Example sentences of "so [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think I 've ever experienced a recording which has so intensely provoked so many of my emotions . |
| 2 | Even in this era of psycho-history , it is impossible to think of any other historical character of note whose public persona has been so submerged , and private morality so relentlessly pursued with such ruthless subjectivity on the part of those who have written about her . |
| 3 | When this cloud settles on the skin it causes a red rash , but it is no more than an irritation and certainly nothing to justify the terrible image of this animal that has been so relentlessly fostered by cheap novels and films . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It should be noted that just as all deputies combined a school-wide responsibility with teaching a class , so most combined a major school-wide responsibility from the first list above with one or more of those from the second list . |
| 6 | He was shifting in her mind suddenly , stepping out of the shadows she had so forcibly pushed him into in self-defence , and she realised her attraction to him was more than just physical . |
| 7 | He has been so forcibly returned to his true ethos that when Boult returns , speaking prose , Lysimachus rebukes him in indignant verse ( 118ff . ) . |
| 8 | Modern readers of Middlemarch sometimes find it perplexing that significant social action , even for a woman in a provincial town in 1829 , should be precluded , and that the single exception — the building of cottages — should be so inadequately dramatized within the novel . |
| 9 | No ruler of a large State , however , could afford the luxury of uncritical adherence to an ideology , even one so loosely defined as that of enlightened government . |
| 10 | In particular , it has a lower jaw so loosely connected with the upper that it can be pushed forward like a long narrow spoon . |
| 11 | My only candid opinion is that the thing is so loosely couched and phrased that we could claim we have and they could we have n't . |
| 12 | Secondly , though such a society may exhibit the tension , already described , between those who accept the rules and those who reject the rules except where fear of social pressure induces them to conform , it is plain that the latter can not be more than a minority , if so loosely organized a society of persons , approximately equal in physical strength , is to endure : for otherwise those who reject the rules would have too little social pressure to fear … |
| 13 | Though perhaps not quite so avidly sought after as its Pirelli or even Ilford counterpart , these nonetheless prove to be extremely popular with local folk who send them to their far-flung nearest and dearest . |
| 14 | What has pleased me is the way in which the living material of Rural Studies is so avidly used in Art nowadays , not just in primary schools , but in secondary schools , too . |
| 15 | These admissions are borne out by the way their firms have so avidly bought technology in international marketplaces . |
| 16 | When they were so intimately joined , how would she not know if he were cheating on her ? |
| 17 | She was a retired hospital nurse and Mark had often wondered why her noble profession , so intimately connected with the great events of life , should have made her so petty-minded . |
| 18 | However , the UCTA is so intimately connected with the process of negotiation and drafting in the areas covered by the next four chapters that , as a preliminary to detailed analysis of the precedents , it was felt essential to lay out the principles contained in the UCTA and discuss their application in the light of the case law that has evolved in the 15 years or so since the UCTA came into effect . |
| 19 | In the erotic landscape on which her thoughts now opened , the illusory and the actual were so intimately twinned that only the most cautious eye might distinguish between them ; and at each passionate encounter the symbolic and the literal seemed to enfold their embrace more tightly . |
| 20 | Nor perhaps need one dwell on the powerful thematic use of the expanded , minor-ninth version of the idea , especially as it expresses Grimes 's insatiable yearning for " haven " , for acceptance and respect — a yearning so intimately bound up with his personal tragedy because , to most of us , these things seem comparatively within reach ( whether we desire them or not ) but are patently and without qualification beyond Peter 's grasp : [ 8,10,17 ] . |
| 21 | However , not all change of state verbs can be expected to occur with adverbal adjectives even then ; for instance , murder and burn do indeed produce a change of state that can be described by an adjective but one which is so intimately linked to the nature of the verb and so banally obvious that the adjective describing the object is otiose . |
| 22 | After being so intimately associated with Christ and hearing his parables of the Kingdom and private commentary interpreting those stories , his disciples still expected the Kingdom to come in the material and nationalistic terms of the Old Testament ( Acts 1:6 ) . |
| 23 | Similarly , a blouse which is purchased from a shop as an alienable commodity may then become so intimately associated with a particular individual that it may not even be borrowed by a sibling , After some time , however , the object may lose this close association , becoming , as jumble , an alienable commodity once again . |
| 24 | For one corporeal hereditament to fall within the curtilage of another the former must be so intimately associated with the latter as to lead to the conclusion that the former in truth forms part and parcel of the latter ( Methuen-Campbell v Walters ) . |
| 25 | She had rescued the capercailzie , a black-backed gull and a pair of redstarts ; Mr Hellyer only a case of passerine birds which broke when he dumped it down too roughly on the path , spilling out the small , dry inhabitants into the larger air they had once so intimately known . |
| 26 | Drawing a clear-cut distinction between meaning and grammar is not an easy task , because the two are so intimately interwoven ( this is hardly surprising : ultimately , the only purpose of grammar is to serve the conveyance of meaning ) . |
| 27 | All these writers brought dramatic evidence ( some of which has since been more critically appraised ( Pinneau , 1950 ; Ainsworth , 1963 ) , that babies and young children need mothering — not only the mother 's presence , but the rocking , cuddling and lap play which had been so expressly forbidden — and that to deprive the baby of the natural expression of maternal warmth could prevent normal development of social relationships and permanently mar his personality . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , when it came to seeking allies in Congress , Carter 's position was much weakened , first , by the fact that so few members had any reason to be grateful to the president for their election and , second , because he had so conspicuously run against the existing political order which included , of course , Congress . |
| 29 | Thus , being so paradoxically evaluated by the external structures of their culture , women themselves suffer from an ambiguity about their sexuality and menstruation . |
| 30 | At best it would delay the arrival of that strong and vital recovery on which Treasury calculations on government spending and revenue are so delicately balanced . |