Example sentences of "so [adv] [vb past] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But afterward that Royall and princelie pleasure being not so much esteemed by the late King Edward the Sixt ( by reason of his minoritie ) and by the two succeeding Queenes ( by reason of their sexe ) , the lesse care of the due execucon of the forest lawes consequentlie ensued , and the keeping of the Courts of Swainmote and justice Seate i.e. , the Forest Eyre became almost totallie neglected and disused ; whereof the inhabitants of the said fforest … taking advantage , did by degrees , especiallie towards the end of the raigne of the late Queene Elizabethe , encroach upon the said fforest lawes by commoning with sheepe . |
| 2 | She did not go into details : that she found herself so physically revolted by the process that she had begun to retch , nor despite being warned that all new mothers had a fit of the blues after giving birth , she had been crying most of that day . |
| 3 | And how would such an affixation cope with the evident fact that the techniques , modes of expression and performers claimed by the counterculture as their own were apparently so easily appropriated by the established music industry interests , and the music spread into every social corner and function ? |
| 4 | His Lordship thought that it would be a strange doctrine of " looking for the substance " or looking through the documents which would produce a contractual intention so clearly negated by the documents and by oral evidence . |
| 5 | I could give many other examples which would kill once and for all the idea so often propounded by the opponents of local income tax that such a tax would not benefit people on the lowest incomes . |
| 6 | ‘ Social imperialism ’ suggests that the main beneficiaries of this policy were British consumers , and indeed one writer has gone so far as to argue a direct link to the Attlee government 's social reforms : ‘ The nationalisations , medical provision and expansion of education so magnanimously legislated by the Labour Ministry were largely achieved because the Bank of England kept the Sterling Area show on the road . ' |