Example sentences of "so [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir : Shabbir Akhtar ( 10 October ) himself makes what he might call a pardonable error in thinking that to liberals — genuine ones , not the compromisers so regretfully limned in John Torode 's article ( 3 October ) - freedom of speech is an absolute value . |
| 2 | He ignites the imagination , nevertheless , with glancing observations of Skye ‘ … so much indented by inlets of the Sea , that there is no part of it removed from the water by more than six miles ’ . |
| 3 | But here again the knowledge is so practical , so much preconditioned by behaviour , that it can be taught and is taught mainly by doing what they are told to do on particular occasions and by not being allowed to do or to touch certain things that are always within their experience . |
| 4 | Marshall has n't so much tampered with Aotearoa education as launched a phalanx of studies and reviews which are now landing with thuds . |
| 5 | But most of the mealtime was spent with her either backing away from his leading philandering comments , or racking her brain to think of some comments or questions of her own — other than those that so easily sprang to mind , but which all centred around his employer . |
| 6 | Yet there are still quiet corners and delightful places to see on the Costa Blanca … and all so easily reached on drives and excursions for those who want to get away from it all . |
| 7 | Engels 's argument is clear : the Germans were able to vanquish the Romans because their society was not so internally corrupted by class . |
| 8 | It so nearly ended in tragedy . |
| 9 | But of all the tombs so far uncovered at Phourni , Tholos ‘ A ’ , which is located well to the north of the two main mortuary houses , is the most spectacular . |
| 10 | The reined-in impatience which so often emanated from Ian was absent , Theodora 's gravitas mitigated and Julia 's social nervousness sedated . |
| 11 | Controversy aside , the fact that Dykstra was called upon so often vouched for Rangers ' ascendancy but the Hateley/McCoist goal machine seemed to have developed a mechanical fault . |
| 12 | With the temperament and much of the left-handed style of Larry Gomes who so often acted as foil to the dynamic stroke-makers of the early 1980s , Adams moved from 23 to 79 before running out of partners . |
| 13 | ‘ The fact that the regime has so quickly and so completely imploded in East Germany could risk a reunification of Germany almost by default before long , ’ one diplomat said . |
| 14 | 736 and so firmly reiterated in Makanjuola v. Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis is by invoking the decision of the Court of Appeal in Peach v. Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis [ 1986 ] Q.B . |