Example sentences of "which [be] so [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are few aquarium fish which are so uniformly peaceful and easily-maintained as the rasboras . |
| 2 | After that they had begun to encounter the behavioural problems which had been occurring in Reykjavik and which are so depressingly familiar to us all . |
| 3 | Behind so many faces which are so seemingly self-assured there lies tragedy as yet untouched by Christ 's love and we , the church-as-a-force , have the costly privilege of being Christ 's channels . |
| 4 | Family honour and pride , which are so easily upset by a woman 's actions , are far less easily affected by a man 's errors . |
| 5 | In fact , the most pressing need , which should be addressed without any further damaging procrastination , is the elimination of erroneous run-out decisions , which are so often crucial , the difference between winning and losing , enjoyment and infuriating distraction . |
| 6 | There are , of course , masterpieces in the collection , by Pierino da Vinci ( no.72 ) , Giovanni Francesco Susini ( no.94 ) , Georg Petel ( no. 361 ) , Edward Pierce ( no.559 ) and Louis-François Roubiliac ( no.565 ) , but it is likely that the greatest nuggets of information will be found in the entries on the more modest sculptures , which are so often difficult to find out about . |
| 7 | The aim is to exploit the plentiful resources of such fish as ling , saithe , tusk and blue whiting in the waters to the west of the Western Isles ( which are so far free from restrictions ) , and to export dried ‘ stockfish ’ to traditional markets in Europe and Africa . |
| 8 | Why it was thought appropriate to leave the important matter of imposing tax on building societies to secondary rather than primary legislation in this way remains a mystery ; but , whatever the explanation , the experiment was a total disaster and resulted in the Revenue producing some regulations in respect of a particular period of assessment which were so hopelessly flawed that the House of Lords found itself compelled to declare them void as being ultra vires . |
| 9 | The basic set-up consists of rather basic apparatus out of a school laboratory — battery , heavy water , metal electrodes and meters for heat or neutrons — which is so widely available that the discovery could have been made anywhere at any time in the preceding half century ; but somehow it has been overlooked by two generations of scientists until suddenly in 1989 not one but two groups in the same location simultaneously announce their breakthroughs . |
| 10 | In the meantime I would ask people to avoid unsubstantiated speculation and unhelpful comment which is so singularly unproductive in these circumstances . |
| 11 | It is on the borderline between a true signal , indicating the nature of the coming activity and establishing specific relations within which it is intended to occur , and that type of signal which is not preparatory or externally indicative but is integrated within the form of a work : a type which we can distinguish as conventions , and which is so fundamentally important that it will be separately discussed , below . |
| 12 | How can a country which is so deeply intolerant of sexual differences in real life offer so raucous a welcome to such creatures ? |
| 13 | It is not without considerable irony that he should choose an example which is so uniquely interventionist as to render his previous assertion almost meaningless . |
| 14 | How blessed you are to live in such a lovely part of England — It is a source of IMMENSE pleasure to me that JONATHAN is such a keen mountaineer and is to make his home here — it will be nice for John in his old age if he , John , deigns to come back to Britain , the native land of which is so very critical , but to whose change or improvement he does what ? ? ? ? |
| 15 | ‘ By signalling the end for the trade union block vote he has brought an air of realism which was so markedly absent under Neil Kinnock . ’ |
| 16 | The eminence referred to is not a striking local geographical feature , and the ‘ small Rivulet ’ is presumably the Fleet River , which was so often flash-flooded as to give the area towards Battle Bridge ( Kings Cross ) the name of ‘ Pancras Wash ’ . |
| 17 | It was n't just the fact that she was going to have to make her umpteenth phone call , asking the electrical repair man to call at the apartment yet again , which was so deeply depressing ; her own personal life — like that of the antiquated air-conditioning system — seemed to keep breaking down just when she was hopeful of a permanent repair . |
| 18 | The penalties , though , were pressures of time and deadlines , coupled with trepidation about handling the area of Effects which was so totally outside Design 's normal field of endeavour . |
| 19 | It blessed the religious communities and thereby committed the Anglican Communion to an official acceptance of monks and nuns in a way which was so far unique to the Churches which came out of the Reformation . |
| 20 | This morning she was dusting books in the reading room , which was so far empty of readers . |