Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was so constantly braced , her will so stiff from desire , that she could not sleep at nights ; she feared that if she fell asleep she might lose her determination and her faith , might wake up alone in her narrow bed , in the small back bedroom , overlooking the small square garden , backing onto the next small square garden , where for so many years she had lain and dreamed her subversive dreams . |
| 2 | And yet , as Raymond Williams has put it , " It is difficult to feel that we are really governing ourselves if in so central a part of our living as our work most of us have no share in decisions that immediately affect us . " |
| 3 | It is particularly true if by so subsidising you are depriving a would be tenant who is cru in possibly far greater need of that self same provision . |
| 4 | " Break off the match because of so small a thing ? |
| 5 | Britain 's manufacturing base is declining not just because the Conservative party seems to care so little about it but because of so many companies ' wilful refusal to respond to changing market signals . |
| 6 | A man of lesser integrity and lesser … care for the welfare of this paper might have been stubborn and even resigned because of so divergent a set of opinions between himself and his proprietor . |
| 7 | As to European political union , it is vital that we consider favourably proposals for increased confidence for qualified majority voting and for co-decision , not just because the Community 's budget is so large that we need improved accountability and democratic restraint , but because in so many other areas — such as in respect of the environment , conditions of employment and judicial co-operation — common responsibility requires the same observance of high standards . |
| 8 | Orphism appealed particularly to the Germans , since like so much of their own painting it was brightly coloured and was simultaneously a more theoretical and a more popular type of art than Cubism . |
| 9 | So we 're more than looking forward to reviewing this one , although before we examine it in detail perhaps we should take a quick look at Lowden 's model-numbering system , since with so many different options available , like cutaways , special inlays , different bindings and decoration , it 's sometimes hard to spot which model is which . |
| 10 | In other cases , evidence has to be weighed and balanced , whereas in so much of quantitative research the aim is explicitly to test hypotheses . |
| 11 | According to his biographer , Henry Bordeaux , even when he landed he remained in a trance ‘ as if electrified by the fluid still passing through his frame ’ Though through so many dogfights he seemed to bear a charmed life , this kind of nervous impulsiveness seemed bound to lead to disaster . |
| 12 | The 1980s have been bad years for lone mothers , as for so many others . |
| 13 | For us two the war meant , as for so many others , a break in physical contact : but if , as Simone Weil said , ‘ every separation is a link ’ , such a break is not a breaking off , but a period in which , at least in my case , that ties of friendship continued in another form . |
| 14 | For E. B. Tylor ( 1832–1917 ) , as for so many believers in ‘ progress ’ who observed communities and cultures which , unlike fossil man , had not died out these were not so much inferior by nature as representatives of an earlier stage of evolution on the road to modern civilisation . |
| 15 | Gatting made the point that they had to win the final two games as after so much cricket they simply did not have the strength left for a third . |
| 16 | As with so much in Leonard 's writing , the passages may be read at different levels . |
| 17 | As with so much else , Gramscian ideas about the political centrality of culture seem beyond the scope of the orthodox left in Britain . |
| 18 | At the same time , as with so much of the work at Oxford , it evidenced a return to the physicality of the body at the core of aesthetic experience . |
| 19 | As with so much work with old people , it is attention to detail which counts : it may make the difference between safety and danger , just as it will between comfort and discomfort . |
| 20 | The pair stayed overnight at Anoch , where the McQueens possessed some small acres of turnips and potatoes , a fact which , as with so much of such crofting , mystifies ; these fields , very little flesh of earth on the bones of rock , seem only capable of mosses and heathers . |
| 21 | As with so much of what he envisaged , the reality did not quite match the vision . |
| 22 | I used to have a file , but I found that , as with so many files one opens , I was putting so much in it that it ceased to be useful . |
| 23 | As with so many things , no sooner had he taken the idea to himself than he began to resent it passionately . |
| 24 | And yet there is here , as with so many issues surrounding Karajan 's work and reputation , the wider question of the degree to which we hear what is there as opposed to what we imagine is there . |
| 25 | As with so many of the primitive plants the arthrophytes had their heyday in the Carboniferous after a probable origin in the Devonian . |
| 26 | She was sold to Mrs Paton and the litter was born in quarantine , but , as with so many litters in those days , distemper took a heavy toll . |
| 27 | As with so many details in the life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge , the exact date of his birth has not gone undisputed . |
| 28 | As with so many of the later youth subcultures , there was no doubt an over reaction to Hooligans . |
| 29 | As with so many of the environmental issues that face us now , every little helps . |
| 30 | As with so many armorial terms the word ‘ quarterings ’ is not used in a conventional way and applied to a shield divided merely into four ; indeed there can be as many ‘ quarterings ’ as there are family affiliations — perhaps the record is held by the five-surnamed Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville family , whose full achievement of arms boasts 719 quarterings . |