Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] in so [adv] " in BNC.

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1 The photographer had long since gone , but Kevin Seymour and I pored over the yacht 's considerable folio of charts while we discussed in detail the cruises that have been sketched in so lightly in the previous paragraphs .
2 Because my plants are packed in so tightly I spend a great deal of time trimming and tying .
3 Any deficiencies in this software may be forgiven in so far as it is distributed entirely free of charge ; no registration fee is requested by the author .
4 Secondly , agency discretion should be limited in so far as this is compatible with efficient operational decisions .
5 BCG does not say ‘ invest and grow ’ here , but implies that investment should be made in so far as it is needed to maintain a favourable position ; BCG seems to be ambivalent here about the need to invest to increase market share .
6 Words such as ’ normal ’ and ’ roles ’ are so weighed down with morally conservative pressures no responsible film-maker should let them be thrown in so lightly and without challenge .
7 In earlier times many learned lawyers seem to have believed that an Act of Parliament could be disregarded in so far as it was contrary to the law of God or the law of nature or natural justice , but since the supremacy of Parliament was finally demonstrated by the Revolution of 1688 any such idea has become obsolete .
8 In earlier times many learned lawyers seem to have believed that an Act of Parliament could be disregarded in so far as it was contrary to the law of God or the law of nature or natural justice , but since the supremacy of Parliament was finally demonstrated by the Revolution of 1688 any such idea has become obsolete .
9 The literary tradition is valued in so far as it offers a critical evaluation of this transformation and its consequences .
10 ( 1c ) Finally , and this was the central issue in Benjamin 's ‘ The Work of Art in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction ’ , aura is lost in so far as texts themselves are reproducible .
11 The door was smashed in so often that it had to be bricked up .
12 The letter of the law was observed in so far as none of the names of the actual raped women were mentioned .
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