Example sentences of "so [adv] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | So delicately modulated are the forms of the head that the human element appears ephemeral . |
| 2 | How the heavy seeds of goat 's rue become so widely dispersed is a mystery ; nor is there a satisfactory explanation for the very large numbers of Michaelmas daisies . |
| 3 | So widely dispersed was industrial activity that there can have been few parts of the country that did not support it in one form or another . |
| 4 | What is not so widely appreciated is that even after problems of vocabulary and fluency are overcome a more fundamental differentiation remains . |
| 5 | ‘ I think that a valid reply to this objection would be that it is a political objection to the passing of a statute worded in this wide way , not a legal objection to the validity of the Order , it a statute worded so widely has been passed . |
| 6 | Of these perhaps the greatest was that at a stroke all the feckless local officials of whom Wilson complained so bitterly had been removed . |
| 7 | So little had been released from that tight grip , and there was so little natural affinity between them that , for all the hours they had spent in this room together , they remained strangers to one another . |
| 8 | When Zita Hirschhorn heard her name , so little acquainted was she with all that was going on , she cried out : ‘ Ich bin verkauft ’ ( ‘ I am sold ’ ) . |
| 9 | The you so pointedly admonished is the addressee of the poem , Torquatus , a representative Roman , fictionally standing in for the reader at large . |
| 10 | So perhaps escape is possible . |
| 11 | The period you so fondly remember was dominated by activist and economically unschooled regulators and judges . |
| 12 | So much had been expected , yet it was a carbon copy of the wipe-out on the same track three years ago , and may signal a pruning down in future transatlantic visits for the Breeders ' Cup . |
| 13 | So highly regarded was the mistletoe , that it had to be cut with a golden knife . |
| 14 | One reason why chalcedony has been so highly esteemed is that it lends itself to a variety of decorative treatments . |
| 15 | So obviously eating 's generally theirs . |
| 16 | She welcomed the work done and the fact that so many people who had been waiting for so long had been treated , but was concerned that health workers who had been working flat out to reduce the lists would not be able to maintain their work rate . |
| 17 | It is thus important to use language which reflects a real change of attitude to people who for so long have been unwilling recipients of services designed largely for society 's comfort and not theirs . |
| 18 | The issue on CD of these recordings which one tended lovingly on LP for so long has been one of the joys of my collection . |
| 19 | What is not so generally realised is that many deaths and serious illnesses also result from the poisonous substances produced by a range of other animals . |
| 20 | ‘ Losing Danny so suddenly and so pointlessly has been terrible . |
| 21 | And , so utterly immersed was she in this strange blue and green land that was not feeling strange any more , that she did not even notice that she was weighing sorcery against steel chains and seriously considering the likely outcome . |
| 22 | But so physically restricted was the Calais area , and so often was it under French pressure , that for long years at a time all the needs of the garrison , whether in provisions or materials , had to be shipped in from England . |
| 23 | Because it 's so easy done is n't it ? |
| 24 | The kingly rule of God which Jesus proclaimed and so signally embodied is not a matter of mere externals , what you eat or drink ; but righteousness , peace and joy in the Holy Spirit ( Rom. 14 : 1 7 ) , and all three were pre-eminently to be found in Jesus . |
| 25 | I once witnessed an incident that could so easily have been avoided if the pilot had considered a downwind landing as a possible option . |
| 26 | It was the paparazzi who trailed her , but it could so easily have been terrorists . |
| 27 | Obviously I felt for him , I would n't have been too delighted if our positions had been reversed ; and they could so easily have been . |
| 28 | Even the jar looked costly , Alida thought , chalice-shaped , gilt-lidded and made out of what could so easily have been milk-glass . |
| 29 | Had it not been for the empty little bottle in the pocket of her skirt — which could so easily have been swept away by the waves — the fisherman 's description of the likely accident would have satisfied everyone . |
| 30 | This could so easily have been a recommendable mid-price set of Mozart 's mature Piano and Violin Sonatas , but it is arguably put out of court by the early digital recording ( made between 1975 and 1978 ) which gives the violin an unpleasant rough edgy tone . |