Example sentences of "[be] so [adj] [conj] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course I have to say that er software fails as well sometimes and indeed one of the problems we all have is that with today 's hardware technologies some of the er computers are so fast that it really reaches the bugs rather quicker . |
| 2 | Indeed , some have argued that the ‘ traditionalism of his general philosophy is so strong that it virtually disables him from that critical rationalism which is essential for the appraisal of particular traditions ’ . |
| 3 | Ellis 's sense of the quiet solidarity between women , and of the bonds of love that bind the generations together , is so sure that it more than compensates for the novel 's occasional listlessness . |
| 4 | The pattern is so simple that it hardly seems worth studying . |
| 5 | As the Royals have learned to their cost the law is so lax that it actually encourages widespread snooping . |
| 6 | Also , the intonation screws are too long ; on the bottom E , the screw is so long that it literally digs into the string . |
| 7 | The recent flood of cheery indicators is so good that it almost certainly condemns the beaming government to setbacks over the coming months , and to talk of a double-dip recession . |
| 8 | Some of ‘ Up In Downsville ’ is so laid-back that it simply wafts around your ears like tobacco smoke and they have an irritating habit of pulling their potential punches for fear of treading on someone 's daisies . |
| 9 | One , with its morbid traits of personalised delusion , chaotic thinking , and bizarre affect , is so self-destructive that it frequently reduces the sufferer to psychological incompetence . |
| 10 | In fact , it is so proud that it now boasts at a European level of the cheap U K labour costs and the lack of workers ' rights . |
| 11 | Might it be also true of Jackson 's work that its formalism is so relentless that it actually reveals itself as questioning the parameters within which it operates ? |
| 12 | Its functioning , including leap years , is so familiar that it sometimes comes as a revelation to researchers into early English local history to learn that there were several calendars in use in the past , each somewhat different from the other , with quite distinct ways of referring to months and days , and with days whose hours varied in length according to the season of the year . |
| 13 | Life there is so inexpensive that it just takes longer to get it all done . |
| 14 | It is very effective and almost shocking when you realise that what he is saying makes complete sense and the uselessness of war is so true as it really achieves very little good if any at all . |
| 15 | The master 's conduct of his small class was so casual that it soon drifted away , but his influence on this pupil was decisive . |
| 16 | This was a pub with an Irish band , but North , who had Irish blood , may not have chosen it out of sentiment ; the music was so loud that it frequently , and perhaps providentially , drowned out the conversation . |
| 17 | She 's got lots of curly brown hair with a little heart-shaped face in the middle , and her smile was so big that it nearly disappeared into the curls at each side . |
| 18 | The TV appearance was so brief that it hardly warranted comment . |
| 19 | Roots tripped him and rocks made him slip , and in places the path was so soft-edged that it simply dropped away from under him in the darkness . |
| 20 | And Phoebe was so relaxed that it actually amused her to realise that everyone who saw them would assume they were a boring married couple , English middle-class tourists . |
| 21 | Her voice , muffled by the cushion in which she had hidden her face , was so despairing that it almost broke his heart . |
| 22 | Ludo 's brief romance with an English girl was so run-of-the-mill that it hardly warranted mention at dinner parties , let alone gossip . |
| 23 | The expression on his face was so grim that it almost frightened her , and she stared at him speechlessly . |
| 24 | Her beauty was so startling that it mysteriously approached the comic . |