Example sentences of "to so " in BNC.
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| 1 | By now I have already committed myself to so much , he wrote . |
| 2 | I finished up in Rome , home to so many of the works I lectured on , and on my last night there I took a walk down to Bernini 's Trevi fountain in order to throw in the coin that would ensure that somehow I would one day return . |
| 3 | But I 've talked , as you know , to so many women , and sex seems to be a wholly other experience . |
| 4 | It is this built-in contradiction and barrier to explication that leads to so much discussion of what Derrida really means by those riddling notions that have become slogans : such as , there is no such thing as perception ; writing is prior to speech ; there is nothing outside the text . |
| 5 | It seems that on the basis of Canto 7 we can explain Pound 's hostility to Virgil very simply indeed : it was precisely Virgil 's melancholy , the lacrimae rerum which endears him to so many , that Pound could not stomach , so sanguine as he was and so determined to remain so . |
| 6 | The switch from almost ignoring the issue in the first week to so much concentration in the third should have had some effect upon the public . |
| 7 | Here was the genesis of the myth , destined to lead to so many follies and disasters , that Britain was rich , as well as powerful , because of her Empire . |
| 8 | have been taken over with a vengeance and put into the anthropological perspective which in the poem Eliot has applied to so much past literature . |
| 9 | By the time I was ten it seemed I had lived backstage to so many of those early film sets . |
| 10 | According to this theory the earlier generational pairing was abandoned because it led to so much inbreeding that people who practised the gens system were genetically more fit for natural selection and therefore survived better . |
| 11 | ‘ Hold on to the sledge rails here — keep a loose grip or your hands get tired — try not to keep your foot on the brake ( a miniature snow hook held off the snow by an elasticated octopus grip ) or your other leg will get tired — do n't shout too much at the dogs or they get confused — the occasional quiet word is helpful — on downhills brake gently if you need to so that the line stays tight . ' |
| 12 | In its asides — quite apart from what he tells us about Milton — we see what it was about Lewis which struck W. T. Kirkpatrick as so remarkable , and which made him such a valued teacher and friend to so many people in the course of his life . |
| 13 | As Mr Imai 's analysis makes clear , the term keiretsu is used to refer to so many different kinds of industrial groups in Japan that generalising about all of them , and especially complaining about them as a group , makes little sense . |
| 14 | She ‘ ran away ’ to London in order to get sleep and rest and not have to talk to so many people every day . ’ |
| 15 | This is no elaborate , townie 's re-creation , overburdened with fancy aesthetics , but a living , breathing original — a mixture of plants for use and beauty , like those that appealed to so many artists around the turn of the century . |
| 16 | It can be surprisingly difficult to avoid , too , because it is added to so many foods and drinks . |
| 17 | If I am unfortunate enough to experience the untimely death of several people I am attached to so that it forms something of a pattern , then I am likely to experience considerable difficulty with my bereavements : there has been none of the unconscious preparation for the death of someone close that goes on in our awareness of incidents that are likely to occur . |
| 18 | All the doctors , psychiatrists and groups I 'd been to so far for help had made me feel worse than ever : could she be any different ? |
| 19 | I keep hammering away at this point but it applies to so many areas and it 's so rarely done . |
| 20 | It ended : ‘ Nonetheless , I consider myself to have been blessed to have had the chance to so serve for as long as I did . ’ |
| 21 | Bringing music to so many people has been the great satisfaction of my life . |
| 22 | SUCH of that European history which came to so terrible an ending in and around the battlefields of the Somme had its beginnings in the north Rhineland town of Aachen , Charlemagne 's capital , Aix-la-Chapelle ; because it was here , for more than half a millennium , that the Holy Roman Empire celebrated its mysteries . |
| 23 | It is the most astonishing part of all God 's providence to me , that He so far forsaketh almost all the world , and confineth His special favour to so few ; that so small a part of the world hath the profession of Christianity . ’ |
| 24 | Those fighter pilots were praised by Churchill , when he made his famous announcement that ‘ Never in the history of human conflict had so much been owed to so few by so many ’ . |
| 25 | Evolutionary theory , especially when applied to so complex a creature as man , has often advanced by what E. O. Wilson in his book Sociobiology : the new synthesis has slightingly termed the ‘ advocacy ’ method . |
| 26 | The tactile consciousness too , powerful as it may be in intimate contact , can not represent our wide apprehension of the world to so marked a degree . |
| 27 | She really would have preferred a cup of tea , but could n't refuse when they 'd gone to so much trouble . |
| 28 | As soon as the Trust got Brownsea the regulations about the discharge of sewage changes , they had endless trouble with the water supply , and now they 're having to find £300,000 to repair the sea wall , so I feel that , instead of being praised for being associated with getting Brownsea , I probably ought to be cursed for putting the Trust to so much expense . |
| 29 | It would not now be possible in one volume to do any kind of justice to so many . |
| 30 | He learnt all the signs and conventions , very quickly , not only because he made himself student to so many tutors , but because he watched so carefully everything that each one did , with that strange , silent , exhausting attention of his . |