Example sentences of "so [verb] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How does it happen that these stimuli are so arranged in space that the right kinds of cells appear in the right places ? |
| 2 | In general the never-married elderly make greater use of statutory services including institutional care than others of the same age , so change in marriage and fertility patterns pointed out by Timaeus may have important implications for future service use . |
| 3 | There is a danger that a Voluntary Organisation may lose sight of its basic aims and objectives and become so embroiled in service delivery that other areas are neglected . |
| 4 | However , E. F. Mott , Director of Education in Liverpool ( whose children were so resented in North Wales ) , found the proportion of verminous children in three Liverpool schools in poor areas to be 18% , 18% ( after inspection ) and 30% ( an estimate ) . |
| 5 | Glad to be so dismissed in peace … ’ |
| 6 | With real concentration and with conscious techniques , carefully followed , you can free many more hours for the activity of educating yourself in the wide ambit of a college life — social , intellectual , argumentative and sportive — and so grow in personality . |
| 7 | It is clear that an element of contrast is intended , with a meaning something like " in writing Othello , Shakespeare becomes an exception , and so stands in contrast to other writers ' . |
| 8 | So smothers in blood the burning |
| 9 | So smothers in blood and burning |
| 10 | Most events take about two hours and are normally limited to 20 places , so booking in advance is essential . |
| 11 | It is hardly surprising the bonds ' redemption was not easy , so clouded in mystique had been their existence . |
| 12 | The Chaplain had been so injured in combat that his best continuing contribution to his chapter was to act as escort and religious awakener to young new recruits . |
| 13 | Forever on the move , meeting new faces , constantly in demand socially whenever she was off duty , Liza Tremayne found that there were longer and longer periods between the days when she still suffered black despair over the thought that she would never again see the man she so resembled in character and who had given her , had she known it , more love than he had ever bestowed upon any other woman . |
| 14 | However , once we start to distort the operation of open justice and the consideration of the matters , we may very well , through the operation of rumour and all its insidious effects that are so damaging in libel cases — the only justification that I know for the high damages granted in such cases — inflict more damage on justice than we realise . |
| 15 | Some of the polished , engraved scrimshaws , so mellow in lustre , depicted weapons ; others , armour , or miniature cameos of battle . |
| 16 | The coincidence between the ordinary predicative and clausal positions is all the more striking in that the inherently restrictive adjectives can not be so used in predicate qualifying position ( where restriction for identification is not appropriate ) ; this is why there is a further contrast between ( 57 ) and ( 59 ) , even though the adjective is one of this inherently restrictive group in both cases , and despite the fact that the property THIRD is certainly compatible in itself with the noun ox : ( 57 ) she considers the Admiral ( to be ) the worst ( e.g. of the village 's gardeners ) ( 58 ) she declared the squire ( to be ) the lazy ( 59 ) the revellers had eaten the ox the third ( 60 ) they ate their steaks well done Example ( 60 ) shows that eat can support predicate qualifiers , so that incompatibility between the verb and the construction can not be given as a reason for the ungrammaticality of ( 59 ) . |
| 17 | It was so wreathed in smoke that it was impossible to distinguish any important features . ’ |
| 18 | So increases in state spending were largely offset by corresponding reductions by taxpayers . |
| 19 | So travel in company and save your money too . |
| 20 | Your Directors unanimously recommend that you vote in favour of the aforementioned Resolutions , and intend themselves so to vote in respect of their own beneficial holdings totalling 117,180 ordinary shares representing 0.07% of the present issues ordinary share capital . |
| 21 | full captain of the British navy commanding a ship of 20 guns or more ; so called in contradistinction to a commander because his name was ‘ posted ’ in the seniority list . |
| 22 | Some countships were more equal than others : a " greater " count was presumably so called in part because his civitas was richer and more important , for instance , as a central place in one of the regna ( like Angers in Neustria , or Autun in Burgundy ) . |
| 23 | ‘ Nothing is impossible , ’ she cried furiously , disappointed that Lucenzo should turn out to be so lacking in integrity . |
| 24 | But the term " Tithonian " , though not quite so lacking in respectability as the " Urgonian " , is usually reserved for the carbonate facies of alpine Europe , and is still disputing with the " Volgian " the honour of being the accepted international term for the topmost stage of the Jurassic . |
| 25 | Unfortunately the report is so lacking in detail as to be virtually useless in identifying individual objects , and there are no accompanying photographs . |
| 26 | So clueless and misguided are these sorry types — so lacking in insight , intent and , bloody hell , a sense of humour — that if a great comedy show ever makes it to TV List magazine it can only be DESPITE the pony-tails whose job it is to shepherd these things to a laff-hungry public . |
| 27 | His reply was so matter-of-fact , so lacking in emotion that she found it hard to believe . |
| 28 | He was so lacking in compassion , in basic humanity . |
| 29 | You are n't usually so lacking in confidence , ’ she could n't resist taunting . |
| 30 | The lease required a proportion of one-twelfth of " waste ore " to be made available at the end of every three years and made saleable — failure to do so resulting in forfeiture of all such material . |