that's so precious

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

"My theme: it's not really the Council members' right that's so precious; it's the voter's right" to choose a veteran incumbent.

"I'm not suggesting our music is the only music," he told The Times in 1986 when the once-endangered musical style he helped create was staging a comeback, "but I am suggesting that there are certain elements in America's culture that are so precious that it would be a shame for them to go down the drain".

"She took something that was so precious away from me," said the girl's mother, Kimberly Marsh.

Francis, still shepherding but now a husband and father, decided he could no longer stand by while others were fighting for his family's survival, and for the beliefs and freedoms that were so precious to him.

"I've spent the last 60 or 70 years hearing about this disaster or that disaster – and 'how can we stop this further catastrophe happening?' and 'we're losing this species, we're losing much that is so precious'..

"The Bush doctrine openly rejects nonintervention in other nations' affairs, something that runs counter to the ideal of sovereignty that is so precious in Latin America," said Greg Grandin, a professor of Latin American history at New York University.

However, they will never be able to defeat the spirit of those of us who believe it is wrong to sell off three school sites and build the new Eastern Cardiff High school on land that is so precious to community life".

I keep what I inherited from my mother (scarves, jumpers, her first engagement ring) very carefully, but this tiny thing that was so precious to her has washed up in my green box.

As a prolific contributor to the "Encyclopédie," publishing nearly four hundred articles, many of them on politics and music, Rousseau appeared to have joined in a collective endeavor to establish the primacy of reason and, as Diderot wrote, to "give back to the arts and the sciences the liberty that is so precious to them".

Dealing with grocery shopping, cooking and eating steals time that is so precious now.

We must amplify our voices so that CMS avoids making a wrong turn towards policies that will harm the Medicare program that is so precious to so many.