Example sentences of "so [adv] [verb] the " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Since we 've got our captive financial expert at our mercy tonight , and since we so rarely have the pleasure of seeing him , should n't we demand a progress report ? ’ |
| 4 | Perhaps that is why it so effectively renders the thoughts of a people whose analysis of the world differs so radically from our own . |
| 5 | Now he strode out not apprehensive that he might have lost contact with that gift of powerful calm which had so effectively stilled the thresh of his emotions , but confident that as soon as he reached the Point and stood as and where he had first stopped — the experience would be renewed and reinforced , the key would fit the lock . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Thanks and praise to the four staff members who so successfully ran the party . |
| 8 | Thanks and praise to the four staff members who so successfully ran the party . |
| 9 | Scheherezade begins the long series of tales that constitute The Arabian Nights , so successfully stimulating the King 's curiosity to hear more that he constantly defers the order for her execution . |
| 10 | Nevertheless by 1980 Apple was a $300 million company and personal computers had so successfully invaded the office that in 1981 IBM — which had originally scorned the little machine — introduced its first model called simply the IBM PC . |
| 11 | Sir , — May I offer my sincere thanks to the many voters who so successfully supported the candidacy of Gerald Malone in Alton , Holybourne , Chawton and Beech . |
| 12 | These clock-towers , so powerfully counterpointing the essentially horizontal nature of the railroad , often reached staggering heights . |
| 13 | Does he realise that we need to deal urgently with the special car tax and to review the punitive arrangements affecting company cars that have so badly hit the Jaguar car company in my constituency ? |
| 14 | D' you think I 'm well off , is that why I live in this flat , on this estate where no one talks to you because they 're afraid and people like you can come bursting in any hour of the day or night because the place is so badly built the locks do n't fit the doors anyway . |
| 15 | The stone here was so badly scorched the brick had turned to a blackened powder . |
| 16 | Though Mel Brooks 's Spaceballs is principally a take-off of Star Wars , its opening march-past shot of an apparently endless spaceship , ever so slowly passing the camera , all lumps , bumps and ‘ functional ’ excrescences , could just as easily be harking back to 2001 . |
| 17 | The last word must go to Alfred Russel Wallace , who so brilliantly understood the forces acting on this distribution and wrote over a century ago : |
| 18 | So apparently have the majority of women . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | So perhaps to imagine the postman 's work in isolation is to imagine him walking down a street posting letters , or at least sealed envelopes , but imagining the houses as mere facades , with no rooms or people behind . |
| 21 | Indeed , most forms of agriculture do not so much disturb the natural environment as destroy it and replace it by a manmade artefact . |
| 22 | THE LAST 10 days or so have not so much shaken the world as utterly changed it . |
| 23 | Flowers , a surprise call-up a month ago when the squads for the World Cup double in Poland and Norway were announced , so much looked the part as Chris Woods 's stand-in that he may have leapfrogged up the goalkeeping queue . |
| 24 | This sort of reading is only for the dedicated follower of the history of taste , though any reader particularly interested in a picture may find within a single catalogue entry an acutely discriminating judgement or interesting facts ; for example , Tietze 's entry also points out that Manet so much admired the Tintoretto self-portrait that he made a copy of it . |
| 25 | In this case , although people were selective about which bits of the past they emphasized ( concentrating on state-renouncing ) , they did not so much reinterpret the past in the light of their present preoccupations ; rather , they polished an idealized account of rights , with their ancestors as heroes of duty . |
| 26 | That is also why it so much welcomed the successful outcome of the Maastricht agreement on those lines . |
| 27 | In his ‘ Histoire anecdotique du Cubisme ’ Salmon records their disappointment.l Gertrude Stein writes that ‘ Tschoukine who had so much admired the painting of Picasso was at my house and he said almost in tears , what a loss for French painting . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Labour has not so much won the battle of ideas as deserted the field . |
| 30 | The crisis over the succession which emerged at the end of Anne 's reign did not so much divide the parties , but split the Tories . |