Example sentences of "[noun pl] which [be] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Selectors should also avoid books which are so tightly bound that they have to be held forcibly open . |
| 2 | They were hardly affected by the deluge , even though their diet consists very largely of the very riverbed invertebrates which were so badly affected . |
| 3 | It 's right back to the Stamp Acts which were so bitterly and rightly resisted in the early part of the 19th century . ’ |
| 4 | The penalties , though , were pressures of time and deadlines , coupled with trepidation about handling the area of Effects which was so totally outside Design 's normal field of endeavour . |
| 5 | Any would be magnificent and there is time to knit several of them for ‘ specials ’ but I have n't said anything yet about small ‘ fun ’ presents and decorations which are so much a part of Christmas . |
| 6 | Along the new streets came new housing , the apartment buildings which are so closely identified with their originator that they are stylistically described simply as ‘ Haussmann ’ . |
| 7 | The trade unions have sustained the Labour party over all these years and Labour gave the trade unions the appalling powers which were so badly abused in the run-up to the 1979 election when , as we all know , the country was brought to its knees by a new strike almost every week . |
| 8 | The magazine served to reinforce my own feelings that we in the UK must fight to preserve lesbian and gay rights which were so hard won and which Mrs Thatcher seems determined to destroy . |
| 9 | The barriers she broke down about women in business are numerous because she moved as an equal among commercial interests which were so much then , as now , dominated by men . |
| 10 | There are few occupations which are so tightly professionalized as the academic profession ( Perkin 1973 , Neave 1979a ) ; a fact which helps to explain why on the whole it seems to work fairly harmoniously with the ‘ external ’ professions . |
| 11 | Visible expression of his anxiety could be found in his fingernails which were so savagely bitten that his sheets were often stained with blood . |
| 12 | People thronged in the several outdoor cafés , while others sat in groups on the paving stones , enjoying the music , cans of Coke at their feet , slices of smørrebrød in their hands , while neatly stacked against the railings of the old houses with their terracotta- and gamboge-painted façades were the ubiquitous bicycles which were so much a part of the Danish travel scene . |
| 13 | It should be possible to obtain a compromise which is effective in the legislation and which says , in effect , ’ There will be some crossings which are so rarely used that people are not inconvenienced by their closure . ’ |
| 14 | Of course some policemen and women , at the other extreme , welcomed the research as an opportunity to talk about issues which are so often taken for granted among colleagues and family that they are not topics of conversation . |
| 15 | Behind so many faces which are so seemingly self-assured there lies tragedy as yet untouched by Christ 's love and we , the church-as-a-force , have the costly privilege of being Christ 's channels . |
| 16 | It also has the basic shape of the big continental breeds which are so eagerly being imported by British farmers . |
| 17 | Do all discourse types have parts which are so easily named ? |
| 18 | What may be thought surprising is the absence of Celtic deities which are so well represented in stone sculpture and reliefs , especially in the west . |