Example sentences of "[noun sg] which [be] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus a car which is so seriously damaged that its chassis is distorted could no longer be accurately described as new , even after being repaired , whereas if only the engine were damaged the car could be restored to newness by a new engine being installed . |
| 2 | Rather we must deliberately foster the grasshopper mind which is so scathingly crushed by the schoolmasters . |
| 3 | With regard to particular crimes , the survey perhaps offered some reassurance to those accustomed to the image of a massive upsurge in crime which is so regularly portrayed by the media . |
| 4 | Similarly , he retained a strong christocentrism , but tried to find a ‘ non-religious ’ interpretation of Jesus as ‘ the man for others ’ in whom God is indeed present , but present in weakness , suffering and hiddenness rather than in the authoritative majesty which was so markedly appealed to in Barth 's earlier writing . |
| 5 | Why it was thought appropriate to leave the important matter of imposing tax on building societies to secondary rather than primary legislation in this way remains a mystery ; but , whatever the explanation , the experiment was a total disaster and resulted in the Revenue producing some regulations in respect of a particular period of assessment which were so hopelessly flawed that the House of Lords found itself compelled to declare them void as being ultra vires . |
| 6 | So , after lunching at one of the excellent local inns , we contented ourselves with making a wide sweep South to the River Dove and back up to the Derwent , — stopping at Castleton which , with its show caves and fluorspar ( Blue John stone ) mines should n't be missed and at Eyam which was so badly ravaged by the pestilence of 1665/6 that it is still known as The Plague Village . |
| 7 | So , after lunching at one of the excellent local inns , we contented ourselves with making a wide sweep South to the River Dove and back up to the Derwent , — stopping at Castleton which , with its show caves and fluorspar ( Blue John stone ) mines should n't be missed and at Eyam which was so badly ravaged by the pestilence of 1665/6 that it is still known as The Plague Village . |
| 8 | The bonus with St Francis is in helping pupils to appreciate a depth in what it means to be a Christian which is so easily today seen at a superficial externalist level . |
| 9 | Indeed , that is precisely the point which was so clearly recognised by President Yeltsin . |
| 10 | It is good to see Moorcock 's work finally being given the attention which is so often lavished on lesser writers . |
| 11 | It is another pointer to that ambiguity which is so much a characteristic of his life and work , in which the essential orderliness and formal morality of his upbringing clash with his more libertarian — and sometimes libertine — impulses and imagination . |
| 12 | ‘ By signalling the end for the trade union block vote he has brought an air of realism which was so markedly absent under Neil Kinnock . ’ |
| 13 | He waited for Siban to find a way to phrase the request which was so obviously his intent , but instead Siban rose to his feet and stalked away towards the door , his departure so abrupt that Alexei was taken by surprise . |
| 14 | It is not without considerable irony that he should choose an example which is so uniquely interventionist as to render his previous assertion almost meaningless . |
| 15 | Timber which is so severely honeycombed that it is virtually useless — termed ‘ frass ’ — is likely to coincide with the sapwood content of structural timber . |
| 16 | Madam Deputy Speaker I did n't mention those at all in the speech I gave last week which was so warmly received by the house . |
| 17 | We can usefully begin our discussion here by taking up a very important and characteristic religious theme : the ambiguity or ambivalence which is so often such a striking feature of mystical power . |
| 18 | Similarly we may note that the feeling which was so openly exhibited against the French nobility after the battle of Poitiers reflected something of a growing opinion that , in spite of tradition , the nobility had no absolute right to assume positions of responsibility within the army . |
| 19 | In the meantime I would ask people to avoid unsubstantiated speculation and unhelpful comment which is so singularly unproductive in these circumstances . |
| 20 | Breeze , fairly dancing with excitement , held open the wrought-iron gate which was so exactly in keeping with the rest of the cottage . |
| 21 | A media theory for the 21 st century needs to consider these changed circumstances and , more fundamentally , whether we have come , or been led , to expect too much from means of mass communication which are so obviously and primarily economic enterprises with too few available resources to tackle the range of issues that occupy today 's citizen . |
| 22 | This had the advantage of assuring leadership by a strong adult rather than the possibility of a child inheriting — a hazard which was so frequently to affect the later Stuart dynasty . |
| 23 | It is sometimes darkly hinted that there is little point of applying the rational expectations hypothesis to a model which is so irredeemably based on the non-optimizing ( i.e. irrational ) assumptions of sticky money wages and money illusion . |
| 24 | Turner 's Slave Ship which was so highly praised by Ruskin , shows faithfully the horror and evil of that traffic and it is the emotion , not the technique that has given the painting its immortality . |
| 25 | Jakobson uses a culinary example in his discussion of the question which nicely complements the vessel-liquid image which is so often implied in the form-content distinction . |
| 26 | This down-to-earth good sense has not been sufficiently stressed in the past ; there is a normality , a sanity , a state of psychological health which is so often missing in the more obviously ‘ Romantic ’ of Wordsworth 's contemporaries . |
| 27 | Perhaps the controversy which is so thoroughly evaded in this exhibition needs to be reintroduced . |
| 28 | How can he possibly justify cutting training which is so desperately needed by a work force without jobs such as that in Knowsley , South ? |
| 29 | It is perfectly clear to me and fellow Councillors that a report which is so badly and which so badly uses statistics , can not be received because it is not of sufficient quality for this County Council and support the District Council to use it . |
| 30 | Any who dare to question this are quickly dealt with by being accused of faithlessness , invoking that frighteningly powerful guilt feeling instilled into the human mind whilst the individual is still very young , and it is just this abuse of childhood which is so surely the primary cause of failure to reduce the constant renewal of the horrors of war . |