Example sentences of "so [adv] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in this era of psycho-history , it is impossible to think of any other historical character of note whose public persona has been so submerged , and private morality so relentlessly pursued with such ruthless subjectivity on the part of those who have written about her . |
| 2 | When this cloud settles on the skin it causes a red rash , but it is no more than an irritation and certainly nothing to justify the terrible image of this animal that has been so relentlessly fostered by cheap novels and films . |
| 3 | I join the House in expressing sympathy to the families who have been so griveously bereaved through this tragedy , a tragedy that has been the experience of so many of the British people in Ulster over the past 20 years . |
| 4 | What is theoretically and politically interesting and puzzling is not that it has been defended by the powerful and the better-off sections of the community but that it has been so widely accepted by those who suffer as a result of its continuance . |
| 5 | More fundamentally , the Act of Settlement of 1701 , by asserting the right of Parliament to decide the succession to the throne , struck a decisive blow at the mystique of absolute hereditary monarchy still so widely accepted in many parts of the continent . |
| 6 | This view is commonly known as Positivism and , in its heyday , was so widely diffused among social scientists that to spell it out would have seemed a mere statement of the obvious . |
| 7 | No medical text has ever been so widely used by successive generations of medical students and doctors . |
| 8 | Although to my knowledge no digital scanner has yet succeeded in penetrating the ravages of gall , that most seductive and most lethal of enhancing media so widely used by 19th-century archivists , electronic cameras and image processors are working effectively on fire damage , glue and other forms of obliteration . |
| 9 | It would seem , therefore , that there is considerable benefit to be obtained from the use of portfolio matrices , even if this view is not now so widely held in corporate-strategy literature . |
| 10 | I felt it would be presumptuous , perhaps dishonourable , for me , so little versed in veterinary matters , to superintend the interests and growth of the infant school ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ I — I know it 's silly Aunt Emily , but I 'm — I 'm so little used to late nights that I do feel absurdly tired . |
| 12 | The redating of many major groups in publication prior to 1960 , would be a considerable undertaking , but the time may have to come when this should be considered seriously , though the rather tentative suggestions made in the CBA Student 's Guide ( Webster , 1970 ) do not go very far in meeting this need , so badly felt by those now beginning in this study . |
| 13 | The legends are screen-printed on , that 's one better than stick-on , but so badly done in some cases that it 's a toss up as to which is the worst method ! |
| 14 | I have been trying to draw attention away from the great cities , which were quite uncharacteristic of the scene in our centuries , and to focus on the small or middling sort ; and here we meet the doctrine so brilliantly established in recent decades by Philip Jones : that the Italian cities were essentially market towns in origin , in which nobles and knights and farmers and peasants had a common interest ; very often the knights lived as much in the towns as in their country fortresses or castles . |
| 15 | The timber industry , which offers jobs and promises , is popular now , but will it be so fondly regarded in 2005 when all of Sarawak looks like this ? |
| 16 | So much rides on this one game and not just the financial prize , considerable though that is . |
| 17 | BELVILLE : I do not apprehend myself to be quite so much obliged for those intentions . |
| 18 | Such misbehaviour of strata in their most classic sections leads me to have serious doubts ( in fact , positive hatred ) of the concept of the " stratotype " so much favoured by many continental workers . |
| 19 | Not so much bound by formal rules and procedures as large organisations . |
| 20 | Her husband , Norman , who works in the flatshop at Royal Tuscan , said : ‘ Dottie had been so much comforted by one of these special beds in her last weeks . |
| 21 | Sir Maurice Powicke rightly emphasized the domestic character of high politics , when so much depended upon dynastic marriages , connections and alliances within an enlarged family circle . |
| 22 | As things stand , sadly , Bailey , one of only 13 homegrown batsmen to begin the summer brandishing a career average in excess of 40 , has not so much tripped between two stools as toppled into a black hole . |
| 23 | So much depends upon individual circumstances that little would be gained from cataloguing here the many court cases on this subject over the past century or so . |
| 24 | [ Yet ] give him [ the American ] all these advantages , and he will still be longing to cross the water , to get back to that old home of his fathers , so delightful in itself … the less wealthy , less cultivated , less fastidious class of Americans are not so much haunted by these longings … |
| 25 | The second one was much more difficult because I had to come up with a script every couple of weeks , and there was so much crammed into each one . |
| 26 | Poor health itself , so much associated with old age , is affected by lack of money for nourishing food , warm houses and holidays . |
| 27 | So much work for one angel . |
| 28 | They drew away from each other , so mutually sated with explosive body contact that both needed a temporary reprieve . |
| 29 | That is why British industry is so adamantly opposed to that ridiculous directive . |
| 30 | De Niro 's diner has been so eagerly anticipated with some magazines printing details of the menu months in advance that it has nearly overshadowed Tribeca Productions , which has quietly put together an impressive list of future projects . |