Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] so [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The most blameworthy acts are so often absolved by success that the boundary between what is permitted and what is prohibited , what is just and what is unjust , has nothing fixed about it , but seems susceptible to almost arbitrary change by individuals . ’ |
| 2 | There is no better way of establishing the sea than by being lunged and it is a great pity that beginner riders are so frequently taught by the most junior members of staff . |
| 3 | The belief that different treatment methods are needed for and tried on different populations of sufferers does not stand up to critical examination : the stories of those in recovery from addictive disease through the Anonymous Fellowships are so immensely varied that it is quite clear that this population has not been selected in any way . |
| 4 | Their word-recognition skills are so finely developed that they may take insufficient notice of orthography while reading , and so develop poor memories of how words are constructed when it comes to spelling them . |
| 5 | For , in reality , the research and teaching activities are so closely interwoven that they are inseparable . |
| 6 | It would seem to be patently unfair to dismiss a driver with a perfect record prior to a momentary lapse which results in a court imposing a penalty , simply because the works ' rules are so rigidly drawn that the employer is deprived of exercising a discretion . |
| 7 | Her ears are so finely tuned to this that she can pick out a prospective mate 's voice from a cacophony of croaks . |
| 8 | The first is that despite what was said earlier about the unique nature of art-objects , the stance of being suggests why the arts are so frequently associated with the human , and are therefore regarded as central to the ‘ humanities ’ . |
| 9 | Where tax-free reserves are so closely linked to capital investment , the small firm finds a greater proportion of profits subject to tax and may therefore be subject to a higher marginal rate of taxation . |
| 10 | In certain families of butterflies the fore legs are so much reduced that there are only two pairs of functional legs . |
| 11 | The problem is that our managerial hierarchies are so badly designed as to defeat the best efforts even of psychologically insightful individuals . |
| 12 | Since styles are so attractively brief there is an understandable temptation to think of all behaviour at a styles-level of description . |
| 13 | The words were so softly spoken that she wondered at first if she 'd heard correctly . |
| 14 | Her lower legs were so badly crushed there was no hope of saving them . |
| 15 | Settlement had also occurred elsewhere , and the Foreign and Colonial Offices were so badly weakened by alterations and were so inconvenient that an entirely new building would be the only way to provide suitable accommodation . |
| 16 | He told me that , at that time , his anxieties were so deeply felt that he sought the advice of his doctor . |
| 17 | The sole recipient of those monies was the Society , though the funds were so ingeniously routed , through companies and agents who were unaware of their place in the system , that nobody who serviced the Society in any capacity whatsoever knew of its existence . |
| 18 | About 50 per cent of the animals were so sev-erely maimed that they had to be put down . |
| 19 | Most of the copper roofs had disappeared off public buildings , to make driving bands for the shells being so voraciously expended at Verdun , and the park railings were about to follow the roofs . |
| 20 | In Davos and St Moritz , the areas are so widely spread and rewarding individually that the idea of linking them scarcely arises . |
| 21 | Although we only hear fragments of the storm , the music has such presence , and its elements are so cunningly chosen , that we can quite well imagine that the rondo form of the interlude is itself continuing outside in the darkness . |
| 22 | The writer uses many of the cons of the genre ; red and blue plumed knights , pale maidens in dark castles , full moons in star-washed skies , but her descriptions are so finely wrought that they transcend the fantasy formula . |
| 23 | HISTORICAL monuments are so badly signposted that many visitors are unaware of their existence , the Scottish Tourist Board 's chief executive , Tom Band , told a tourism conference yesterday , writes Alison Daniels . |
| 24 | Here we have , of course , the explanation why these lines are so enormously moving . |
| 25 | The description of feelings and emotions are so well portrayed that the reader is able to feel with the character at every twist and turn of their lives . |
| 26 | Howard would surely have approved of all that , but as so often in penal reform , the very advance of which the reformers were so proud led to an ironic and unforeseen development . |
| 27 | It is not clear why the motives of the White Paper of 1943 , the intentions of the inspectorate and the hopes of educational reformers were so little heeded in the specific detail of selection . |
| 28 | Not all religious sites were so openly associated with water , however , despite its popularity in Celtic theology , but caution is necessary when trying to identify religion as the primary function for a settlement 's foundation and continued existence , as so many small towns possessed at least one temple . |
| 29 | The other barges were so deeply encrusted with marine life that it was difficult to strike wood . |
| 30 | There was a certain amount of talking , since congressional votes on the contras were so finely balanced ; but in private this was war . |