Example sentences of "[verb] [be] so [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are people whose early experience of bodily closeness , intimacy and care has been so uncomfortable or so traumatic that they dare not risk a repetition of such pain . |
| 2 | It is therefore remarkable that the amount of co-operation and collaborative work between local authorities and higher education institutions has been so limited and only shows recent signs of expansion . |
| 3 | The withdrawal of earlier death has been so marked that today most English people will have no direct experience of the grief of bereavement until they lose their own parents , when they are themselves well into middle age . |
| 4 | The RoboCop is basically a ‘ man in a suit ’ ; but in the story he has been so reconstituted that even his skin , seen only at his face and not much there until he takes off his helmet , is supposed to be toughened like plastic . |
| 5 | And it would seem to me that unless this morning 's exercise which has been so rewarding and so profitable unless this morning 's exercise is to dissipate into another piece of feeling and er pleasurable discussion then we ought to take quite seriously the , the words of Jesus . |
| 6 | Say is so eloquent that even Cade feels remorse ( 104f. ) , but still has him killed . |
| 7 | The engagements most undertake are so short and so intermittent that they would not acquire sufficient service to gain any substantial employment rights . |
| 8 | The scenes that followed were so piteous that even now , two days after , I tremble to recall them ; and the screams of the women and frightened children are with me day and night . |
| 9 | The recession might not have been so long nor so deep had she listened . |
| 10 | It comforted him to have some definite complaint against her ; everything else he felt was so vague and somehow shameful . |
| 11 | Snodgrass embarked on a story about a very famous jewel called the Koh-i-noor , which he thought had once adorned a great King 's State Crown and explained how it had been so rare and so heavy that it had had to be kept locked away behind bars and guards , so that nobody could steal it . |
| 12 | And the demand for jam jars had been so great that even salvage dumps and cemeteries had been searched for extra supplies . |
| 13 | Their lives had been so impoverished that even those elementary things had been taken from them . |
| 14 | Frustrating or what — it had been so faint and so brief . |
| 15 | This decision filled her with profound gloom ; not only because her home had been so special and so very much loved , but also because the selling of Rose Cottage could do nothing but plunge her into financial disaster . |
| 16 | Elizabeth 's distress had been so evident that even Lydia felt bound to take it seriously . |
| 17 | The picture he had painted was so vivid that once again she felt as if she were about to be sick . |
| 18 | They have been so pervasive and so self-evident that there has been little point in articulating them . |
| 19 | In recent years members of Darlington Lecture Association have heard some remarkable stories but it is probable that few have been so remarkable or so moving as that which John Hawkridge will tell on Monday . |
| 20 | For example ‘ Lord Of The Flies ’ on symbolism , no other book I have read is so well and so believably put together with everything fitting together perfectly . |