Example sentences of "[noun sg] so [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the philosopher-agronomists advocated new crops and new methods they were met with the excuse so often given to Cavanilles on his tour of Aragon , ‘ We do as our fathers do . ’ |
| 2 | The necessary contact could partly be maintained by means of meetings and round-table discussions of the kind so successfully organised at Uig for the Arkleton Trust , but it would be desirable to give it some more concrete , institutional form as well . |
| 3 | She half held it out to Ellie as fair play so obviously fought with desire — and Ellie took the decision out of her hands by shouting , ‘ She 's found one ! ’ |
| 4 | But the enthusiasm so often expressed in favour of change produced little movement within the industry . |
| 5 | Like the little half-eaten ostrich so expertly reconstructed by Gould back in England , much of what Darwin had seen on the voyage had to be reassessed and re-evaluated after the event . |
| 6 | In particular , it has a lower jaw so loosely connected with the upper that it can be pushed forward like a long narrow spoon . |
| 7 | The result is a very friendly room without the formality so often associated with many dining areas . |
| 8 | But it is gon na be a lengthy er injury and that is a major blow so successfully converted from centre half to striker . |
| 9 | Arguably the necessary detachment was more likely to be found in people who had not had the kind of upbringing so thoroughly enjoyed by Mary Queen of Scots . |
| 10 | He had , quote , rarely seen a case so well managed as in this case , unquote . |
| 11 | His pursuit of the same approach in his cantatas arose perhaps from a firm conviction of what would succeed in a genre so closely allied to opera , perhaps from innate conservatism . |
| 12 | With the kind of support so far received from SOED and SRC , the indications are that the learning and teaching of modern languages will become increasingly effective — especially for those children in need of support . |
| 13 | It was time to jettison a faith so badly shaken by events , and be a convert to outdated gradualism after all . |
| 14 | But consider : ( 1 ) It is possible to follow periodic orbits numerically with changing parameter ( even if they are unstable ) ; every orbit so far examined in the Lorenz equations can be traced , at least in one direction , to a homoclinic bifurcation . |
| 15 | It was Metroland , the inter-war middle-class paradise so lovingly celebrated by Sir John Betjeman . |
| 16 | Perhaps the undramatic cosiness so often depicted on the screen is only a symptom of an unproductive cosiness in British film production . |
| 17 | Few travel or motoring correspondents would wish to be overly critical of the holiday or car so lavishly provided by their respective sponsors . |
| 18 | We have restored the hospital building programme so savagely cut by Labour at the end of their last term of office . |
| 19 | Is it yet another symptom of the general decay of Western civilisation so well exemplified by widespread social disorder , the decline of moral standards and the onslaught of printed toilet tissue ? |
| 20 | Such rigidities can be observed in organizations and institutions as well as whole cultures : the small , traditional engineering or textile firm which fails to adapt to the market and goes out of business ; the political party caught between renewal and betrayal ; the institution so deeply set in its ways that it is hardly aware of them . |
| 21 | If you wish to recreate the geyser effect so spectacularly displayed in Geneva , but of course on a much smaller scale , then you can buy special foaming geyser jets . |
| 22 | Richard Morton is generally credited with the first medical description in 1689 and he poignantly captured the key clinical feature : ‘ I do not remember that I did ever in all my practice see one , that was conversant with the living so much wasted with the greatest degree of a consumption ( like a skeleton only clad with skin ) ’ . |
| 23 | She plays double bass , and I reckon Lou is quite stirred by the sight of the hefty instrument so sturdily placed between , let's face it , equally hefty legs . |
| 24 | Why the foundation of the London Veterinary College so notoriously lagged behind the foundation of the French , and then of other continental veterinary schools , remains unexplained . |
| 25 | It should therefore be of little surprise if the expenditure on inner city regeneration turns out to be a risible fraction of that necessary to have a major impact on the level of urban immiseration as long as it can still produce the sort of photogenic spectacle so clearly embodied in Birmingham 's super-prix or Phoenix 's grand prix , Boston and New York 's marathons or Liverpool 's Tall Ships Race . |
| 26 | Ironically , Leeds failed partly because they adopted a tactic so often attributed to Scottish football , the aimless high ball . |
| 27 | This raises the question so far evaded in this chapter : What is policy ? |
| 28 | The Soviet leader has had a more modest , though not dissimilar effect on East Germany , where his presence last weekend became a focus for calls for change of the type so steadfastly refused by his hosts . |
| 29 | Even in this era of psycho-history , it is impossible to think of any other historical character of note whose public persona has been so submerged , and private morality so relentlessly pursued with such ruthless subjectivity on the part of those who have written about her . |
| 30 | Although he was certainly closely ‘ in ’ with the artistic and literary circle so often described in John Harden 's diaries he was not entirely accepted in the more intimate social sense . |