , you see I suppose I 've got that orientated into Guild work but a friend of mine enticed me to go to er a club and erm it 's just simply for any age group , any sex male or female , but you must bereaved you know and erm she is a widow and I was widow , so I went but you see we , we sat round and you just , there was nothing organised and to me who had always been organised , I just felt so like a lost soul you know and er then one chappie put some records on and you cou and you could n't dance to them and I said oh , you know to me I thought wh you know but I do n't want to do it , I 've got enough to do but , I , I was straight away , I was looking for the organisation behind it you know .
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