Example sentences of "[pron] [be] so [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if teachers were given the time and opportunity to develop their professional lives in the ways they felt most suitable , the questions and dilemmas that face them are so many and so deep that it is indeed a daunting task . |
| 2 | Much later it struck me as odd that I experienced no superstitious fear or repugnance in the presence of a dead body , although I am so squeamish that more than once I have had to ask a neighbour to deal with a dead rabbit that one of the cats had brought in during the night . |
| 3 | I 'm so depressed and often cry myself to sleep . |
| 4 | I 've never really analysed why I was so angry and so shocked and so hurt . |
| 5 | It is hard to think of two other nations in Europe which are so close and yet , still , despite many noble efforts on both sides , so very far apart . |
| 6 | When the southernmost stars also were divided up , the whole situation became somewhat chaotic ; various astronomers invented their own constellations , some of which were so small and so obscure as to be unworthy of separate identity . |
| 7 | No one could find out why this apparently healthy young woman suffered symptoms which were so intense and yet so varied . |
| 8 | Boniface made claims which were so large and so tactless as to produce enemies like dragon 's teeth , and the French king 's own ambitions eventually drove Boniface into Edward 's camp . |
| 9 | To celebrate the release of Marty 's new album , Jackson have asked us to give away the new ‘ Marty Friedman ’ Signature model , which is so new that even we have n't seen it yet . |
| 10 | By this we mean a change which is so wide-reaching and so fundamental in its effects as to constitute a dramatic alteration of the status quo . |
| 11 | It displays a method of building which was so logical and so satisfactory that it was used from the end of the fourteenth century until well into the eighteenth . |
| 12 | you ca n't say what you want to say because you are so nervous and so on ! |
| 13 | ‘ You are so foreign and yet so familiar . |
| 14 | You 're so young and so very innocent — so completely untouched . |
| 15 | I mean you hardly show , but I could n't help seeing , you 're so slight- and well , I had three myself , and I 've seen my daughters through it . |
| 16 | It is her whole situation — she is so mournful and silently accusing and sometimes , Robert , I think her as mad as Landor with all this nonsense she makes of the Bible from time to time . |
| 17 | Obviously I would n't be happy with someone who is so selfish and so uninterested in me , so I suppose he 's doing me a favour , really , making it so clear . |
| 18 | In front of the entrance there is a pillar of rock forty feet high , called the Soldier Rock , and the entrance itself is so narrow as only to admit a small boat , and then only in fine weather . |
| 19 | All of that I could understand , but it concerned me that she was so nervous and desperately unhappy . |
| 20 | But I might have been speaking to a corpse , she was so pale and still and silent . |
| 21 | ‘ She was so determined and so curious about things . |
| 22 | ‘ We were so debauched and yet we thought we were hilarious . |
| 23 | The fact that we did n't win when we were so close and then let it slip is very disappointing . ’ |
| 24 | Has the desire been bred in us or is it that there are so many and so easily available today that they are no longer considered of value ? ) |
| 25 | Half of it , no where there are so many and so much in electronics which conflicts with one another . |
| 26 | you get these jocks that get up there , big and they think they are so cool and then |
| 27 | At other times they are so vague that almost anything can be interpreted as falling within the guidelines ( rather like the very broad articles of association of a company ) . |
| 28 | ‘ In the towns now they are so busy or so tired , poor souls , or so wretched and idle that there is no time for that calm contemplation of one 's existence which is the best part of our lives and which continues at all levels in a place such as this , among the peasantry as much as among those they call the Statesmen . |
| 29 | Well the first want to say hi two to look at the policy we have with us to make sure they 're so good as originally intended . |
| 30 | And er some of us seemed to be more awkward than others , I mean some people 's feet when you look at them and , and areas like that , that , you think well why did Jehovah make them like that , they 're so ugly and yet without them where would we be ? |