Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] so [adj] and [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carrie felt impatient with her — no grown-up should be so weak and so silly — but she was sorry as well . |
| 2 | Who could be so abominable and so foul and so devoid of proper awe that he might heave and push and grunt and pant above her parted legs ? |
| 3 | ‘ Who could be so abominable and so foul and so devoid of proper awe that he might heave and push and grunt and pant above her parted legs ? ’ |
| 4 | You would be so shocked and so disgusted that whatever faint chance of your return is left would disappear for ever . |
| 5 | In fact many women said it was kinder to cry than to be angry because , they claimed , if they said what they were really thinking their husbands would be so incredulous and so humiliated that the marriage would not survive . |
| 6 | Who would be so abominable and so foul and so devoid of proper awe that he might heave and push and grunt and pant above her parted legs ? — ’ |
| 7 | In my part of the world , which is north east England and especially County Durham , nobody much really believes all this talk about an industrial and economic recovery which will be so strong and so widespread that most people will be back in the sort of jobs they used to have , providing they get the necessary training . |
| 8 | Paradoxically , one of the biggest , says Thomas Davenport , a management consultant with Ernst & Young and one of the earliest advocates of re-engineering , is a company 's existing computer system , which can be so complex and yet so central to the firm 's business that it is too expensive and too risky to scrap entirely ( though not always — see box ) . |
| 9 | Strange how they can be so strange and then , quite suddenly , so normal . |