Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [vb pp] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Things are not altered so quickly or coarsely by common people as they are by fashionable people … |
| 2 | The French , Italian and Austrian Alps have their spectacles , but they are not presented so conveniently for the the idle downhill skier ( or even non-skier ) as the great set-pieces of the Swiss . |
| 3 | The burrows of these robber wasps are usually concealed so skilfully that few other animals are able to find them and rob them . |
| 4 | Prisoners are often transferred so far away from their homes that the social problems become immense and the difficulties are exacerbated rather than diminished . |
| 5 | Seeing that the independents would be slowly strangled so long as they relied exclusively upon the British circuits , he sought to establish connections to Hollywood . |
| 6 | He 'll have to know who 's coming but as I say , I 'm not bothered so long as Arthur and Angela 's there and and dad . |
| 7 | Coordination and balance will be severely affected so much so that we hold ourselves rigid in order to avoid falling over . |
| 8 | People often assume that personality and behaviour are one and the same and this leads to the erroneous assumption that because the fundamentals of your personality are relatively fixed so also is your behaviour . |
| 9 | In practice choices are often limited and freedoms have been tightly controlled so far . |
| 10 | Initially , Wendy received six-monthly inseminations , but she felt ill-at-ease : ‘ They were always done so impersonally and I was going through such an emotional , personal experience . ’ |
| 11 | If so , the Deverils were still proscribed so why had she been allowed to enter England and , undoubtedly , to travel to Godstowe , a sensitive place where a former royal mistress had been incarcerated . |
| 12 | The dominant response may at present be a favourable one , but this is only maintained so long as it implicitly accepted that functions are being successfully and rationally fulfilled . |
| 13 | True , at death our essence is finally overcome so far as its actualisation in space and time goes , but as long as we live we can go on realizing it in as full a form as circumstances allow . |
| 14 | In general , digestion slows down with age , and food is not absorbed so efficiently . |
| 15 | That is , we continue to work with God , or maybe even without him , but the thought of self-sufficiency is not expressed so boldly : Finally , we reach a stage at which , whatever our external life is saying , our internal attitude is one of complete autonomy and arrogant self-sufficiency , though this may not be evident , especially to ourselves . |
| 16 | The sense of Britishness has been supplanted or supplemented by Scottish and Welsh nationalism ; the sense of identity with the nations of the United Kingdom is not felt so strongly by minorities in the population — Moslems from Pakistan and India , Afro-Caribbeans , Indians , Bangladeshis and others who experience discrimination in the British community while also experiencing a sense of belonging to their own religious and ethnic communities . |
| 17 | However , unlike with the front kick , the fact you have leaned back means that your centre of gravity is not thrust so far forwards , and you can at least land comparatively lightly . |
| 18 | Note : Bed linen is not provided so please bring a sleeping bag and towels with you . |
| 19 | Whether this situation also holds true for other RA-regulated genes is not known so far ( for a review see 22 ) . |
| 20 | I can see why he 's not scored so often this year and why we 're now being linked with Ferdinand . |
| 21 | What is less often conceded or , if conceded , considered — Bersani being a significant exception — is that if gender is socially constituted so too is desire . |
| 22 | It is now entrenched so deeply there is little chance of it being overturned . |
| 23 | Indeed , our understanding of the technique that is now used so widely and with such serious consequences seems to have made disquietingly little progress since the 1770s , when Franz Anton Mesmer first took Paris by storm with his new , bizarre technique . |
| 24 | Like many others , she blames the lack of instruction in the colleges : ‘ Because abstract , semi-abstract painting is the norm , the teaching of realistic , effective painting , whatever you 'd like to call it , is n't taken so seriously . |
| 25 | The nature of a painter 's technique is never scrutinised so closely as when a work has just been cleaned , and at the heart of the exhibition will be eight of the fourteen Titians in the Louvre 's own collection that have just been freed of their treacly , dark varnishes and retouchings . |
| 26 | This distinction between witchcraft and sorcery ( which , incidentally , is seldom drawn so sharply by other peoples ) is neatly paralleled in the contrasting effects which Zande assume each to possess . |
| 27 | Now they claim they 're regularly being subjected to violence by inmates — twenty officers have been seriously assaulted so far this year . |
| 28 | They had been very mixed so far . |
| 29 | A dispute in Hungary at about the same time was not resolved so amicably , at least in part because Hungary occupied a far more important strategic position in terms of Soviet security than did Yugoslavia . |
| 30 | At a recent rugby jamboree in Kimberley the unification of these two bodies was formally completed so now it is up to the various officials and administrators to make the new South African Rugby Football Union really work . |