Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [verb] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strange that France 's new prime minister , whose first major statement before the National Assembly included vows to establish a European industrial policy and defend the Common Agricultural Policy , should be compared so readily with Margaret Thatcher . |
| 2 | The Bishop : ‘ I think it is a very balanced and very clear statement of how we should be living so far as our sexuality is concerned . ’ |
| 3 | Compacts also provide an invaluable forum for dialogue between teachers and employers to discuss and clarify ways in which the curriculum should be developed so as best to provide for the needs and interests of students in and beyond school . |
| 4 | Asked to explain why his chain should be doing so well when so many others are going to the wall , Mr Myers points to stringent management . |
| 5 | That the spotlight should be falling so directly on the schools market now was due , said Mr Davey , to the raised profile of education , the introduction of changes tot he national curriculum , but mainly to local management of schools . |
| 6 | Staffing standards therefore exceed the 4/73 baseline by a fifth and that should be welcomed so far as it is an attempt to provide favourably for a group in need . |
| 7 | Those who find it objectionable that an aesthetic problem should be taken so seriously may be assured that art represents the highest task and the true metaphysical activity of this life : witness the illustrious pioneer on my path , to whom I dedicate this essay . |
| 8 | Yet if she felt uncomfortable , Vitor must be feeling so much worse . |
| 9 | He wondered in passing what Mr Ryan might be doing so far north ; perhaps seeking to expand his chain of hat shops ? |
| 10 | ‘ It 'll be policed so heavily there will be no extra work for us . ’ |
| 11 | If weapons could be made so much more destructive , if used , the results would be cataclysmal , and could endanger the existence of the planet and all life on it . |
| 12 | He says that at first clients refused to believe it could be done so fast — some need to be convinced that it 's not just science fiction . |
| 13 | If this were true , then it is hard to see how impairments in face processing could be explained so economically in terms of the cognitive modules that functional models contain . |
| 14 | And I was even more curious as to why it was that Milton Friedman could so confidently assert in his writings a belief in the value of freedom , or Harry Johnson in the value of efficiency or Nicholas Kaldor in the value of equality , if it were true that facts and values could be distinguished so clearly . |
| 15 | The 100 came in the 28th over , and for those who wondered how England could be doing so well after Pakistan 's moderate success , the answer lay as much in England 's two disciplined straight bats as in the departed cloud cover . |
| 16 | If Elsie could be taken so easily , what hope was there for anyone ? |
| 17 | ‘ Hullo ! ’ , and this may be said so softly that it is almost inaudible and we only see the nostrils tremble . |
| 18 | Political prosecutions and political imprisonment may be deemed so far in the past as to be without modern day relevance . |
| 19 | A striking one came in 1760 when , at the marriage of the Princess of Brazil , the daughter of King Joseph I , the masterful Portuguese chief minister , the marques de Pombal , announced that though the papal nuncio and the imperial ambassador would take precedence over all other foreign envoys this would be governed so far as the rest of them were concerned simply by the dates on which they had presented their credentials . |
| 20 | would be completed so therefore became one of the market type of thing . |
| 21 | Also , she was acutely embarrassed at having to share her cousin 's bed , especially as they would be squeezed so closely together in the small space . |
| 22 | ( d ) Party not to take advantage of his own wrong A lease will be construed so far as possible so as not to permit a party to it to take advantage of his own wrong . |
| 23 | Places will be restricted so please book early . |
| 24 | ‘ But if European funding is distributed strictly on a regional basis it will be spread so thinly it will not have an impact on Merseyside . ‘ |
| 25 | There were many shrewd operators who backed him for last season 's Grand National and they will be doing so again . |
| 26 | Although the laws will doubtless be tightened , no cure for the current state of financial laxity will be found so long as Yugoslavia has a ‘ soft budget ’ approach to monetary policy , and persists in its attempts to combine self-management with the doctrine of ‘ social ownership ’ . |
| 27 | If Members of Parliament — elected by the people to represent the people — can be treated so disgustingly , we are only one step from dictatorship . |
| 28 | Is the Minister satisfied that those humanitarian needs have been met and are being met , or that they can be met so long as there is a risk to the Kurdish population from the evil dictator in Baghdad ? |
| 29 | This is the process of ‘ structuration ’ which can be observed so clearly among the British upper class , as we have argued through this section . |
| 30 | The usual way of expressing Boyle 's law , however , is Thus , when a gas is allowed to expand ( or is compressed ) at constant temperature from an initial volume of V1 to a final volume of V2 , the final pressure P2 can be calculated so long as the initial pressure Pl is known . |