Example sentences of "so [adv] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modern readers of Middlemarch sometimes find it perplexing that significant social action , even for a woman in a provincial town in 1829 , should be precluded , and that the single exception — the building of cottages — should be so inadequately dramatized within the novel . |
| 2 | In particular , it has a lower jaw so loosely connected with the upper that it can be pushed forward like a long narrow spoon . |
| 3 | She was a retired hospital nurse and Mark had often wondered why her noble profession , so intimately connected with the great events of life , should have made her so petty-minded . |
| 4 | However , the UCTA is so intimately connected with the process of negotiation and drafting in the areas covered by the next four chapters that , as a preliminary to detailed analysis of the precedents , it was felt essential to lay out the principles contained in the UCTA and discuss their application in the light of the case law that has evolved in the 15 years or so since the UCTA came into effect . |
| 5 | However , not all change of state verbs can be expected to occur with adverbal adjectives even then ; for instance , murder and burn do indeed produce a change of state that can be described by an adjective but one which is so intimately linked to the nature of the verb and so banally obvious that the adjective describing the object is otiose . |
| 6 | For one corporeal hereditament to fall within the curtilage of another the former must be so intimately associated with the latter as to lead to the conclusion that the former in truth forms part and parcel of the latter ( Methuen-Campbell v Walters ) . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , when it came to seeking allies in Congress , Carter 's position was much weakened , first , by the fact that so few members had any reason to be grateful to the president for their election and , second , because he had so conspicuously run against the existing political order which included , of course , Congress . |
| 8 | Thus , being so paradoxically evaluated by the external structures of their culture , women themselves suffer from an ambiguity about their sexuality and menstruation . |
| 9 | Of course , it is hard to know much of women 's thinking because they are so rarely represented in the source material ; for example , having no legal personality in common law , they were forced to remain silent in ‘ crim. con. ’ actions . |
| 10 | What the Aplysia group needed was some process in their favoured animal which could be unequivocally recognized as long-term memory and whose circuitry could be studied in a similar manner to that they had so effectively employed with the short-term processes ; hence the attention paid in the early 1980s to finding an analogue of classical conditioning of the gill and siphon withdrawal reflex . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The information is already so widely dispersed throughout the chemical literature that Pople and coworkers , realising the immense problems and complexities involved in organising a bibliography , decided to set up a database . |
| 13 | An organisation might become so widely diversified in the range of products or services it offers that it becomes difficult , if not impossible , for management to integrate all of the organisation under a common objective and within a single ‘ management philosophy ’ and culture . |
| 14 | That cynical interpretation of the commitment of all those dedicated professionals who are carrying forward the first wave of trusts is so bitterly resented by the health service , which is why the Labour party has lost all credibility with the health professionals . |
| 15 | He seemed to have got so immovably entrenched in the short trouser stage of life that nothing could ever arouse him to a sense of adult realities . |
| 16 | The Towner Art Gallery in Eastbourne is giving the denizens of the south coast an opportunity to experience the start bleakness of the northern territories so empathically visualised by the unique and eccentric rent-collector with his visionary eye and ability to create beauty out of mean streets and the world of factories and warehouses . |
| 17 | It is not clear why the motives of the White Paper of 1943 , the intentions of the inspectorate and the hopes of educational reformers were so little heeded in the specific detail of selection . |
| 18 | The seller can still choose to market the product in a very focused area — as was so successfully done with the " four-walling " concept for marketing movie films . |
| 19 | Its influence must have been very considerable for the boy to have been so successfully supported for the kingship against an adult rival . |
| 20 | There is no intention in these arguments to give any sustenance to the view that corporate officials have been so successfully socialized into the ‘ way of life ’ that they can not see what they are doing or that the organizational constraints upon them were so tight as to be ‘ coercive ’ and therefore excusing . |
| 21 | The policy of austerity and a strong franc , which he had so staunchly defended for the best part of a decade ( and which had earned him such praise abroad ) , was being blamed within France for recession and for the record level of unemployment ( it broke through the symbolic 3m mark the day he handed over the reins of government ) . |
| 22 | The old sadness of the pagan world , so poignantly depicted in the early chapters of Walter Pater 's Marius the Epicurean , had returned . |
| 23 | First of all , there was the problem that had been at the root of France 's defeat in 1940 — the decay of the republican state , which had been so powerfully symbolized by the Third Republic 's abdication to Pétain in July 1940 . |
| 24 | The big Gloucester builder was so badly battered in the World Cup campaign that he had to take six months off work — and he and self-employed forward Paul Rendall lost so much money that they successfully appealed for a hardship payment . |
| 25 | Prospective Labour MP for the town Alan Milburn said : ‘ Hundreds of people have been forced into dire straits because the town has been so badly hit by the Government inspired economic slump ’ |
| 26 | The trade unions have sustained the Labour party over all these years and Labour gave the trade unions the appalling powers which were so badly abused in the run-up to the 1979 election when , as we all know , the country was brought to its knees by a new strike almost every week . |
| 27 | So , after lunching at one of the excellent local inns , we contented ourselves with making a wide sweep South to the River Dove and back up to the Derwent , — stopping at Castleton which , with its show caves and fluorspar ( Blue John stone ) mines should n't be missed and at Eyam which was so badly ravaged by the pestilence of 1665/6 that it is still known as The Plague Village . |
| 28 | So , after lunching at one of the excellent local inns , we contented ourselves with making a wide sweep South to the River Dove and back up to the Derwent , — stopping at Castleton which , with its show caves and fluorspar ( Blue John stone ) mines should n't be missed and at Eyam which was so badly ravaged by the pestilence of 1665/6 that it is still known as The Plague Village . |
| 29 | It is sad about Lovat being so badly wounded during the fighting . |
| 30 | He has enlisted Government help and interest in the RCA ; he has raised money for the renovations so badly needed at the college , and for building additional accommodation nearby for students . |