Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wheels are of the best construction , having wooden felloes six inches deep , with strong iron centre pieces , and the inconvenience arising from sudden concussion has been guarded against so far as possible by the finest description of buffer springs . |
| 2 | Old people have been indoctrinated for so long in the necessary frailty and peripheralism of their lot that this is not surprising . |
| 3 | Initially , I want to consider environmental impact assessments from a slightly different perspective from that which has been referred to so far . |
| 4 | He thought again about how the changes which had occurred in the Southern Capital , to which Surere had now been exposed after so long away , might have affected such an inflexible heart . |
| 5 | The photographer had long since gone , but Kevin Seymour and I pored over the yacht 's considerable folio of charts while we discussed in detail the cruises that have been sketched in so lightly in the previous paragraphs . |
| 6 | Erm The Body , The Body Shop staff were all give were all given training were n't they and , and a lot of details and they had a video that they use with them , perhaps that 's the aspect that 's not been looked at so well . |
| 7 | I do n't know what sort of a pistol he held to their heads , but I personally was quite happy and had never been looked after so well in my life . |
| 8 | I was astonished by the power with which my German crashed out of me , as if in millennial anger at having been silenced for so long . |
| 9 | The fact that it has been written about so perfectly inhibits my response to the place : I have no feelings about Tipasa , only to what Camus has written about it . |
| 10 | Because Boo had not been seen for so long by Maycomb , he was turned into a scapegoat by the adults who blamed him for any thing and every thing that went wrong , and the children thought of him as a terrible monster with blood dripping from his mouth who ate squirrels . |
| 11 | Few systems are closed for so long : bromeliads , epiphytes of the Neotropics , with ‘ tanks ’ of up to 2 litres can contain up to seven species of algae , as well as bacteria , protozoa , rotifers , flatworms , oligochaetes and other invertebrates such as crabs , insect larvae etc. as well as tadpoles . |
| 12 | It is the occupational disease of widowhood , Alida had long ago decided , they are none of them self-sufficient , they have been cushioned for so long they can not keep silent or rely upon themselves . |
| 13 | This should be used to adjust the model in a manner similar to that which you have been used to so far . |
| 14 | Because devaluation has been postponed for so long , the shock to living standards would rattle many civil servants ( though export-oriented farmers would be better off ) . |
| 15 | ‘ Dr Traber added that ‘ for both the media and the theologians , the problem of how to see the world with new eyes should be tackled first by a removal of ideological blinkers which have been worn for so long . ’ |
| 16 | Because my plants are packed in so tightly I spend a great deal of time trimming and tying . |
| 17 | There was commotion in the hall when it was realized that Lenin 's heir had been adulated for so long against Lenin 's own better judgment . |
| 18 | ‘ It is only that I have never been proposed to so abruptly , so boldly before . ’ |
| 19 | It does n't seem fair that my relatively small problem has been dealt with so efficiently , whereas you and others I know have to struggle on with far greater difficulties . |
| 20 | ‘ This represents a constant haemorrhage of money from the business which can only be sustained for so long , ’ he said . |
| 21 | ‘ I thank you for the warning , sir , ’ Theda said demurely , ‘ and will hope to be forgiven for so wantonly playing the temptress . ’ |
| 22 | Any deficiencies in this software may be forgiven in so far as it is distributed entirely free of charge ; no registration fee is requested by the author . |
| 23 | Secondly , agency discretion should be limited in so far as this is compatible with efficient operational decisions . |
| 24 | No other substance at the enormous pressures that must exist at even relatively shallow depths in Jupiter could possibly be compressed to so comparatively slight an average density . |
| 25 | BCG does not say ‘ invest and grow ’ here , but implies that investment should be made in so far as it is needed to maintain a favourable position ; BCG seems to be ambivalent here about the need to invest to increase market share . |
| 26 | In sophisticated market planning , a certain type of work can be selected at so early a stage , on the basis of a few examples or of some calculated or projected demand , that production , from that stage , no longer originates with the primary producer but is commissioned from him . |
| 27 | He wished that Alice Fenwick could be dealt with so simply . |
| 28 | But the perpetual unrest in Argentina 's armed forces may not be disposed of so fast . |
| 29 | Sin could be repented of by an act of volition ; failure could not be disposed of so easily . |
| 30 | This ignoring of non-European high culture and history may not seem important , but it is a part of the same ethos which permits the everyday culture of Asian life to be stamped on so viciously in schools . |