Example sentences of "[vb pp] so [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | We have not stressed so frequently the importance of liaison with our own colleagues , arguing ( with sometimes dubious validity ) that because it ‘ happens all the time ’ it does not need to be explicitly provided . |
2 | So , when Mr Goodman enquired about him , George was eager to come to Selhurst Park and most Palace historians agree that , had he done so even a month before the end of 1924–25 , the Palace would never have been relegated from Division Two . |
3 | Liturgical song does matter and has done so down the centuries since the early days of the Church . |
4 | I recall how disappointed I was in the morning to discover that the pebbles I had collected so lovingly the evening before were just a pile of dull stones now that they had dried and were away from the beach . |
5 | Surprised at being disturbed so roughly the nag jerked forward suddenly , the jolt snapped the rickety bodged-up slatting and the gramophone fell into the bottom of the cabinet . |
6 | In a country where education had expanded so rapidly the gap between young and old had accelerated so teaching the adults to read and write was becoming urgent . |
7 | But , to her relief , the voice that greeted her from the other side of the oak door , though indistinct , was that of the porter she had met so briefly the evening before . |
8 | She knew that even if Miss Clinton had n't had so long a start , her daddy would have little hope of catching her up in his old car . |
9 | Punch is certainly one of the great British institutions , and has become so much a way of life as to make it impossible to imagine a world without it . |
10 | These ways have become so much a part of the fabric of dance that they are used almost unknowingly by teachers and dancers . |
11 | By 1945 , German ‘ solutions ’ in the east had become so much a part of the German view of the world and ‘ German historic destiny ’ that the Russians and the Poles , who had played human safety-valve to German ambition throughout their long joint histories , saw dismemberment of German territory in the east as the only possible long-term solution . |
12 | These characters have become so much a part of our own childhood that we almost forget their origin . |
13 | It was as if the train journey itself , the old-fashioned intimate compartment in which they had found themselves , the freedom from interruptions and the tyranny of the telephone , the sense of time visibly flying , annihilated under the pounding wheels , not to be accounted for , had released both of them from a carefulness which had become so much a part of living that they were no longer aware of its weight until they let it slip from their shoulders . |
14 | It has become so much a part of them that they are often unaware of its existence . |
15 | We then start to read the familiar stories of ward closures and idle operating theatres which have become so much a part of the New Year celebrations and which the reforms were supposed to eliminate . |
16 | It had become so much a matter of routine that when she answered he came close to putting the phone down before he realized that all he 'd heard was , ‘ Hello . ’ |
17 | We have appreciated so much the support , encouragement , prayers and interest of many from the fellowship over the last year . |
18 | I used to use a similar item — called a Plonker Box at the time — years ago , on the sides of two or three of my computers , and never lost so much a byte of information . |
19 | ‘ You ca n't solve Ireland 's problems with a gun , ’ their father had told them and he had repeated so often the words of Archbishop Paul Cullen , one of Ireland 's great clerics , that they were still fresh in Father Brendan 's mind . |
20 | Clare had planned so often the details of her own wedding , so often pictured herself , radiant in a long , white dress with train , leaning on her father 's arm , advancing with a slow , fragile step down the aisle towards Mark , handsome and smiling in morning dress , while the organ pealed and the candles and flowers blazed , and the guests beamed and whispered in the crowded pews — that she felt a surge of pity for the girl who would have nothing to remember but this sordid little ceremony . |
21 | He had expressed so often the depth of his love and had made it clear to me that I had given meaning to his life . |
22 | Without this continuing endorsement Gloucester could not have maintained so wide a hegemony . |
23 | Without this continuing endorsement Gloucester could not have maintained so wide a hegemony . |
24 | Municipal workers were dousing the remnants of the street fires that had burned so brightly the night before . |
25 | Was it because he had no hope that he had lasted so short a time ? |