Example sentences of "[vb base] so [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Controlling activities arc so closely linked to Planning and Decision-making activities that it would be advisable to study the next two chapters in conjunction with Chapters 16 and 17 .
2 One does n't want to wallow in the nostalgia trap so temptingly set by TV Heaven and its bebow-tied host Frank Muir ( though they show Honor Blackman in her Avengers leather kit , it 's hard to resist ) , but Old Boy Network is a long way from The Likely Lads .
3 Such adaptations grab our attention because the characters seem so well designed for the job they perform .
4 If we wish to know why hysteria is now so rare and why modern forms of psychopathology in general seem so often removed from their classical , nineteenth and early twentieth-century manifestations , we may now be in a position to give at least part of the answer .
5 However , many inexperienced pilots get so thoroughly engrossed in the thermalling or what is going on elsewhere that they are temporarily ‘ switched off ’ to how they are flying .
6 This month , you need to double check the reason why you feel so strongly opposed to a certain possibility .
7 Many elderly people become so deeply attached to their animals , however , that when they lose them they go through a very real and depressing bereavement experience ; so every effort should be made to help them to keep their animals properly fed , groomed and exercised when they begin to find this difficult to cope with themselves .
8 The inter-relationship of body and dress so self-consciously referred to in many of Kahlo 's most polemical works ( Fig. 12 ) has been strangely inverted by her current popularity .
9 With the devoted assistance of several technical wizards we converted my A-frame into an alchemist 's chamber of optical and electronic apparatus with which to visualize the unseen dimensions of sound and form so often described by metaphysicians .
10 My comments are not meant to seek to prescribe to others how they should go about things , nor are they written in the belief that the ways that I have so painfully worked upon are necessarily the best , or the only ways of doing things .
11 All she had wanted to do was make sure her followers knew she was back on the road to recovery and fit enough to joke " the Scottish people have so amazingly walked into my heart the impact has been far more powerful than I could have imagined " .
12 Ultimately , much of the debate comes down to the question of choice , the word that the Tories have so successfully colonised in rhetoric and so often failed to deliver in reality .
13 John Paris , in his biography of Davy published in 1825 , wrote : ‘ I have been able to present to the world a complete history of those proceedings which have so happily led to discovery of which it is not too much to say that it is at once the pride of science , the triumph of humanity and the glory of the age in which we live . ’
14 [ reading ] " When you read this letter you will be far on your way to your father and mother where you have so long desired to be , and I hope I shall forbear thinking of you with the least shadow of that fondness my foolish heart had entertained for you .
15 Scotland have so far lost in Switzerland and drawn at home to Portugal , failing on both occasions to reproduce the fluency that lit up Norrkoping in June .
16 Jupiter is about 11 times the diameter and about 1300 times the volume of the Earth , and in its size and in many other respects is a very different world from the terrestrial planets that you have so far met in this book .
17 In that case the solutions that I have so far given to the first equation would no longer be acceptable , but one could take x=1 , y=2 , and z=1 .
18 To some extent , all that we have so far said about multimedia development is really a description of multimedia databases .
19 The way the long folds follow the lean of the body instead of falling vertically is a primitive touch ( offset by the charming observation of the skirt-edge caught on the lifted heel ) , but the treatment of the face seems to fix the work later than any we have so far looked at .
20 We have so far looked at divisions of income and wealth .
21 It is important to note that none of the clauses we have so far dealt with have introduced a PAR construct ( SEQ , on the other hand , was introduced by ALT and CAR ) .
22 Erm and so far well I 'm certainly willing to confess that I took these away full of good intentions and have have so far carried around this torn up copy of the Greater London Green Party for months .
23 THE INHABITANTS of the planet Myrin have much to endure from Earthmen , inevitably , perhaps , since they represent the only intelligent life we have so far found in the galaxy .
24 Among the publishers that have so far acted as hosts are OUP and Pinter Publishers .
25 You have so far succeeded in preventing the closure of a small area of self-sealing partition .
26 Attempts by Temple to have the plan and purchases of SeaCo shares by the group 's subsidiaries ruled illegal have so far failed in the Bermudan courts .
27 Most experiments of this type have so far concentrated on investigating timber buildings with posts set in postholes , because these are usually the most difficult structures to interpret during excavation .
28 All attempts to engineer a dialogue between the two have so far come to nothing , whether through UN Security Council resolutions in a sequel to the bilateral Camp David peace between Israel and Egypt in 1978 , or through attempts to associate the PLO leadership with either Jordan or Egypt in the direct talks between them and the Israelis from which the latter have always recoiled .
29 Both international links have so far come to nothing — the SFE link having been effectively abandoned for the time being , and the CBoT accord never having been implemented .
30 We have so far talked about positive and negative charges , about point charges , and distributed charge .
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