Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] be so [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her lower legs were so badly crushed there was no hope of saving them . |
| 2 | HISTORICAL monuments are so badly signposted that many visitors are unaware of their existence , the Scottish Tourist Board 's chief executive , Tom Band , told a tourism conference yesterday , writes Alison Daniels . |
| 3 | Scottish villages were so frequently attacked and burned , and were so lacking in adequate fortified protection , that farmers and small gentry could survive only by building stone tower houses with barmkins , or walled enclosures . |
| 4 | A survey has found that some hospitals are so badly designed that doctors spend four hours of every working day just walking from one ward to another . |
| 5 | In certain families of butterflies the fore legs are so much reduced that there are only two pairs of functional legs . |
| 6 | Second , if psychotic traits are so widely distributed — and apparently perfectly compatible with mental health — how can they also be associated with such disintegrative states as schizophrenia ? |
| 7 | The fact that these pairs were so assiduously taught seems to suggest that they are not innate . |
| 8 | Here we have , of course , the explanation why these lines are so enormously moving . |
| 9 | People who as babies were handled with love and delight , whose perfect little bodies were so much admired , and who did not acquire ‘ hang-ups ’ from later unfortunate experiences , do not seem to have problems with sexual intercourse . |
| 10 | The Prussian government passed legislation designed to Germanise landholdings in the border districts , but these laws were so badly framed and so crudely implemented that they had exactly the reverse effect from that intended . |
| 11 | Wonderful as many of them are , it should still be more widely stressed by doctors that the health of human beings is so often determined by their behaviour , their food and the nature of their environment . |
| 12 | What has pleased me is the way in which the living material of Rural Studies is so avidly used in Art nowadays , not just in primary schools , but in secondary schools , too . |
| 13 | Settlement had also occurred elsewhere , and the Foreign and Colonial Offices were so badly weakened by alterations and were so inconvenient that an entirely new building would be the only way to provide suitable accommodation . |
| 14 | But not all meals are so readily secured . |
| 15 | Not all coffins were so beautifully made as Mrs Bell 's . |
| 16 | This inferiority problem is shared with most film cultures , but the British felt it particularly hard because the two nations ' cultural and economic histories were so closely entwined . |
| 17 | The problem is that our managerial hierarchies are so badly designed as to defeat the best efforts even of psychologically insightful individuals . |
| 18 | Available goods are so highly priced as to be out of reach for people on average incomes . |
| 19 | In all industrialised nations such strained relationships are no more publicly evident than in the regular conflicts between workforce and management , where poor industrial relations are so often manifested in disputes and-strikes . |
| 20 | As you might expect from such headlong cross-breeding and hybridizing in the incessant search for something different and new , the various types are so widely stretched that the edges tend to run into each other and merge , and the dividing line becomes ever more difficult to discern . |
| 21 | Is the Secretary of State aware that any measures taken to increase car security will be welcome in Northern Ireland , where stolen vehicles are so often used in terrorist murders and other such crimes ? |
| 22 | It is not clear why the motives of the White Paper of 1943 , the intentions of the inspectorate and the hopes of educational reformers were so little heeded in the specific detail of selection . |
| 23 | If only her own emotions were so easily controlled ! |
| 24 | An underlying reluctance to accept change or try out new activities is so well hidden and overcome that she is extremely optimistic and positive when taking decisions and initiating projects . |
| 25 | Where tax-free reserves are so closely linked to capital investment , the small firm finds a greater proportion of profits subject to tax and may therefore be subject to a higher marginal rate of taxation . |
| 26 | Not all religious sites were so openly associated with water , however , despite its popularity in Celtic theology , but caution is necessary when trying to identify religion as the primary function for a settlement 's foundation and continued existence , as so many small towns possessed at least one temple . |
| 27 | The other barges were so deeply encrusted with marine life that it was difficult to strike wood . |
| 28 | Pollution and the removal of riverside hedges have played their part ; but above all , dredging and drainage have ironed out the varied bed conditions of gravel and silt to which the larvae of these and many other insects were so minutely adapted . |
| 29 | Only 10,000 of the necessary terminals are so far installed in shops , though the target is 20,000 by the New Year and 100,000 by the end of next year . |
| 30 | The two cardinals were so loudly applauded that it was clear they represented the wishes of the majority . |