Example sentences of "[modal v] be so [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The relevant details should be so well learned as to be recalled in their entirety without any need to consult the guide during the actual descent . |
| 2 | My thesis is that our institutions must be so structurally altered that , so far as regards permanent legislation , the will of the majority will always prevail against that of the party composing the executive for the time being , and that , whoever may form the government of the day will be compelled to follow procedures and policies compatible with the nature of Parliamentary democracy and the rule of freedom under law . |
| 3 | But this also explains why the music of the counterculture could be so easily co-opted and its radical implications defused . |
| 4 | I think I would n't of thought they 'd be so thick skinned as to turn away help , that so much help , I just ca n't see it |
| 5 | Arguing that a dominant group may be so well entrenched that it is unaware of any potential challenge , Lukes points to the importance of socially and culturally patterned behaviour , to ways of acting and thinking which are taken for granted and which are rarely exposed to serious challenge . |
| 6 | By institutionalising conflict , party politics provides the means by which the accumulated potential of passionate conviction may be so far discharged as to avoid its most damaging manifestations : where the resources available to the forces for and against change are evenly balanced , civil war ; where they are greater for those against change , repression ; and where they are greater for those for change , revolution . |
| 7 | If the change is not well managed throughout this process , different groups ' interests may be so radically affected that the process has to degenerate into chaos before stability can be regained . |
| 8 | Some cases are susceptible to medical treatment , some require intensive nursing care , most respond to education and training and a small minority may be so severely impaired that they may be detained in hospital or placed under guardianship . |
| 9 | ‘ Few projects for amending the condition of the needy , and for the reduction of parish rates , would be so beneficially devised as to build lodging houses in places where they were likely to be let : and in what way could money be more securely deposited than by a general subscription , in shares of fifty or one hundred pounds each : five thousand pounds would build a number of houses , worth from five to twenty-five pounds per annum , or double that sum if furnished . ’ |
| 10 | In this more specific area of debate , the issue is whether or not the child will be so badly handicapped that it will be unable to sustain a life which society would consider to be in any sense worthwhile . |
| 11 | You will not easily find a more absorbing box-set of piano discs , or one that will be so frequently played while others languish in dusty oblivion , often examples of the dull respectability Cortot so demonstrably shunned . |
| 12 | If you try to press petals from a rose that is still closed , the petals nearest the centre will be so tightly curled that they wo n't press into a good shape , and you will have wasted your rose . |
| 13 | A good Thai meal will be so beautifully balanced and so crammed with flavour and texture that it both satiates and stimulates . |