Example sentences of "be so [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Written by John Martin Robinson , it traces the progress of the Temple family , whose political ideas and ambitions are so clearly seen in the gardens and buildings they created at Stowe . |
| 2 | The thought that MPs are so easily bribed with a couple of gin and tonics and a lamb cutlet is ridiculous . ’ |
| 3 | How come you are so easily spared from the company which employs you ? ’ |
| 4 | The Wandjina images and the cult of the Rainbow Serpent are so closely aligned to Indian serpent worship that the probability of cultural interchange in some remote age is no longer a vague theory . |
| 5 | Along the new streets came new housing , the apartment buildings which are so closely identified with their originator that they are stylistically described simply as ‘ Haussmann ’ . |
| 6 | Perhaps part of the fascination of movies has always been that they trigger off so many memories but what is interesting about so much film-making in the 1920s is that movies are so closely associated with that age of the masses that had come at the end of one century and the beginning of another . |
| 7 | Music , tears , song , breath are so closely linked for me — like a great life giving force . |
| 8 | Where tax-free reserves are so closely linked to capital investment , the small firm finds a greater proportion of profits subject to tax and may therefore be subject to a higher marginal rate of taxation . |
| 9 | The dicta in Reg. v. Director of Serious Fraud Office , Ex parte Saunders are not , of course , binding on us , but they are so closely linked to the ratio that we think it would be wrong to depart from them . |
| 10 | The time has come to use test kits more often , and with greater care — and to experiment with Siporax which , we are so regularly told by the distributor , can deal with nitrites and nitrates . |
| 11 | A lot of it is rather cool and conceptual but , because subject matter and materials are so firmly rooted in direct experience , they can not fail to communicate with confidence and clarity to all who see the show . |
| 12 | The Germans , who are so widely attacked for not coughing up more for a war on which they were n't consulted , are the only Western country making real sacrifices , not only to integrate East Germany , which is costing them 150 billion Dm this year , but also to help Poland , Czechoslovakia , Hungary and even the Soviet Union . |
| 13 | There is no better way of establishing the sea than by being lunged and it is a great pity that beginner riders are so frequently taught by the most junior members of staff . |
| 14 | As matters of race and social work are so frequently dealt with through rhetoric , a valuable opportunity to gain some ‘ facts ’ in this area was missed . |
| 15 | The horns , though they properly belong to the brass group , are so frequently used as part of the woodwind ensemble that we feel bound to include them in our consideration of this orchestral group . |
| 16 | Why is it that societies are so frequently marked by geographical disparities ? |
| 17 | The first is that despite what was said earlier about the unique nature of art-objects , the stance of being suggests why the arts are so frequently associated with the human , and are therefore regarded as central to the ‘ humanities ’ . |
| 18 | In literature , music , the cinema ( at least in Europe ) and painting , works of art are more cerebral than ever , more difficult , more inaccessible , less penetrable , not just by the masses whose interests are so patronisingly espoused by politicians but also ( even though they dare not always admit it ) by those who really want to be involved . |
| 19 | ‘ In many instances , ’ writes Godwin , ‘ these hotbeds fever and vice are so effectually hidden by goodly houses that the inhabitants of the latter are scarcely aware of the poverty and disease which exist within a stone 's throw from their own doors . ’ |
| 20 | They can not be a priority if applications are so heavily burdened with bureaucratic requirements . |
| 21 | Many new towns on the fringe of the affluent south-east are so heavily populated by young married couples that they simply do not cater for retired people in any of their social activities ; similarly , you may be pushed to find an under-30s ' club in a retirement village on the south coast . |
| 22 | In spite of this we rejoice that we are so richly blessed with good an generous friends throughout this City and beyond that we can give £14,340 to Christian Aid . |
| 23 | The major decisions and judgements he makes in regard to his life are so strongly influenced by his foreign language background , interests and values , that he is known as a linguist , a language teacher , or a diplomat . |
| 24 | They are so strongly committed to their unionism that they are prepared to go some way towards moving some of their evangelical principles into the area of private life and personal choice , rather than alienate non-evangelical unionists . |
| 25 | Few senior ministers are so little known outside Westminster and the City . |
| 26 | Of course , it is hard to know much of women 's thinking because they are so rarely represented in the source material ; for example , having no legal personality in common law , they were forced to remain silent in ‘ crim. con. ’ actions . |
| 27 | What may be thought surprising is the absence of Celtic deities which are so well represented in stone sculpture and reliefs , especially in the west . |
| 28 | Yes Chairman I 'd like to second that and just to erm say very briefly that er erm I , I very much welcome the report and the speed with which the Chief Officer is seen to have addressed most of the issues there are one or two bits that , that were of course were in fact posters , posters er be dealt with erm I have to say I still have some concern erm that the Chief Fire Officer and his team are so well supported on a very broad front on their decision making and their professionalism and yet on other matters of sound advice which has been given by er who are turned aside and just simply not given the proper consideration that they should have as in that er respect Chairman and I , I , I have some concern , erm it , it would not surprise me indeed if the , Her Majesty 's Inspector of er er brigades , when he comes round himself , has some comment to make on that since I think he 's expectations as well are almost as high as mine is . |
| 29 | The UK sales and distribution base aims to achieve the same high standard in sales delivery and technical service that are so well established by Fluka throughout Europe . |
| 30 | The largest-selling newspapers in Britain are owned by swashbuckling businessmen who do not hesitate to interfere with the editorial content of their papers and whose personal politics are so well known to all their staff that the proprietors can set the political tone of their employees ' work without crude , direct , and explicit interference . |