Example sentences of "which is [adv] so " in BNC.

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1 So you 've got to create something quite simple and effective in which they can be successful , which is n't so demanding as you would for the other group .
2 We went out bit like one of these er soap powder adverts which of these two objectives would you alright given the option to , decide that that is a a good training objective and which is n't so good ?
3 250 They 've become accustomed What they 're forgetting is that this fits in with the stated local plan and with original proposals set out in 1989 which is n't so long ago but people tend to forget that sort of thing 328
4 Most imitate other people 's good ideas , which is why so much advertising looks the same .
5 Which is why so often the thoughts of publishers return to Europe , by which is generally meant the mature markets of southern Europe , Greece , Spain and Italy .
6 Timing is of the essence , which is why so many youthful romances go awry ; she is just getting somewhere with her career but he has already arrived and wants her to be there for him , or vice versa .
7 That is precisely where we have been , which is why so many of the decisions reached in the past two days have been on British initiatives that have been accepted across the whole of Europe .
8 Once that is recognized it becomes quite obvious that the concept of man as a mythical universal being , born free and equal , which is today so popular among intellectuals and slogan-spouting politicians in all parts of the world is not shared by humanity at large .
9 The radical implications of this assertion can be gleaned from an observation of Montaigne 's : ‘ We may easily discern , that only custom makes that seem impossible unto us , which is not so ’ ( Essays , trans .
10 Sometimes the final stage of the journey is made by local chartered coach which is not so well equipped , but we do make comfort stops for smokers and sometimes for meals , at the discretion of the crew , at all stages of the journey .
11 A story of Boudariah which is not so very old , I will tell you , but I think you will not believe . ’
12 In considering the exercise of their powers the local authority must take into account matters which they ought to take into account , ignore matters which they ought not to take into account and then reach a decision which is not so unreasonable that no reasonable local authority could have come to it .
13 This finding , however , conceals the fact that working-class males in these two categories of illness are likely to visit their doctor to obtain sickness certificates — a procedure which is not so necessary for professional employees who receive sick pay from their employers .
14 ( This obviously requires a degree of communication and cooperation , an acceptance of ‘ expert ’ as opposed to ‘ position ’ power , which is not so essential in the purely ‘ legal ’ relationships of line structures . )
15 The reason we have a hierarchical organization of work is not only that tasks occur in lower and higher degrees of complexity — which is obvious — but also that there are sharp discontinuities in complexity that separate tasks into a series of steps or categories — which is not so obvious .
16 They point out , for example , that Japanese companies in particular have for some time been making strenuous efforts to recruit labour which is not so much cheap but flexible and prepared to work hard for the company in question .
17 Table 7 and 8 show that RFA is not so great for females as for the overall population , especially in the case of word recognition , which is not so significantly great .
18 One way of ensuring that such misinterpretation does not occur is to adopt an approach to " experience " which is not so tied to " inwardness " .
19 His examples include [ 11 ] , which is not so obviously related to an apposition of phrases : If [ 11 ] is an example of apposition , then the assumption that cases of loose apposition are reductions of non-restrictive or appositive relative clauses can not be maintained .
20 if you remember the question that the founding fathers faced was how do you create a government which is strong enough to endure and to defend the nation and defend the country yet a government which is not so strong that it erodes the rights of individuals within it , this is the , the essence of the , the problem of government as , as the founding fathers saw it .
21 Elliot , real name Albert Hill , which is not so cowboy-like , mentioned the other day that another book is on the stocks .
22 Well that 's exactly what I mean , a very good illustration of somebody who makes himself more important by coming in fifteen and a half seconds late , which is not so late for a corporate session , but is late enough to , to make everyone worry and so on in that time .
23 I am merely asking for an extension of the logic which is already so well known to Marsham street .
24 Just round the corner is Perry 's , an establishment which is frequently so crowded the council is taking action to reduce numbers .
25 To take a particular instance , we have seen that the form of question with how ? is associated with predicate qualifiers but not with clausal adjectives , and also that the verb believe will only be compatible with the clausal adjective ; it follows that the second part of the exchange in ( 70 ) should be odd or ungrammatical , which is indeed so : ( 70 ) LECTURER : The Venetians believed their proposals generous … ( interrupted by sound of electric drill next door ) MEMBER OF AUDIENCE : * How did the Venetians believe the proposals ?
26 Much of this picture has been surmised from the pioneering excavation of Old Hangleton by Mr Holden : surprisingly , given the common image of medieval squalor , there was none of the rubbish which is usually so rich a ground for archaeologists .
27 She could certainly be tidier around the apartment , which is usually so spick and span when she arrives .
28 A further characteristic which is perhaps so obvious that it is rarely remarked on , is that farming is a skilled occupation .
29 Which is more so is n't it ?
30 The concept of political freedom , which is now so frequently bandied around by the coiners of political slogans , was , so far as we know , first developed in Athens in the fourth century BC where at least two-thirds of the population had the status of chattel slaves .
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