Example sentences of "so [adv] [vb pp] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were he not so useful and entertaining on his main subject , Boswell might easily call all his facts into question by such a blatant lie , so blatantly told to curry Establishment favour in London . |
| 2 | Burleigh itself had been founded — no , started — between the wars , had survived the Depression ( as the South of England middle classes in general had so signally managed to coast blithely through the Depression ) and had offered over the years an alternative to the Grammar , Secondary Modern and Technical Schools of the town of Cullbridge . |
| 3 | So far lost to sanity were many of the Dark Elves that they readily agreed . |
| 4 | It 's a troublesome beast , this poetic ambiguity which we are so often taught to value more highly than the explicit . |
| 5 | It is ironic that this should have happened under a Government so strongly committed to decentralisation , privatisation and the reduction of the role of the state . |
| 6 | Most metals in gastric juice , with the exception of parietal cell derived potassium , are of extracellular origin and diffuse into the gastric lumen , so the presence of any iron in fasting gastric juice is surprising since plasma iron is so tightly bound to transferrin . |
| 7 | As the language of mathematics is so tightly defined , the ability to use mathematics to communicate in a particular language may take longer to develop than we would expect , and this may lead us to underestimate pupils ' grasp of ideas , particularly since language is so closely related to culture . |
| 8 | A really well-designed state pension scheme ( complete with lump sums ) and not so closely tied to employment history as any of the current schemes on offer , could probably do as well or better than occupational or personal pension provision for most women . |
| 9 | His pursuit of the same approach in his cantatas arose perhaps from a firm conviction of what would succeed in a genre so closely allied to opera , perhaps from innate conservatism . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Controlling activities arc so closely linked to Planning and Decision-making activities that it would be advisable to study the next two chapters in conjunction with Chapters 16 and 17 . |
| 12 | John Paris , in his biography of Davy published in 1825 , wrote : ‘ I have been able to present to the world a complete history of those proceedings which have so happily led to discovery of which it is not too much to say that it is at once the pride of science , the triumph of humanity and the glory of the age in which we live . ’ |