Example sentences of "[conj] so [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A projected total of around 700,000 for the year is now expected , rather than the one million or so originally hoped for . |
| 2 | At the same time , the sentiments of pity which he who suffers punishment evokes in us can no longer be so easily nor so completely extinguished by the sentiments he has offended and which react against him ; for both are of the same nature ’ ( Durkheim , 1973 : 303 ) . |
| 3 | They point out that the recent North American Free Trade Agreement signed by the USA , Canada and Mexico contains more explicit environmental protection language than so far proposed for the MTO . |
| 4 | It was the kind of tragedy that so often called for sympathy — a momentary sympathy and thrill of horror , mixed with shamefaced satisfaction that it had happened to someone else -before one passed on to less disturbing news . |
| 5 | Afterwards Sharon 's stepfather appealed for a concerted campaign to end the spate of car thefts that so often ended in tragedy … |
| 6 | With regard to the latter , it should be noted that many Glasgow deaf church members around that time were very religious and so strongly disapproved of drinking that they formed their own temperance Society , the Glasgow Mutual Improvement Society . |
| 7 | Jennies were smashed across Lancashire in 1769 and so strongly resisted in the West Country that their penetration in Wiltshire and Gloucestershire was limited before the early 1790s . |
| 8 | Certainly no other nineteenth-century artist was so widely studied and so differently interpreted by the painters of the succeeding age . |
| 9 | Floy thought they probably ought to be afraid themselves , because the Tree Spirits were so inHuman and so wild and so clearly filled with strange woodland magic that once they had finished with Balor they might very well turn to the two Renascians . |
| 10 | This was important , because it showed that it was not a protein , and so clearly differed from lysozyme . |
| 11 | The idea of ‘ theory ’ has now become so pervasive , so much a part of the terms of current debate , and so visibly incorporated into institutions , that I shall not resist using it . |
| 12 | Such a religious patterning of small communities reveals a ‘ Christendom fixed at the state of development suitable to a simple agricultural and piscatorial society ’ , and so imperfectly suited to the more complicated organization of modern society . |
| 13 | In Jane Austen 's writing allusions of this kind are so succinct , and so well integrated with dramatized events , that they can easily pass the reader by . |
| 14 | This is not so difficult in the tropical rainforest where the rainfall is so heavy and so well spread throughout the year that the centres of many plants are permanently filled with water . |
| 15 | It was the usual Friday get-together , the alcohol-free lager and prawn salad session in the pub over the road , well within range of bleeps and so heavily attended by relays of medical and senior nursing staff . |
| 16 | Strange , is n't it , or perhaps not so strange , that the word is so much used by theoreticians and so little used by artists themselves ? |
| 17 | No indemnity will be given for loss of cash , bank currency and so on listed in Clause 11(c) — a substantial limitation of liability . |
| 18 | The rough timber , fencing , bamboo , reeds , thatch and so on used by farmers and primitive people may possibly amount to nearly as much again , but naturally , no records are available . |
| 19 | Neville Cardus wrote , ‘ Bradman did little that was more wonderful and so highly charged with his own force of character than his dazzling improvisation , his neck-to-nothing brilliance , in the face of the ruthless challenge of Jardine . ’ |
| 20 | The Sixth is for me one of the greatest symphonies — and so seldom played in the past ! |
| 21 | In the circumstances , hotel use was clearly a good second best , as it meant that the staterooms could be used for functions and so still seen by the public . |
| 22 | Not even American hostility to the British Empire as then constituted — and so resolutely defended by him — seriously disturbed his belief that Britain would find her main security in a transatlantic relationship . |
| 23 | The idea that the rest of creation is here for our benefit makes no sense biologically , but the idea is so widespread in society and so deeply ingrained in our approach to life , that it gives rise to an arrogant and destructive ‘ hubris ’ . |
| 24 | So suddenly fatherless , and so abruptly given to a husband , translated from the familiar company of her sisters at Brecon to this barbarous foreign court where she was the last and loneliest of the children , Isabella had looked round her forlornly for an anchorage to which she might ride in safety . |
| 25 | Colours are plain and strong which , despite the underlying sketchiness , makes the picture less ephemeral than it seems in black and white and so further removed from the heavenly evocation of ‘ The Zone of Love ’ . |
| 26 | If no safe and adequate access or no adequate unloading facilities there exist then transit shall be deemed to end at the expiry of one clear day after notice in writing ( or by telephone if so previously agreed in writing ) of the arrival of the Consignment at the Carrier 's premises has been sent to the consignee ; and |
| 27 | Her father was in the anteroom , waiting for her with a dour face and uneasy eyes , but so closely attended by page and chamberlain that barely a word beyond her submissive greeting and his mumbled acknowledgement , phrased as a blessing but uttered like a malediction , was able to pass between them . |
| 28 | The legends are screen-printed on , that 's one better than stick-on , but so badly done in some cases that it 's a toss up as to which is the worst method ! |
| 29 | Agreed , there was little he could do to ‘ sweeten ’ the corpse , but so much depended on how the body was ‘ dress 'd and trimm 'd ’ ; few people would be willing to patronize a funeral furnisher who took little care over the presentation of bodies . |
| 30 | But so much depended on the interpretation : if only Yorick had contented himself with unvarnished English prose . |