Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [verb] so [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of those authorities also have land available which they are able to use with housing associations to provide new build , but they would not have been able to do so had not this Government been in power . |
| 2 | ‘ But why should you be willing to let so gross an injury pass ? |
| 3 | It also serves to reinforce the idea that if accounting is to reflect economic reality it is unlikely to be able to do so using only one cost/value measure . |
| 4 | In theory , the scheme is meant to help pupils who would otherwise be unable to do so to benefit from education at an independent school , but Janet Finch argues that past experience of the direct grant system ‘ would lead one to suppose that many beneficiaries of such a scheme will be middle-class children ’ .24 In 1986–7 about 24,500 pupils attended independent schools under the Assisted Places Scheme in England alone , and this transferred £43 million of taxpayers ' money to independent schools . |
| 5 | As an apparently domestic residence it seems strange that it replaced a timber structure which has been interpreted as a temple , although time elapsed between the latter 's destruction and the building of the house ; it is unusual to find so deliberate a secularization of a religious site in the Roman world . |
| 6 | The fact that John had handed over the reins of power to Miss Doris and Mr Smith seemed a great honour but his stipulation that they should keep and maintain the name and reputation of the business so long as it was possible to do so proved a massive task for them in later years . |
| 7 | Everyone on board who was free to do so had attended the funeral , Ruth standing with the Carsons on the upper deck . |
| 8 | That he was prepared to do so to retain his position was , in itself , a sign of changing times . |