Example sentences of "[be] so [adj] [conj] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This chapter will therefore look at status in the landscape , since this hierarchy and the differences in status are so evident and mean so much in terms of why the landscape looks like it does . |
| 2 | Although they are so common and live just beneath the ground , very little is seen of them . |
| 3 | The very fact that they are so unknown and cost so high in human lives seems to me to be a point against the arguments of Enzensberger and Halliday . |
| 4 | ‘ It 'll also be the judge 's — if you 're so foolish as to go ahead and fight me . ’ |
| 5 | He also loves ‘ words which go beyond words ’ — the poetry of Baudelaire , Rimbaud , Novalis , Keats — for he feels that no human language could ever be so rich as to express perfectly all that he feels . |
| 6 | ‘ How can an athlete train and prepare so well and be so good and take so long to recover ? |
| 7 | How can an athlete train so well , be so good and take so long to recover ? |
| 8 | Lili and I were silent and I wondered for a moment how I would be feeling if I was going to marry the man I loved — had loved , I amended in my mind , for surely even I could n't be so idiotic as to love still where I had met with such treachery . |
| 9 | These are individuals whose behaviour is considered to be so outrageous as to fall completely outside the range of actions based on reasons and causes . |
| 10 | I should be so lucky as to get that close . |
| 11 | Ask him to be so kind as to come here and say Mass tomorrow morning . |
| 12 | ‘ I am not myself convinced that the Government will be so foolish as to go so far as to privatise water . |
| 13 | Be a devil and stop being so staid and doing only the things you 've planned to do . " |
| 14 | Both subscriptions cost about £800 per year and both have the nasty habit of being so voluminous as to go largely unread . |
| 15 | But their sports bags , suit-covers and hair scrunchies were so popular that demand quickly outstripped supply . |
| 16 | He had searched the corridors but found only tools that were so old and rusted together they fell apart if he tried to use them . |
| 17 | However , the problems were so huge and required so much finance that other resources were required and the European Community has now taken a leading role . |
| 18 | This process will continue until a price level is reached which is so low as to make so high as to ensure that the effective labour demand function eventually coincides with the notional labour demand function . |
| 19 | Because it is so plain and built entirely of concrete , the car-park effect is instantaneous , yet once get clear of the large struts that support the roof , and this becomes a compelling structure , more stadium than church even now but reassuring to the puritanical visitor after the orgy of nineteenth-century frippery elsewhere in the Cité . |
| 20 | In the key province of Ontario — which contained one-third of the country 's population — the majority in favour was so tiny as to give only a Pyrrhic victory to the supporters of the accord . |
| 21 | He was so subtle as to deceive even the quickest witted people . |
| 22 | I reckon it was cos he was so dirty and ate so slobbery . |
| 23 | This time , it was so unheralded as to appear almost artificial . |
| 24 | The birth was so difficult and took so long that she was starved of oxygen and had to be delivered by emergency caesarian . |
| 25 | Their pay in paper money was so bad and came so late that unless they had peasant relatives who could supply food , they were reduced to making shoes , singing psalms in church , or hiring themselves out as labourers to peasants . |
| 26 | Um maybe it was particularly controversial because it seemed to be accusing er people , men in the family , particularly fathers , of having abused their children anally with all this sort of y'know homosexual connotations of that which activated the number of , as well as a number of fears about about child sex abuse and being a child abuser , it activated a number of rather more homophobic fears , both among the people so accused and in c our culture generally and er that perhaps explains why this er particular incident was so was so compelling and attracted so much com er publicity , according to Campbell anyway . |
| 27 | Others , including the Queen herself , by her own later account , were happy that it was so French and had so little Iranian personality to it . |