Example sentences of "[modal v] be [vb pp] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strange that France 's new prime minister , whose first major statement before the National Assembly included vows to establish a European industrial policy and defend the Common Agricultural Policy , should be compared so readily with Margaret Thatcher . |
| 2 | Compacts also provide an invaluable forum for dialogue between teachers and employers to discuss and clarify ways in which the curriculum should be developed so as best to provide for the needs and interests of students in and beyond school . |
| 3 | Staffing standards therefore exceed the 4/73 baseline by a fifth and that should be welcomed so far as it is an attempt to provide favourably for a group in need . |
| 4 | Those who find it objectionable that an aesthetic problem should be taken so seriously may be assured that art represents the highest task and the true metaphysical activity of this life : witness the illustrious pioneer on my path , to whom I dedicate this essay . |
| 5 | ‘ It 'll be policed so heavily there will be no extra work for us . ’ |
| 6 | If weapons could be made so much more destructive , if used , the results would be cataclysmal , and could endanger the existence of the planet and all life on it . |
| 7 | He says that at first clients refused to believe it could be done so fast — some need to be convinced that it 's not just science fiction . |
| 8 | If this were true , then it is hard to see how impairments in face processing could be explained so economically in terms of the cognitive modules that functional models contain . |
| 9 | And I was even more curious as to why it was that Milton Friedman could so confidently assert in his writings a belief in the value of freedom , or Harry Johnson in the value of efficiency or Nicholas Kaldor in the value of equality , if it were true that facts and values could be distinguished so clearly . |
| 10 | If Elsie could be taken so easily , what hope was there for anyone ? |
| 11 | ‘ Hullo ! ’ , and this may be said so softly that it is almost inaudible and we only see the nostrils tremble . |
| 12 | Political prosecutions and political imprisonment may be deemed so far in the past as to be without modern day relevance . |
| 13 | A striking one came in 1760 when , at the marriage of the Princess of Brazil , the daughter of King Joseph I , the masterful Portuguese chief minister , the marques de Pombal , announced that though the papal nuncio and the imperial ambassador would take precedence over all other foreign envoys this would be governed so far as the rest of them were concerned simply by the dates on which they had presented their credentials . |
| 14 | would be completed so therefore became one of the market type of thing . |
| 15 | Also , she was acutely embarrassed at having to share her cousin 's bed , especially as they would be squeezed so closely together in the small space . |
| 16 | ( d ) Party not to take advantage of his own wrong A lease will be construed so far as possible so as not to permit a party to it to take advantage of his own wrong . |
| 17 | Places will be restricted so please book early . |
| 18 | ‘ But if European funding is distributed strictly on a regional basis it will be spread so thinly it will not have an impact on Merseyside . ‘ |
| 19 | Although the laws will doubtless be tightened , no cure for the current state of financial laxity will be found so long as Yugoslavia has a ‘ soft budget ’ approach to monetary policy , and persists in its attempts to combine self-management with the doctrine of ‘ social ownership ’ . |
| 20 | If Members of Parliament — elected by the people to represent the people — can be treated so disgustingly , we are only one step from dictatorship . |
| 21 | Is the Minister satisfied that those humanitarian needs have been met and are being met , or that they can be met so long as there is a risk to the Kurdish population from the evil dictator in Baghdad ? |
| 22 | This is the process of ‘ structuration ’ which can be observed so clearly among the British upper class , as we have argued through this section . |
| 23 | The usual way of expressing Boyle 's law , however , is Thus , when a gas is allowed to expand ( or is compressed ) at constant temperature from an initial volume of V1 to a final volume of V2 , the final pressure P2 can be calculated so long as the initial pressure Pl is known . |
| 24 | Lucky , too , are children whose path through the complexities of the Old Testament can be made so comparatively straight by The Children 's Bible in 365 Stories , of which the third pack is now available for both Old Testament ( TS379 — two cassettes ; 2 hours 28 minutes ) and New Testament ( TS383 — two cassettes ; 2 hours 11 minutes ) . |
| 25 | I feel we need a poet to tell of the contribution made to our Christian Aid Week by those who stay at home and bake so that the baking stall can be kept so magnificently supplied every day . |
| 26 | It 's a total farce that Lambie can be hit so hard a second time . |
| 27 | And it 's something that can be avoided so easily . |
| 28 | But this will have to involve levelling up to the more advantaged rather than levelling down to the lesser , although future benefits can be reduced so long as diminution is applied equally to both sexes . |
| 29 | If output and methods of production can be changed so quickly how can the input of labour be varied to accommodate these changes ? |
| 30 | One of the attractions of windsurfing is that the equipment can be transported so easily . |