Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [be] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the past to which you are so resolutely attached — I suppose you regard it as having been ideal ? |
| 2 | What if that forceful identity for which she is so severely castigated somewhere also operates as a kind of pull ? |
| 3 | I did , however , manage to express my views as a practitioner , as one who actually nurses in the system of which she is so poorly informed , and I suggest that if more of us did the same , then perhaps our collective expertise may have a greater influence . |
| 4 | All attempts at forced separation were met with fierce growling and threatening behaviour from the dog and a marked reluctance on the part of the stone to be ejected from the basket in which she was so blissfully happy ! |
| 5 | To confront the anger of God in the way the ancient Israelites dared to do , to face it as directed against ourselves and the society of which we are so much a part , is to escape the romantic pretence , the unrelieved jollity , or the easy , unthinking speech of so much that passes for Christian belief and worship . |
| 6 | It 's a troublesome beast , this poetic ambiguity which we are so often taught to value more highly than the explicit . |
| 7 | Special old age concessions such as travel permits , cheap beef and butter , of which we are so often proud , emphasize that pensioners are to be treated differently . |
| 8 | Increased understanding of the burdens which they carry should lead us to greater awareness of the strain under which they are so often put . |
| 9 | Despite the widespread diffusion , adaptation , and imitation of the Calvinist psalm-tunes throughout northern Europe , their ultimate contribution to Western music generally was less than that of the Lutheran hymns to which they were so closely related . |
| 10 | It is to discover something more of the pain of God , the hurt to which he is so constantly exposed , even now , after Sinai , and after Golgotha . |
| 11 | One of the things that makes his account so useful — so much more than the anecdotal triviality of which he is so carelessly accused — is his ability to compare and contrast this informal repair work with the formal structures of explicit legal process . |
| 12 | He was a born teacher and soon found that he gained great fulfillment by teaching and training others for the profession for which he was so ably fitted . |
| 13 | Keynes 's struggle to break free from the classical economics with which he was so profoundly imbued , and his recurrent comparisons with what he regarded as the most powerful , though flawed , alternative approach to macroeconomic matters , were almost totally ignored . |
| 14 | ( There is no doubt , however , that his fame was useful to the firm with which he was so closely associated . ) |
| 15 | The combination of boogification with romantic lyricism in ‘ Heartbreak Hotel ’ — one element deriving from established Tin Pan Alley technique , the other from the black American subculture — produces a style already , at this early stage in Elvis 's career , teetering on the edge of that melodrama into which he was so often to fall . |
| 16 | The summer sun , to which he was so often exposed during his many sporting pursuits , had accentuated his freckles . |
| 17 | Letts , of course , has moved in the other direction , into book publishing ( Blackwells ' Art & Poster Shop has seen a 500% increase in turnover of sales of their books this year , John Harvey-Jones please note ) , but it is well worth stocking Letts ' unbeatable range of the more traditional diaries for which it is so rightly famous . |
| 18 | This section looks back further into Christian tradition and examines the concept of faith , particularly in relation to the word which it is so often contrasted to , ‘ reason ’ , in order to identify more clearly the stance adopted by the ‘ no meaning ’ theist . |
| 19 | We ought to support family life as one of the foundation stones of a good society and in consequence fight determinedly against the unemployment , poverty and lack of opportunity by which it is so often menaced . |
| 20 | Reaction even against the political system with which it was so closely integrated was muted . |
| 21 | Yet the capabilities of mature mammals and birds to fend for themselves , to care for their offspring , and to interact with their own and other species , far surpass those of the 12-month-old baby or the anencephalic with whom they are so frequently bracketed . |
| 22 | Stateless societies are so constituted that the kaleidoscopic succession of concrete social situations provides the stimulus that motivates each individual to act for his own interest or for that of close kin and neighbours with whom he is so totally involved , in a manner which maintains the fabric of society … the lack of specialized roles and the resulting multiplex quality of social networks mean that neither economic nor political ends can be exclusively pursued by anyone to the detriment of society , because the ends are intertwined with each other and further channelled by ritual and controlled by the beliefs which ritual expresses . |
| 23 | He found that he could pay a compliment to Charles Raven , from whom he was so sadly sundered in spirit , for his book on Religion and Science . |
| 24 | Formerly esquire of the body to Henry the Sixth , Vaughan had become treasurer of the chamber to Edward the Fourth , by whom he was so highly regarded that in 1471 he had been appointed chamberlain to the then one-year-old Prince Edward . |
| 25 | in that sense because it you 're so far in inland . |
| 26 | And I know what I am , but what I am so closely resembles somebody else that at times it even scares me ! |
| 27 | The live organic yoghourt can be the basis of some home made — the bacteria/enzymes or whatever they are so much stronger in the good quality organic live yoghourts than some of the supermarket type ) . |
| 28 | There was every possible opportunity and we discussed it ; he was keen but not importunate , which naturally made me love him more and be more inclined to give him what he was so sweetly not insisting on , but something held me back . |