Example sentences of "[be] so [adj] [conj] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes these first impressions are so strong that they stubbornly linger and defy revision even when different signals are being transmitted by subsequent visual behaviours . |
| 2 | inge , we 're our own which means that we are , our problems are so limited that we actually carry the liability ourselves , we do n't even have to use an external company to get the rates on . |
| 3 | You are so ignorant that you really believe you represent the ‘ street ’ . |
| 4 | These are so faint and they only show up because of the long time exposure . |
| 5 | If this happens they are so premature that they nearly always die . |
| 6 | If two tailless Manx cats are mated , the kittens are so deformed that they nearly always die before birth . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We now impound fluctuations due to the weather in ceteris ceteris paribus , and neglect them provisionally : they are so quick that they speedily obliterate one another , and are therefore not important for problems of this class . |
| 9 | The strands are so fine that they usually can not be detected by cetacean sonar , unlike the older type of multifilament cotton nets . |
| 10 | Admittedly , ethnography presents us with a few ( but very few ) examples of value systems in which inequality of status is viewed as a moral evil ; but these cases are so exceptional that they probably always represent transient states of society . |
| 11 | John tells me , by the way , that the response to his trolleybus venture has been so great that he now plans to do something along similar lines , as you might say , with the railways . |
| 12 | Nor does anyone else , thought Sara ; why does everyone think they 're so unusual because they never forget a face ? |
| 13 | Still a few sea bass here , though they 're so delicious that they hardly have time to freeze . |
| 14 | The Anglican Henry Dannett provided a further fall-back epistemological basis for vindicating antislavery perceptions of the moral order by arguing that even ‘ if scriptural decisions should appear to contradict our ideas of right and wrong we are still bound to follow those ideas because we can not be so certain that we rightly understand and justly limit those scriptural decisions as we are of our own ideas of right and wrong ’ . |
| 15 | I do n't know how you can be so tired when you only get up at half past ten in the morning ! |
| 16 | An acute effect of alcohol on the brain is that memory functions may be so disrupted that they temporarily fail altogether and this results in a " blankout " , as previously described . |
| 17 | Sometimes their anxiety and an uneasy feeling compel them to move like Arsenicum and , even though it makes the pains worse ( < ) , they can not keep still ; or the pains can be so violent that they also have to move but it still makes the pains worse ( < ) . |
| 18 | It reminds us of the adaptability of old people about which earlier comment has been made and suggests that the rigid divisions between the sexes in tending roles , although still powerful , may not be so impermeable as they sometimes appear . |
| 19 | Often these problems are merely irritating , but for some women the problem can be so severe that they way they live their life can be affected . |
| 20 | In a fast-moving world , family members may be so busy that they hardly see one another individually , let alone together , from one week to the next . |
| 21 | Nobody wo n't come and see me cos I 'm so stupid and I always make mistakes . |
| 22 | Four hours a day in a blazing saddle can leave its mark , but my bottom was fine , the terrain being so rough that we never broke into a trot , let alone a gallop . |
| 23 | She complained bitterly about her husband being so confused and his always forgetting what she had told him without having any insight into her own ability to confuse him and other people . |
| 24 | The waves of protest were so strong that I almost gave up there and then . |
| 25 | It was hard , travelling home in that bus , and surrounded by the immense , evident , and varied liberties of people and land , to believe in the small impossibilities of her own home , and she felt , as she so frequently felt , the will to believe it to be different : the truth was too grotesque and too unnatural , and her hopes were so strong that she carelessly let them wander a little , giving them a little leeway , letting them sniff and pry and explore . |
| 26 | Bankruptcy stared the Nazis in the face , and for a while they were so desperate that they actually considered introducing the zloty as a way of stabilising the currency and restoring calm . |
| 27 | But the directors of the museum at that time were so insensitive that they actually discouraged her generous offer . |
| 28 | The Puritan missionaries thought the heathens did n't deserve to exist and the heathens were so compliant that they duly dwindled towards extinction . |
| 29 | 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 ’ . |
| 30 | We soon reach Hungerford and Rob 's bridge which is so low that he usually gets cramp from bending flat on the boat . |