Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] so [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It has become so much a part of them that they are often unaware of its existence . |
| 3 | Without this continuing endorsement Gloucester could not have maintained so wide a hegemony . |
| 4 | Without this continuing endorsement Gloucester could not have maintained so wide a hegemony . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | Was it because he had no hope that he had lasted so short a time ? |
| 10 | These ways have become so much a part of the fabric of dance that they are used almost unknowingly by teachers and dancers . |
| 11 | These characters have become so much a part of our own childhood that we almost forget their origin . |
| 12 | 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 . |