Example sentences of "so [adv] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Moss Evans 's union , the Transport and General Workers , had called the lorry drivers out on the strike that a reading of contemporary newspapers suggests was the event , seen as characteristic of the abuse by trade unions of their power , that most vividly exposed the vacuity at the heart of policy and so most damaged the Labour Government 's prestige and prospects . |
| 2 | It should be noted that just as all deputies combined a school-wide responsibility with teaching a class , so most combined a major school-wide responsibility from the first list above with one or more of those from the second list . |
| 3 | For example , faced with the ratio of a two to one majority decision in the Court of Appeal as against dicta of three judges in the House of Lords agreeing with the dissent in the Court of Appeal and casting doubt on the correctness of the majority opinion , but not expressly overruling it , it is clear that the Court of Appeal must follow the dicta of the House of Lords rather than the ratio of their earlier decision , so paradoxically preferring the persuasive to the binding authority . |
| 4 | Probably not since the French Revolution had a foreign event so bitterly divided the British people , and this at a time when national unity was essential for our survival . |
| 5 | But the formula does work , not least because it so successfully creates an idyllic world of eternal sunshine , preserved countryside and sumptuous houses . |
| 6 | During much of the period leading up to this time the Panel had been considering the case of the large South Ronaldsay family whose father had been imprisoned — the family of fifteen children who so badly needed a positive and sympathetic solution to their problems . |
| 7 | In this way traditional theory ‘ explains ’ in the absence of experience ( i.e. in abstraction ) and so merely confirms the ideological categories given to its consciousness . |
| 8 | Indeed , most forms of agriculture do not so much disturb the natural environment as destroy it and replace it by a manmade artefact . |
| 9 | This will not so much create a two-tier structure within the Division , as enable a wider spectrum of students to participate in the profession , allowing them to stop off , by way of academic attainment , economic circumstances or job notice , at different levels , secure in the knowledge that they have professional status , capable of being upgraded if they so wish . |
| 10 | That is also why it so much welcomed the successful outcome of the Maastricht agreement on those lines . |
| 11 | Pressures for a particular settlement in the Church , in other words , emerged from within society before the establishment of the new regime ; the eventual religious settlement worked out did not so much create the religious problem but rather was an attempt to deal with a religious problem that already existed , although in doing so the government inevitably created new religious tensions in the process . |
| 12 | The exception is , of course , in the pronouncement that shareholders have in effect surrendered their power to professional management , a pronouncement which does not so much face the central question of the rights of ownership as to try to pass it by . |
| 13 | Rachel could see the reasoning behind that , but nevertheless felt angry towards Damian Flint — not because he had so obviously done the right thing , but because he was so clearly in complete control of a situation that had always been beyond Rachel . |
| 14 | She has managed their staff restaurant for 18 years , so obviously has a great relationship with our clients . |
| 15 | The old party structure , which for so long guaranteed the evolutionary character of our society , seems to me to have broken down … |
| 16 | The trust is liable to £35 tax but gets credit for the £25 deducted at source so only paying the additional £10 to the Revenue . |
| 17 | The " no hair " theorem is of great practical importance , because it so greatly restricts the possible types of black holes . |
| 18 | First , the Macintosh was designed as a graphical computer and so already possessed the necessary hardware to provide a typographically ‘ accurate ’ WYSIWYG display and then print it out onto the new LaserWriter printer . |
| 19 | One suggestion is that AIDS patients , like the rest of us , have suffered from common viral and bacteria infections and so already possess the necessary antibodies for defence . |
| 20 | This so exactly catches the current position in the social sciences that , with or without Kuhn 's blessing , ‘ paradigm ’ has entered the language of social science . |
| 21 | Nothing so depressingly encapsulates the heart-rending decline from imperial majesty to federal anonymity which the nation has undergone in her lifetime , than a case devoted to stamps and banknotes . |
| 22 | The foregoing should help to explain why the British so persistently entertained the improbable notion that the Masai were ‘ loyal ’ : the wish was father to the thought . |
| 23 | Without calling for one 's whole attention , it so persistently demands a small part of it that concentration on anything else is ruled out . |
| 24 | But she could n't do it , could n't turn away from him now when she so desperately needed the reassuring warmth and strength of his embrace . |
| 25 | On the way back from the classical ruins of Byblos in an old red and green school bus , co-opted by the bus company for the tourist trade , we drive down the coastal highway into Beirut from the north , towards Martyrs ' Square , so soon to become the front line . |
| 26 | She marvels that they flow so easily to fill the vast space in which she moves . |
| 27 | The difference between their debts and those of Third World countries however , is that while loan institutions can seize an individual 's assets , they ca n't so easily reclaim a nuclear reactor or a dam . |
| 28 | What he would like even more would be to own the fine boat , the means to support the boat ; and the further means to enjoy a style of life which could so easily include a fine boat , because that would surely embrace fine horses , fine coaches , fine clothes : Wealth . |
| 29 | Greed , frustration , and envy so easily replace a loving relationship . |
| 30 | So easily did the rational fear of not being able to exchange their products so advantageously merge , for a whole generation , into the absurdity of supposing that they could somehow have access to a source of wealth other than their own production . |