Example sentences of "which [vb base] so " in BNC.

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1 But the ‘ and 's ’ and ‘ or 's ’ and the more and more rarely irritate , and are triumphant in the great set-pieces which mean so much to all three books — like that palimpsest of faces in Addis Ababa .
2 What we have not changed is what has made the book so popular with your students , in particular the themes which combine so well the requirements of the exam with the interests of students at this age .
3 Among all the letters in Anselm 's letter collection written by others than himself , there are no others which display so much of the heightened emotion of friendship characteristic of Anselm 's own letters , and they show Osbern 's state of near despair at Anselm 's long delay .
4 She dressed soberly , changed her clothes less often , coiled her long dark hair into its usual long glossy package which lay so neatly upon her neck .
5 She was grateful not only to be with her aunt and uncle in that last year , but to be near Ernest and Charlotte so that they could discuss , usually when the older couple had gone to bed , the life which lay so tantalisingly before them .
6 And so it was that he gained his passport to that respectability which lay so easily on his shoulders by the time his picture was painted : he would be apprenticed .
7 Furthermore , it could be possible to update locally certain factors in the Jarman index more regularly , especially unemployment rates , which change so rapidly .
8 Bones which grow so fast need lots of calcium .
9 The difference now , however , is that such arguments are multiplied many times over , both by the much more extensive use of technology and the great number of technological developments which appear so quickly and exist at the same time .
10 In this way information is gradually built up , helping to paint a picture of the lives and lifestyles of the birds which appear so dramatically in the islands .
11 I have already suggested that in speech we normally plan at the point of utterance and that is evidenced in those typical features of speech which appear so surprising and , indeed , shocking to people inspecting transcripts for the first time .
12 It was like the course of trials which underline so many of the great myths and fairy stories and narratives .
13 ‘ We 've still got a lot of work to do to win the replay but it 's great to get a result like that against a team which cost so much money . ’
14 Having turned only 25 last month , while possessing the fighting qualities which Souness admires , the Reds ' chief could see him as better value than Scales — and the man to put steel into a brittle defence which cost so many points last term .
15 In the course of her book , she gives us by far the most detailed and interesting portrait of Mary ever written , free from the excesses of adulation or attack which characterize so much of the writing about her .
16 Kun is quickwitted and charming ; his easy grace and sweet but never cloying tone are a real boon in the playful little Rosenkavalier -like inflexions which characterize so much of the score ( Bernstein was always so Viennese at heart ) ; his quiet contemplative manner pays rich dividends in the slow movement , ‘ Agathon ’ ( seven of Bernstein 's most poised and affecting minutes ) .
17 Hence the growing importance of the alternative theories of biological class superiority , which pervade so much of the nineteenth-century bourgeois Weltanschauung .
18 And how can Portugal possibly be more beautiful than these mountains , and those cloud shadows which sail so majestically on their slopes ?
19 Frankly however without cost guides which depend so much on shape such an exercise is of limited value .
20 There are more than 600 varieties of mint which interbreed so readily that it can be hard to tell them apart .
21 He spoke of his incentive to art as being that of ‘ exhilarated despair ’ and from nearly all of his paintings there emerges a scream as chilling as that which Munch so memorably depicted 99 years ago .
22 In Los Angeles , where I lectured for a living , I pursued my fascination for the harmonic patterns and golden-mean ratios which run so consistently through the sacred art , music and architecture of both Western and oriental mystical traditions .
23 Perhaps , in a curious way , CDs , which look so much like small-size videodiscs , may have paved the way for a collecting mentality .
24 It was uncertain whether the methods developed to survey fossiliferous sediments could be applied to the deformed crystalline rocks which underlie so much of Scotland .
25 In fact , the striking dissociations that one can observe in neuropsychological patients show us instead that skills which seem so simple and automatic in the course of everyday life are in fact comprised of a large number of functional sub-components , any of which may be impaired by brain injury .
26 Even if everything does go wrong the interviewer will have forgotten the disasters which seem so catastrophic to you five minutes after you have left the room .
27 But it must not be thought that papal conciliar decrees which seem so clear-cut to the modern scholar , who sees them in all the clarity of the printed page , had a similar force and clarity for contemporaries .
28 The ethnography was a means of observing how the wider patterns of society — its inequalities and histories of domination — flow through patterns of living and thinking which seem so ordinary .
29 It does er include a past policy and the Planning Department includes two hundred and forty thousand for erm various statutory fire which seem so any fire growth over and above our list are based on the judgement panel that we are .
30 But first , for me everything was interrupted by six years of army service after which like so many others I had to start again .
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