Example sentences of "[prep] [be] so [adj] and [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What did he do after being so close and yet so far ? |
| 2 | To be honest I 'm beginning to get fed up with being so useless and just wish that ‘ Failure ’ was n't my middle name . |
| 3 | It was ludicrous to be so young and yet a has-been . |
| 4 | Shareholders would be unwise to be so trusting and surely have little to lose from the insistence that directors comply with externally monitored rational decision-making procedures . |
| 5 | It 's awful how we have to be so aware and always on our guard that we are n't able to live normal lives . |
| 6 | It would be useless to pretend that identity of non-meanings , if it is to make sense , ought to be so explicable and then criticise this idea on the grounds that it can not be so explained . |
| 7 | He found it was too large to be caused by a gravitational field : if it had been a gravitational red shift , the object would have to be so massive and so near to us that it would disturb the orbits of planets in the Solar System . |