Example sentences of "[art] [adv] so [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was true that the Simonova 's earthing crew had been slow to react — the more so since they must have been required to perform a similar task on both of the platforms which had been docked and inspected previously . |
| 2 | But even some admirers were puzzled by the aggressively public way he has pursued it , the more so since he has been careful to acknowledge that there may not be enough rebels to defeat the Government 's legislation with — ‘ a sad day for me ’ — Labour 's help . |
| 3 | Harfleur had taught him a lesson : he must be properly prepared for siege warfare , all the more so since he now planned a conquest which could only be achieved through sieges and the show of effective military might . |
| 4 | The more so since I possess your well-known restraint only in small measure . ’ |
| 5 | As a result she was present at the important council meetings at the end of the year and it would be surprising if her voice was not heard in the discussions about the future of Aquitaine — all the more so since she could be expected to have some influence over her children , and particularly over Richard . |
| 6 | However , by assimilating and making their own so many Greek gods , literary conventions , artistic forms , philosophical ideas and social customs , they put themselves and the Greeks in a unique reciprocal situation ; the more so because they made their own language an instrument of thought which could rival Greek and render Greek ideas with remarkable precision ( though the Greeks never quite accepted the fact ) . |
| 7 | Absurdly , she felt hurt ; the more so because she understood his feelings about his name . |
| 8 | There was something about her that was sensuous , all the more so because she had no idea about it . |
| 9 | Robbie bristled indignantly , the more so because she had felt strangely bereft at the thought of being without his company . |
| 10 | It is an emphatic enclosure : the more so because it permits movement , through its mouth , between outside and inside . |
| 11 | It is perhaps also the feature which from a ‘ curriculum manager 's ’ viewpoint most restricts his or her professional discretion — all the more so because it is an extension of the existing educational culture : an innovation which to many people seems commonsensical , operating as it were ‘ with the grain ’ of the system . |
| 12 | It was a small undertaking , only sixteen feet wide , three feet deep , and about three miles long , but it was a remarkable work for its time , all the more so because it was a municipal enterprise . |
| 13 | Let us never forget that although the environment is all around us , it is not unalterable , that to change it is to influence people , that ecology is potent , the more so because it is often unnoticed . ’ |
| 14 | This is a very useful formulation , all the more so because it echoes another one , developed quite independently from a case study of the Mexico-US border . |
| 15 | Anne Hammond 's courageous acceptance of the cruel hand fate had dealt her had moved her far more than she would have believed possible , the more so because it only seemed to emphasise her own feeling of helplessness . |
| 16 | Beneath his new submissiveness Herr Nordern felt another flicker of exasperation , the more so because he was being submissive . |
| 17 | It was always good , the more so because he spent a great deal of time trapped indoors by his choice of work , a choice governed by his wish to acquire a useful little nest-egg in a relatively short time . |
| 18 | And yet , if we look for signs of the biblical revival that the Council wanted to awaken , in many ways and in many parts of the Catholic world the answer is indeed ‘ yes ’ , and all the more so if we remember how much leeway there was to be made up in knowledge and use of the Bible by Catholics . |
| 19 | Selection itself — the choice of this material rather than that — can be a hidden form of indoctrination and the more so if it comes in the garb of so-called publicly agreed authority . |
| 20 | Nor do you know how cruel that blindness and weakness can be — and all the more so when they are sugared over with sentiment and concern , with the pretence of tenderness . |
| 21 | On this basis alone the islands have clearly exceeded their carrying capacity , the more so when it is realised that almost all the food imports are in the form of foreign aid . |
| 22 | The more so when he thrust this fearful object at me , shamefacedly , hurriedly . |
| 23 | He was hugely amused by it , the more so as we paced up and down in exasperation . |
| 24 | ‘ Why , you must both come with us , ’ said Fräulein Müller to Karelius ' gratification , the more so as he glimpsed the chagrin in Lapointe 's dark face . |
| 25 | If it covers the case only superficially there is the possibility of palliation and suppression without cure , the more so as it is repeated so frequently . |
| 26 | Woolwich would have expected any refusal of payment to lead to collection proceedings which would have been gravely embarrassing for Woolwich , the more so as it would have been the only building society refusing to pay . |
| 27 | Woolwich would have expected any refusal of payment to lead to collection proceedings which would have been gravely embarrassing for Woolwich , the more so as it would have been the only building society refusing to pay . |
| 28 | Keep a good lookout and stay back from the line a little so that you do n't get into problems with people on starboard tack , then look for a gap to tack into . |
| 29 | It will keep you here a little so that you may have time to make your plans . ’ |
| 30 | ABBERLEY : Would you mind turning your cardiograph around a little so that I can see it ? |