Example sentences of "[be] [adv] so [adj] and [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | They are both so likeable and even though they are of different races and sex . |
| 5 | If you are up so bright and early we will be able to set off in very good time . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I wish my sight were not so powerful and so cunning … . |
| 7 | ‘ She and Elizabeth , they were just so talented and so go-getting . |
| 8 | It was as if a light had been extinguished ; the colours which were once so bright and clear had grown blurred and faded . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Although Georgian architecture is now so popular and so familiar , its introduction must have shocked some people at the time . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |