Example sentences of "[be] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will be so particularly in the case of goods which are of a very low price , so that there is little income barrier to their purchase . |
| 2 | This would be so particularly if the employees had terms in their contracts that provided for such extra amounts , or if the employees included directors who were entitled to such extra amounts under their service contracts . |
| 3 | Remember honestly , remember fully and the present moment will be so vividly contrasted with the ‘ once and might have been ’ that a hard heart will be melted and sealed lips broken open by praise . |
| 4 | ‘ If you 're determined to be so pigheadedly stubborn and blind to the truth , so be it . ’ |
| 5 | How ironic that someone who had held her spellbound as a child and had lingered in her imagination for years should have turned out to be so arrogantly cold and superior . |
| 6 | ‘ There 's no need to be so schoolgirlishly polite . ’ |
| 7 | It was quite unheard of for the White House to be so intimately involved in the appointment process so far down the administrative hierarchy . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | said : ‘ I was hoping to make at least one sale while I was here , but I did n't expect it to be so soon . ’ |
| 10 | If it was like that once , why can not it be so again , a land of peace and tranquillity ? |
| 11 | The long stake is ridiculed by the theory merchants , and no doubt will be so again , but when they have had the practical experience , as I have , of losing hundreds of trees through their necks breaking under the weight of an Easter snowstorm , they will learn the commonsense of long staking . |
| 12 | The geographical standpoint in art was basic until well into the 1940s , and I believe that it will be so again . |
| 13 | Tess had never been so happy as she was now , and perhaps never would be so again . |
| 14 | This will be so where he is reasonably satisfied that one of a group of two or more people , including yourself , must have committed an act of gross misconduct ( such as theft of money from a room to which only a very limited number of individuals had access ) , and yet he can not pinpoint the actual culprit , despite having examined all the evidence thoroughly . |
| 15 | This will be so where selection is for a ‘ trade union reason ’ , such as refusing to become or remain a member of a particular trade union ; or if you have been unjustifiably selected in contravention of a customary agreement or agreed procedure in respect of redundancies . |
| 16 | Whatever the nature of the defendant 's conduct this should be so where there is ‘ no breach ’ only in the sense that an exemption clause in the contract allows a contracting party to escape liability in damages for non-performance of his obligation . |
| 17 | This may not be so where the title is unregistered . |
| 18 | His voice boomed , ‘ Haha , ahahaha , no , no , more like a grandson , I should say , but it 's good of you to be so shamelessly flattering — to him . ’ |
| 19 | That I myself did not like Syl was almost immaterial , since I deserved nothing better , but even with my penitential self-disgust it seemed unfair to me , and otiose , that my future husband should be so generally unpopular . |
| 20 | He would be so stunningly boring that even the bankers , account executives , product managers and stockbrokers he counted as his friends would start to back away from him . |
| 21 | The huge Marine — so much more distinguished in his uniform than any motley planetary trooper — planted himself before Yeremi like some human pillar that ten such troopers would be hard put to tumble , should they be so suicidally inclined . |
| 22 | Does n't it strike you that sometimes it might be nice not to be so emotionally mean — to get involved , without reckoning up what the price is going to be ? ’ |
| 23 | If a policeman could be so well endowed with it , despite the obvious difficulties and frustrations of his profession , the ordinary man or woman would surely be brimming over with a joke or two no matter what the occasion . |
| 24 | Extract from a letter received from a disabled resident at Sussexdown ‘ It really is a privilege to be in such a lovely place , and to be so well cared for , there ca n't , I 'm sure , be another Home like it in the whole of Britain . ’ |
| 25 | Mind you , it wo n't be so well done . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ He is fine at present , ’ said Balding , who is running the gelding as an eight-year-old , being of the opinion that he will never be so well treated in the National by the handicapper again . |
| 27 | That is , how to give a child a knowledge of what has been accepted as right and what has been accepted as wrong , or , in other words , of good and evil ; and further , how this can be so well rooted in their minds that it produces in them an inclination to act automatically in accordance with what must be designated civilised behaviour . |
| 28 | The Tournament at Eglinton caught the fancy of the nation at the time but few who were involved could have thought that it would be so well remembered 150 years later . |
| 29 | One wonders whether he would still be so well remembered had he lived his monastic life in the Abbey of Saint-Hilaire in Roussillon . |
| 30 | ‘ They thanked me very much and said how pleased they were to be so well looked after , then they kicked us in the appropriate part of the anatomy . ’ |