Example sentences of "a [noun] in so " in BNC.
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| 1 | So small a boat in so vast a sea . |
| 2 | It was held that the defendant who had sought to push through the police cordon was committing the offence of obstructing a constable in so doing . |
| 3 | There are the careerists amongst the senior management of the school , some of whom will seem to have ‘ sold out to the system ’ : to affect a philosophy in so far as it looks in their own interests to do so , to have become executives and to have lost touch with the pupils . |
| 4 | She should n't insist on being called Caroline and treated like a girl in so many ways . |
| 5 | In 1918 Sanders thought he had a chance to become Chief Secretary for Ireland , but was soon reduced to considering himself as a possible Speaker ; in 1921 he was passed over for Chief Whip because it did not suit the coalition to have such a partisan in so sensitive a post . |
| 6 | As I have often said , I believe that Israel within her pre-1967 frontiers is a democracy , which is not true of many , if any , other states in that part of the world , but she is not a democracy in so far as the occupied territories are concerned . |
| 7 | Its crushed her windpipe , and the doctors have put a pipe in so she can breathe . |
| 8 | It was a success in so much one did out of fifth M O Ts that prove to be forged and was identified very quickly . |
| 9 | But Venables became a personality in so many other walks of life as well . |
| 10 | er or a surgery in so |
| 11 | There is some authority to suggest that a doctor is under a duty to prevent the suicide of such a patient in so far as there is a duty to control the patient . |
| 12 | What was happening to them that this awareness had reached such a pitch in so short a time ? |
| 13 | It must therefore be recognised that a court which has jurisdiction under article 5(3) over an action in so far as it is based on tort or delict does not have jurisdiction over that action in so far as it is not so based . |
| 14 | Lawfulness is clearly an issue in so far as one of the fundamental principles of the British , no less than most other constitutions , is that government action should take place under the authority of , and in accordance with law the narrow literal meaning of the rule of law — so that repeated unlawful actions or a perceived casualness towards the duty to comply with the law would in itself begin to raise doubts about the legitimacy of governmental action . |
| 15 | Er I ca n't , you know , there seems to be an inconsistency in so many people who are against national wars but er would say that what we need is a revolutionary situation in order to change things for the better within society . |