Example sentences of "[be] so [adj] [conj] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you ca n't say what you want to say because you are so nervous and so on ! |
| 2 | Despite the masterpieces they contain , Italy 's museums are so uninviting and so often closed that they have very few visitors : only the Uffizi is over the one million mark ( 1,048,185 ) , with the Accademia in Venice at a mere 183,474 ( compared with the London National Gallery 's four million visitors ) . |
| 3 | For every long contract to which it becomes party there is a matching short , for every dispute with a seller ( though disputes are so rare as virtually never to occur ) there will be an equal dispute with a buyer , and for every case of force majeure in delivery there will be an invoicing back from buyer to LCH and from LCH to seller . |
| 4 | Chomsky has claimed that the principles underlying the structure of language are so specific and so highly articulated that they must be regarded as being biologically determined ; that is , as constituting part of what we call " human nature " and as being genetically transmitted from parents to children . |
| 5 | 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 ? ) |
| 6 | ‘ You are so foreign and yet so familiar . |
| 7 | Among those noting Xu 's habit of using just one board ( ingredients are so fresh and so quickly prepared that food poisoning is not considered a threat ) is Keith Mitchell , team captain of the British chefs competing at the culinary Olympics in Frankfurt next year , and head chef at the Grand Hotel , Eastbourne , East Sussex . |
| 8 | The recession might not have been so long nor so deep had she listened . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | You 're so young and so very innocent — so completely untouched . |
| 12 | Paradoxically , one of the biggest , says Thomas Davenport , a management consultant with Ernst & Young and one of the earliest advocates of re-engineering , is a company 's existing computer system , which can be so complex and yet so central to the firm 's business that it is too expensive and too risky to scrap entirely ( though not always — see box ) . |
| 13 | What did he do after being so close and yet so far ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In the years immediately following 1945 , however , foreign exchange markets were so disrupted and so strongly under the control of government that the post-war government could establish its own internal programme while relatively insulated from international financial forces . |
| 16 | The truth was that she would doze now and then — ten minutes here , twenty there ; but her dreams were so vivid and so close to her conscious fears that she might as well have been awake . |
| 17 | No one could find out why this apparently healthy young woman suffered symptoms which were so intense and yet so varied . |
| 18 | ‘ Gervase would not ask the way , and the street lamps were so few and far between that it was impossible to use our map . |
| 19 | And in the depths of the forest , the humming is still strong , and the wind is still swirling all about us , and something is stirring , something that is so strong and so purely magical that no one has ever been able to resist it … |
| 20 | Dimples mischievously collide with each other at odd places around his face as he glances at me and wonders how on earth I could ask a question that is so dumb and yet so fundamental . |
| 21 | Anything approaching within a distance 2GM/c 2 of the centre is inevitably trapped by the intense gravitational field : space–time is so warped that not even light can escape . |
| 22 | It is so simple and yet so effective . |
| 23 | It is so weak as not really to provide a genuine sense of ‘ conclusive ’ , but this does n't really matter . |
| 24 | Generally speaking , the machine system of section-making is so gentle that only very difficult lithologies and loose sediments will need impregnation . |
| 25 | The damage done by these species is so great that only rarely do they produce enough identifiable remains for them to be countable . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Speech processing is so complex and so little understood that we want as few assumptions built into the development architecture as possible . |
| 28 | This is not so difficult in the tropical rainforest where the rainfall is so heavy and so well spread throughout the year that the centres of many plants are permanently filled with water . |
| 29 | Perhaps in this case the injunction can be ignored since the pattern is so widespread and so instinctively attractive . |
| 30 | The spacing of such steps on pointe is so minute and so fast that it is not possible to see the change of feet as one succeeds the other . |