Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He therefore directed that if J. were to suffer a life-threatening event while in the health authority 's care and the required drugs and equipment were or could reasonably be made available , the health authority should cause such measures ( including artificial ventilation ) to be applied so long as they were capable of prolonging his life . |
| 2 | Even if this had been so — and Reagan worrying about Iran 's industrial base has the true ring of fantasy — the bartering was not to be turned so easily away from war , on either side . |
| 3 | Do species have to be maintained so uniformly and tidily , so predictably , as if they were part of a genetic card index ? |
| 4 | Do species have to be maintained so uniformly and tidily , so predictably , as if they were part of a genetic card index ? |
| 5 | Secondly , why did Sir Ralph just lie there and allow his throat to be cut so savagely that his head was almost hacked from his body ? |
| 6 | Never again in Anselm 's lifetime was the papal position to be stated so clearly and uncompromisingly . |
| 7 | One advantage is that the animals do n't have to be moved so much so lorries do n't clog up town centres , but there are disadvantages , market day is a chance for farmers to meet and keep track of prices . |
| 8 | My behaviour was surely prompted by flaws in my character — flaws that had allowed me to be connected so incestuously with Ladhar Bheinn , Riggindale and the rest in the first place . |
| 9 | This is the story of the Bristol Blenheim that was so painstakingly restored by Graham Warner and his team of enthusiasts , only to be destroyed so soon afterwards in a crash . |
| 10 | Eventually equipment purchases will have to be made so long as the demand for packaging is there . |
| 11 | This new approach , it seemed , was not to be made so publicly , not to be exposed to the expedient treason of little devious minds far removed from the battlefields on which honest men met , and contended , and killed one another without malice . |
| 12 | Trust Blanche to be thinking so far ahead . |
| 13 | Yet this very claim for monarchy implies a limitation : the irrational and reverential institution is to be tolerated so long as it serves its function . |
| 14 | He says we tried to persuade the Council to let us have it , but they said it had to be leased so now we have no where to go . |
| 15 | Are the forces of the mightiest military power on earth to be deployed so sparingly that they might as well be shrunk much more than most imagine ? |
| 16 | The surname , and the message she was to telephone — it 's very abnormal indeed for any personal message from the victim to be sent so soon . |
| 17 | What Firbas seems to be suggesting so far is that theme consists of context-dependent and rheme of context-independent items . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , if he 's so decent , ’ said Amiss , as he donned the pyjamas he had specially bought for the purposes of room-sharing , ‘ why does he allow us to be fed so badly ? ’ |
| 19 | Some of the European Court of Justice 's opinions can be quite ‘ woolly ’ and do leave themselves open to a wider interpretation , but I do not believe that the opinion was meant to be interpreted so widely as to provide for an auditor recognised in one member state to practise in a second member state without any requirement to obtain local authorisation . |
| 20 | It is of course a fairly familiar topic in the Bible , from Saul through to Judas — where there is enough material to offer some helpful teaching on the subject , and there is no need for it to be discussed so seldom . |
| 21 | LINTON WAS VERY surprised to be woken so early , and told that he had another journey to make , before breakfast . |
| 22 | All Yugoslav nationals in Eighth Army area were to be returned so long as this did not involve the " use of force " . |
| 23 | In the context of this section , ‘ action ’ is not to be construed so narrowly . |
| 24 | In particular , in the interpretation of provisions of the SGA 1979 relating to implied terms , Lord Diplock said ( at p501 ) that the Act " ought not to be construed so narrowly as to force on parties to contracts for the sale of goods promises and consequences different from what they must reasonably have intended " . |
| 25 | I also accept the Commission 's view that any joint service intended as more effective competition would not need to be introduced so far in advance of the tunnel 's opening . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ No-one expected Rovers to be doing so well and challenging for the League , ’ he admitted . |
| 27 | It would surely be a directorship within a couple of years , less even if luck went his way and certainly it seemed to be doing so just now . |
| 28 | Other countries seemed to be doing so much better . |
| 29 | Many would love to know , for instance , whether there any clocks in the White House which show the time in Moscow , or Warsaw , or Budapest , because people wonder why Mr Bush and Company appear to be falling so far behind in their reaction to the pace of life in those cities . |
| 30 | ‘ Not seemly , ’ she observed , her eyes dancing with merriment , for a widow and her parish priest to be laughing so loudly in church at the expense of his parishioners ! |