Example sentences of "[adv] so [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The act may have been intended as a " final measure " by those who wished to steady things , but the flow of politics is rarely so easily contained by the comma of a constitutional concession . |
| 2 | Now Hungarian poetry may begin to change towards a poetry which is more autonomous , more self-subsistent with its own themes and materials , not necessarily so directly structured by our political situation . |
| 3 | If people were no longer so easily frightened into docility , new ways would have to be found to make them ductile . |
| 4 | I am merely asking for an extension of the logic which is already so well known to Marsham street . |
| 5 | The information is already so widely dispersed throughout the chemical literature that Pople and coworkers , realising the immense problems and complexities involved in organising a bibliography , decided to set up a database . |
| 6 | The same is true of Univel — already so tightly bound to Novell it uses the same premises and the self-same order-entry system . |
| 7 | More fundamentally , the Act of Settlement of 1701 , by asserting the right of Parliament to decide the succession to the throne , struck a decisive blow at the mystique of absolute hereditary monarchy still so widely accepted in many parts of the continent . |
| 8 | Were I to tell that story to my own son and tell him too of the subsequent shame and guilt that haunted me for months and is still so deeply etched in my memory , he would laugh and wonder what it was all about . |
| 9 | I would also like to acknowledge here the advice always so willingly given to us by members of our national institutions – the National Library , the University , the BBC , ‘ 121 ’ and Life and Work , Scottish Courts Administration , and even , this year , the Zoo . |
| 10 | Mrs Curzon , her ‘ lady-cleaner ’ , is in the great tradition of comic servants , always so well done in this author 's work . |
| 11 | In return for the continued friendship in times of want , and generous acts of hospitality always so readily extended towards the whites by these Indians , they now reap an abundant harvest of every species of villainy and insult . |
| 12 | No ship 's company was ever so well looked after , with plenty to eat and drink ; and a barrel of apples open for any man to take one . |
| 13 | These features are not usually so well marked in females . |
| 14 | It is quite evident that the majority feel that Medau Blue should be retained for use on special occasions thought you are not nearly so favourably disposed to wearing it in class — at least in its present form ! |
| 15 | Not that he would have felt nearly so hard done by had only his wallet suffered by it . |
| 16 | But they were also so far removed from conditions elsewhere in Italy that Banfield 's attention centred on this intra-national gap , and noting the many efforts which had been made by successive Italian governments to deal with ‘ the Southern Question ’ , he asked why these peripheral ‘ backward societies ’ were , as he put it , ‘ ultra-stable ’ , apparently trapped in dependency and poverty . |
| 17 | There has been considerable criticism recently of this approach , even though it seems to be now so firmly entrenched in many schools . |
| 18 | Ludens found himself watching Marcus , jealously , but with intense curiosity and interest and waiting as for some magisterial dispensation which would mysteriously order his own future , now so completely held in the balance . |
| 19 | It would seem , therefore , that there is considerable benefit to be obtained from the use of portfolio matrices , even if this view is not now so widely held in corporate-strategy literature . |
| 20 | It is important to realise the fact of ‘ dormitory ’ villages now so widely spread over England ; from any of the Essex towns one can see , as soon as works close down , a long string of bicycles returning to the villages outside … |
| 21 | ‘ Freedom from party control , as distinct from party commitment , is now so much taken for granted that it requires no affirmation . ’ |
| 22 | To Giles I 'm a ‘ Jeremiah ’ who should be capable of ‘ an act of faith ’ — act of lunacy , more like ; to Hans Haenlein and others I 've got incredibly deep pockets ; to Peter Davey , for whom I voted and who is now so far removed from ‘ the cultural gangsters ’ as to be a cultural kamikaze pilot , I need ‘ a heroic proposal ’ ; to Mervyn Miller I should n't ‘ surrender my birthright ’ — but I may have to sell it . |
| 23 | Our own children are now so far removed from danger , at least of the primal kind , and these Masai are so close to it , that you would expect them to be cowed and fearful . |
| 24 | Are we to concur with Stevenson 's conclusion ( 1981 ) that ‘ it is hard to see how we can escape in general in organization of service from the broad client groupings , now so deeply entrenched in social service provision and in the linkages which are required with other professions ’ ( p. 100 ) , and if so how are we to select client group(s) ? |
| 25 | ‘ Here we are to spend a merry right , are we not , Thomas ? ’ shouted Gwendolen in a high penetrating voice , to the intense interest of those not quite so well acquainted with Dickens 's letters . |
| 26 | Well , we seem to be a society that is very much orientated to crisis management rather than prevention , and perhaps we 're very good at recognizing our human needs and our children 's needs in terms of their nourishment , their physical and intellectual development , but perhaps not quite so well acquainted with their emotional needs to feel safe and secure with the adults around them being in control and able to handle their lives and the world 's situation in a mature and secure way . |
| 27 | Men are not quite so easily put off sex . |
| 28 | Though perhaps not quite so avidly sought after as its Pirelli or even Ilford counterpart , these nonetheless prove to be extremely popular with local folk who send them to their far-flung nearest and dearest . |
| 29 | BELVILLE : I do not apprehend myself to be quite so much obliged for those intentions . |
| 30 | Zoologists today might not agree that the division is quite so sharply defined as Wallace suggested . |