Example sentences of "be so [adv] [vb pp] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The safeguards here may be very good , but they may not be so well understood by a police officer in another country who read about that suspicion . |
| 2 | So perhaps Mill 's claim is that the pleasurableness of life is all that matters but that this can not always be so well promoted by increasing the quantity of low level pleasure as by obtaining lesser amounts of high quality pleasure . |
| 3 | It should be self-evident , therefore , that where individual behaviour can be so extensively influenced by conformity to the standards of the social groups that make up our community and its social strata , then there will be major implications for the marketer . |
| 4 | I feel sure many of your readers will have been annoyed by the way your reporter allowed our accurate and detailed evidence to the Welsh Affairs Committee on the way some planning committees have violated planning policies over recent years , to be so easily dismissed by the chairman of one of the guilty district councils . |
| 5 | ‘ No other part of the body can be so easily damaged by ill-fitting clothing as young feet . |
| 6 | In our cynical era , we might not be so easily bamboozled by ‘ the prophet 's ’ assertion that God , who is presumably on permanent nightshift , speaks to him in his sleep and has commanded the supply of seven frails . |
| 7 | Sometimes , however , the media can not be so easily deployed by political actors and the media may , in consequence , exert an indeterminate and sometimes capricious effect on the doings of political institutions and actors . |
| 8 | ‘ It is a very serious matter that the packaging of a reputable product can be so easily acquired by unscrupulous and criminally insane cheats , ’ he said . |
| 9 | In the emergence of this ‘ young generation ’ of independent means lies the early identification of the sector of the population which was to be so effectively targeted by the market in the postwar era . |
| 10 | She was not in the least concerned at her mother 's solitary state but knew her to be so recently buffeted by events that she would not cavil at two visiting teenagers , although she had intimated to Sam that if she filled the house with them , she would kill herself . |
| 11 | The small money value of profits earned on minor sales can be so quickly absorbed by overheads that the whole exercise is hardly worthwhile . |
| 12 | First is the fact that the same person should be so highly regarded by one English department while being accused of engaging in " discredited intellectual enquiry " in another ; second is the fact that the failure to offer a tenured post to an English teacher at Cambridge should provide the occasion for such unparalleled radio , television , and newspaper coverage of English studies . |
| 13 | His affinity with these older ‘ funny ’ men ( using the word very loosely ) would not , one suspects , be so readily achieved by Ben Elton , Lenny Henry or even Harry Enfield ( who shares much of the same loutish ‘ man of the people ’ charm as Merton ) . |
| 14 | ‘ Withdrawal of goodwill ’ caused many people ( myself included ) to question whether teaching could ever be viewed as a ‘ profession ’ when the ethics which are central to teaching ( responsible and thoughtful care for the young ) could be so readily ignored by so many teachers . |
| 15 | But sonar echoes received from a narrow beam of sound directed dead ahead would not be so readily received by laterally placed ears . |
| 16 | Indirect Rule had far more ideological content than the Punjab creed : it was found necessary ceaselessly to draw attention — perhaps because it was a principle coming to be so explicitly disputed by those to whom it was applied — to the long and careful weaning required for the native to shed his primitive mode of thinking and adopt successfully the ways of the modern world . |
| 17 | It is not at all clear why a person 's life-style , behaviour ( both linguistic and non-linguistic ) and opportunities should be so radically affected by his or her father 's occupation . |