Example sentences of "[adv] so [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The act may have been intended as a " final measure " by those who wished to steady things , but the flow of politics is rarely so easily contained by the comma of a constitutional concession . |
| 2 | To use the words of Henry James : ‘ in the light , strange and coloured , like that of a painted picture , which fixed the impression for her , objects took on values not hitherto so fully shown ’ . |
| 3 | They had an interest in playing golf together so specifically formed a society giving it the name of the road they happened to be in at the time — Worple Way , Harrow . |
| 4 | Now Hungarian poetry may begin to change towards a poetry which is more autonomous , more self-subsistent with its own themes and materials , not necessarily so directly structured by our political situation . |
| 5 | Dr Neil , thus so firmly rebuked , closed his eyes . |
| 6 | What is actually meant is that the world is no longer so clearly divided as it was in the 1950s and 1960s into two armed camps of allies , with China , after 1960 , causing something of a schism in the Russian camp . |
| 7 | If people were no longer so easily frightened into docility , new ways would have to be found to make them ductile . |
| 8 | I am merely asking for an extension of the logic which is already so well known to Marsham street . |
| 9 | The information is already so widely dispersed throughout the chemical literature that Pople and coworkers , realising the immense problems and complexities involved in organising a bibliography , decided to set up a database . |
| 10 | As Leo XIII has already so clearly set forth : ‘ … |
| 11 | The effluent is already so highly diluted as not to be dangerous , and the resulting near-pure water will be used in ICI cooling towers . |
| 12 | The same is true of Univel — already so tightly bound to Novell it uses the same premises and the self-same order-entry system . |
| 13 | The French , the Dutch , and the Spanish were ready to attack them , and over so widely scattered a set of islands the attacker would always find some weak spot to invade and devastate . |
| 14 | They 're just so well made and so rugged — they 're workhorses . |
| 15 | In other institutions ( probably because of the greater quantity of compulsory core work ) this was not so frequently referred to . |
| 16 | Druggets are made in India and the Balkan countries , usually from a combination of goat hair , cotton and jute , and are equally cheap and cheerful , but not so frequently found . |
| 17 | The Rorim itself was not so well defended , but they had enough men to neutralise Bragad and hold the gates — for a while . |
| 18 | Sandys ' proposals were not so well received inside Whitehall . |
| 19 | As far as possible , a specialist will compare the pottery with other examples ( usually called ‘ parallels ’ ) that have been securely dated , but if the only other examples of a type of pottery are not so well dated , the specialist points this out , giving references to the parallels that have been used . |
| 20 | But although they might be better mounted , by normal standards , they were not so well horsed for rough riding as were the Borderers on their tough , sure-footed hill ponies ; on this terrain the fleeing men ought to be able to keep ahead . |
| 21 | A chemical breakdown can be achieved by the addition of any readily available nitrogen source such as sulphate of ammonia , or Nitro-chalk , but these soluble salts can inhibit bacterial action and the end-product is not so well balanced and does not produce such good results . |
| 22 | But there might be other , more dangerous examples of his getting personal , and with people who are not so well balanced . |
| 23 | The men 's feelings were not so well defined and they were not to be diverted from their search for tea . |
| 24 | When it comes to television sets , Latin Americans are not so well endowed . |
| 25 | Sometimes the final stage of the journey is made by local chartered coach which is not so well equipped , but we do make comfort stops for smokers and sometimes for meals , at the discretion of the crew , at all stages of the journey . |
| 26 | Others are not so well informed . |
| 27 | Neighbours who were not so well thought of stood and watched at gun-point , while their homes went up in flames . |
| 28 | Where once price was all , now predators are not so well thought of . |
| 29 | He was tough and strong , disciplined and unselfish — he was the epitome of the goal-maker , whose efforts were recognised by his colleagues and opponents and by the discerning fan , but were perhaps not so well appreciated by less perceptive onlookers or pressmen . |
| 30 | Benjamin Franklin s contribution to the identification of electricity in the form of lightning is well known , but not so well appreciated are the subtlety and simplicity of his apparatus and experiments . |