Example sentences of "[be] [adv] so [adj] [coord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , decisions are rarely so rational or even conscious . |
| 2 | The ‘ implications ’ of literacy are not so obvious nor so easily elicited or described as Goody suggests . |
| 3 | The effector processes become slower and less powerful but these effects are not so marked or so consistent . |
| 4 | Yeah you see , well when we were looking you see so many and you think ooh that looks nice , ooh that 's nice but some of them are just so squadgy and well nice if you , if that 's how you want to sit |
| 5 | It will be good , it will be an achievement , they must learn to live together , they 've got to , and they can , they can already , they 're both so wonderful and so intelligent and they like and respect each other very much , that 's absolutely clear . |
| 6 | If we 're really so bad and so thick that we 'd actually use all those wonderful H-bombs and Neutron bombs on each other , then maybe it 's just as well we do wipe ourselves out before we can get into space and start doing horrible things to other races . ’ |
| 7 | They are both so likeable and even though they are of different races and sex . |
| 8 | If you are up so bright and early we will be able to set off in very good time . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I wish my sight were not so powerful and so cunning … . |
| 10 | ‘ She and Elizabeth , they were just so talented and so go-getting . |
| 11 | It was as if a light had been extinguished ; the colours which were once so bright and clear had grown blurred and faded . |
| 12 | But Mr and Mrs Wormwood were both so gormless and so wrapped up in their own silly little lives that they failed to notice anything unusual about their daughter . |
| 13 | If the behaviour patterns of the good citizen as delineated by Home Office ministers were both so lacking and so necessary to cultivate as they suggested , the schools ' function in laying the essential foundations was transparently obvious . |
| 14 | There were weaknesses — batteries were neither so good nor so light as they are today and in any case this was the first step . |
| 15 | Many of Morse 's ideas were either so strange or so wildly improbable that most of them were always doomed to early disappointment . |
| 16 | Already in November 1941 , the SD was reporting ‘ disappointment that the final smashing of Bolshevism is not taking place as rapidly as hoped and that no end of the eastern campaign is in sight ’ , a dampening of optimism at the news of the first falls of snow and the feeling that further advancement might be extremely difficult , puzzlement at the failure to advance further when the Russian troops were allegedly so poor and so badly equipped , concern at the reports of continued tough resistance of the Soviet army , and pessimism that ‘ the way to the Urals was still a long one , and the partisan war could still last a good while ’ . |
| 17 | Most of the game is mental — being able to keep your head clear and retain a certain outlook on life should mean that bad times are neither so frequent nor so lengthy as they would be if you start examining your technique or doubting your ability . |
| 18 | A mass of evidence follows , most of it from sound medical sources , that the medical profession has become hopelessly hooked on prescription drugs ; that the drugs are neither so effective nor so safe as our doctors would have us believe ; and that the public and the profession is being remorselessly taken for a ride by the pharmaceutical industry . |
| 19 | In case ( c ) the law is not so clear and frequently other factors are present out of which a consideration for the promise can be manufactured . |
| 20 | Pupil leakage is n't about those puddles occasionally found under infant children it 's about losing children to neighbours — it 's not so wet but equally unpleasant . |
| 21 | Although Georgian architecture is now so popular and so familiar , its introduction must have shocked some people at the time . |
| 22 | Barbs is n't so old or so smelly , but she reminds me of him . ’ |
| 23 | Nowadays in Kenya nobody is quite so happy or so optimistic about the NPA , for though it survives in urban schools its extension proved to be full of problems . |
| 24 | Of course , the mortgage market today is neither so generous nor so vague . |
| 25 | In these , convergence to the competitive equilibrium is neither so swift nor so automatic ; for example , bubbles and crashes are observed ( see the chapter by Sunder in Kagel and Roth ( 1992 ) ) . |
| 26 | In his Golden Bough Sir James Frazer had difficulty in making up his mind between the two rival theories of the fire-cults and fire-festivals which are found intimately connected with the agricultural year throughout those parts of the world where the sun is neither so bright nor so constant as in the cloudless skies of Egypt . |
| 27 | He leaned his forehead against the stone , and was suddenly so weary and so content that it seemed to him there was nothing left to be desired in life , and nothing more he need strive for . |
| 28 | But she was just so bubbly and so vivacious , and she looked so young despite being well over eighteen , that there was something almost right for her in the part . |
| 29 | My next trip was not so pleasant but nonetheless enlightening , It was with a scratch crew and an experienced navigator who , like myself , had returned to ops after a period in the training world , but also ( like myself ) utterly clueless about present day operations . |
| 30 | The rally I went to in Leicester in 1987 was neither so gross nor so damaging , but as a reasonably sympathetic onlooker , I was irritated by the frantic urgency and the artificial and inflated mood of tension , good for nobody 's judgment . |