Example sentences of "so [verb] by [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the dead live , the living are as dead as the focal statue of the mother and child , for Sir Leicester has no children , and the domestic affections , so prized by the Victorians , have departed from his house . |
| 2 | Producers were so busy fighting their own corner , and so mesmerized by the success of Hollywood , that they did n't have the strength to argue that keeping the industry fragmented and flexible , learning from Hollywood 's example without simply imitating its outward forms , might be a better way of catering for a market the size of Britain than heading up the road of monopoly . |
| 3 | It is not said on the form containing the request that the judicial view will be treated as confidential , but it has always been so regarded by the Lord Chief Justice and the judges . |
| 4 | Captain Allan Border , as hard and uncompromising as any professional cricketer could be , was so shaken by the news of the loss of his right-hand man that he refused to take the field for the start of the final day 's play of the fourth Test . |
| 5 | Wordsworth lived by his beliefs for eight years , but in 1805 he was so shaken by the death of his brother John that his self-sufficiency collapsed . |
| 6 | Although it can not be entirely free of period distortions , it shows more modest fluctuations in fertility than the TFR and in particular gives an estimate of fertility of over 2 children for most of the time since 1972 , not the 1.8 or so given by the IFR . |
| 7 | Perhaps he had been so fascinated by the sight of the advancing waters that he had delayed his escape too long . |
| 8 | Yet in a former Durham pit village , although all had either been made redundant or been forced out of work by ill-health , a group of miners were so sustained by the community network of neighbours and relatives that giving up work seemed a positive blessing . |
| 9 | It is unacceptable that women and particularly Black women 's demands and fears should be so dismissed by the police . |
| 10 | [ I was ] so oppressed by a sense of sin that I felt almost as if I should die ! |
| 11 | Your former employer should pay the amount so claimed by the Department in respect of social security benefits that you have received . |
| 12 | Indeed , all in all , I can not see why the option of her returning to Darlington Hall and seeing out her working years there should not offer a very genuine consolation to a life that has come to be so dominated by a sense of waste . |
| 13 | There has never been a time , it seems , when the world has been so dominated by the politics of nationalism . |
| 14 | His reputation was such , however , that a photographer from the New York Times arrived and another member of the audience was so overwhelmed by the occasion that she described Eliot 's face as " that of an archangel who has too much work to do , and so does only half of it leaving the rest to the North Wind " . |
| 15 | One of the drawbacks in presenting such a wide range of analytical exercises in quick succession is that we become so overwhelmed by the options that we end up by doing nothing . |
| 16 | One of the elderly ministers in the delegation was so overwhelmed by the King 's kind promises that he burst into tears of joy and thanked His Majesty . |
| 17 | The bloodhound 's nose may be so overwhelmed by the scent of fresh skin cells that it is unable to follow them . |
| 18 | At first the victim was so devastated by the attack that she did n't report it to the police . |
| 19 | He reckoned that the islanders would be so devastated by the deaths of their children that they would be incapable of taking up arms against the invaders and , later , would be easily subjugated . |
| 20 | It 's not uncommon for victims of rape to be so traumatized by the attack that they delay , or in some cases never report the matter to police . |
| 21 | Mungo had been so unnerved by the feather and the peculiar note that it had taken him several moments to decide on the next move ; not the next major move in his life , but literally the act of moving an arm or a leg . |
| 22 | In fact he was so unnerved by the pitch that after an exploratory foray up the finishing wall and the placement of one runner , he returned and refused to lead further . |
| 23 | The judge pronounced that , as he was so attracted by the number four , he would be sentenced to sixteen years ' imprisonment , four years for each of his four ‘ marriages ’ . |
| 24 | 9.13 Tenant 's property If after the Tenant has vacated the Premises on the expiry of the Term any property of the Tenant remains in or on the Premises and the Tenant fails to remove it within [ 7 ] days after being requested in writing by the Landlord to do so or if after using [ its ] best endeavours the Landlord is unable to make such a request to the Tenant within [ 14 ] days from the first attempt so made by the Landlord : |
| 25 | Few Yek were happy at sea , and a ship-borne invasion of Y'frike years earlier had come close to failure at one point because the reinforcements delivered to its shores had been so weakened by the effects of their voyage . |
| 26 | She was so weakened by the treatment that her parents had to teach her to walk and talk again . |
| 27 | The Empire 's army was so weakened by the loss of its forces that Sigismund could do nothing but watch and wait while the Orc hordes devastated the surrounding lands . |
| 28 | In some areas of Britain local voluntary organizations , or perhaps one of the arms of the public sector services , have become so disheartened by the lack of commitment and enthusiasm on the part of local psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses for developing a new style of service away from their traditional hospital base that they have decided to go ahead and develop a new service without any support from the consultants and hospital staff . |
| 29 | A Bill will go to the latter two types of committee only if it is so moved by a Member immediately after second reading and so decided by the House . |
| 30 | But he was so moved by the film that he launched a campaign to raise the money at the place where he worked . |