Example sentences of "be [verb] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was just saying to Malcolm how surprised I 'd been to see so many your men at Doreen 's funeral , but I shut up when the police arrived . |
| 2 | These facilities make VSAM more similar to database software than most of the file organization techniques that have been examined so far — in fact , many of the database systems available for mini- and micro-computers provide only this multiple index facility . |
| 3 | In the simplified models that have been examined so far , this probability turns out to be high ; that is , the proposed no boundary condition leads to the prediction that it is extremely probable that the present rate of expansion of the universe is almost the same in each direction . |
| 4 | Perhaps it is because the fishermen have been demonstrating so much recently that they have not been catching so much fish . ’ |
| 5 | In the case of regulated agreements , the common law rule has been overturned so that s56(2) of CCA 1974 provides that antecedent negotiations shall be deemed to be conducted by the dealer , " in the capacity of agent of the creditor as well as in his actual capacity " . |
| 6 | The extremities of the cloud are rotating so fast that the cloud would disperse if it were not held together by some force of gravity . |
| 7 | Repayments are calculated so that the total amount paid at each instalment is constant , but the capital and interest proportions vary . |
| 8 | Such technology , coupled to advances such as ‘ embryo sexing ’ and ‘ embryo splitting ’ which are proving so useful in cattle breeding could bring livestock prices down and encourage the adoption of these majestic mammals . |
| 9 | One response to this affront is to erect an alternative system of belief ; to fabricate another , esoteric world of ideas that seems to challenge and in turn to trivialise the ideas that are proving so bothersome . |
| 10 | Being screened in Barcelona five days a week — in Catalan — the old Street shows are proving so popular that Granada are now hoping to sell further programmes to the rest of Spain . |
| 11 | I hope that even at this late stage Labour will support the GPs ' contract , GP fundholding and NHS trust status for hospitals , all of which are proving so successful . |
| 12 | If what has been hypothesised so far is true , much of the variation in linguistic interactions which is not explicable in terms of grammatical or phonological conditioning can be accounted for by changes of footing , involving a switch from one ( linguistic ) persona to another ; some can be accounted for by the speaker 's failure to identify perfectly the speech patterns of the prototypes of the personas which s/he seeks to animate at a particular time ; and some can be accounted for by the speaker 's imperfect ability to reproduce those speech patterns which s/he has identified . |
| 13 | Certainly it is the only Egyptian village I know where the houses are placed so far apart . |
| 14 | Now that the full complement of introns in the ancestral triose phosphate isomerase gene has been mapped , he has been able to show that they are placed so that amino acids near each other in the protein 's structure are encoded wherever possible by the same exon , bolstering the idea that the original form of the gene contained a full complement of introns and was produced by exon shuffling . |
| 15 | If the stimulation conditions are altered so that a red coloured area is presented , illuminated by red , green , and blue light , that area will look strongly red to the observer but the cell wo n't fire ! |
| 16 | Returning to Fig. 6.2 for a moment , whenever the parameters are altered so that one of the solid lines ( representing homoclinic orbits to the origin ) is crossed , there will be a bifurcation similar to that described above . |
| 17 | Rates are altered so that the new price reflects the desired new rate of interest . |
| 18 | I just wish now to say I declare the Exhibition open and to say how pleased I am to see so many old friends here today . |
| 19 | If there is one lesson to emerge from consideration of the changing balance of dependence and independence in old age , it is the flexibility and adaptability for which old people are given so little credit . |
| 20 | Future generations are likely to deplore the way current societies are allowing so much of their heritage to be destroyed without record . |
| 21 | Infas said 10pc of West Germans and 4pc in the formerly Communist East agreed wholeheartedly with the statement : ‘ It is the Jews ’ own fault that they have been persecuted so often in their history . ’ |
| 22 | No wonder women are treated so badly in the world when even an organisation such as Amnesty judges them in terms of their lives only meaning something if they can ‘ belong ’ to a man . |
| 23 | Of course , even within the stated parameters , comprehensiveness is an impossible goal , because some publications escape the net , or are listed so late that they have gone out of print or are out-of-date by the time they appear . |
| 24 | Women 's experiences are marginalised so that their unemployment is not considered a problem or worthy of comprehensive social policy responses . |
| 25 | I 'm expecting like a lights or something are flashing so I got the off the jet wash and I 'd just about got to the where I started again it 's gone bib bib bib bib bib is that it ? |
| 26 | This powerful technique has been limited so far to molecules that can be excited by CO 2 lasers , which have limited tunability . |
| 27 | You know they they 're a lot of the older men makes you wonder have they been sacked so they do n't have to pay them hand shakes at the end you know if they wanted to lay some people off . |
| 28 | Plainly , there was no such feature in the building prior to its conversion , but its insertion has been undertaken so carefully and with such sensitivity towards the simple , almost primitive shapes and textures of the original interior that it looks like a perfectly natural element . |
| 29 | I doubt such a venture could have been undertaken so rapidly elsewhere . |
| 30 | It would not be practical to attempt to list all the fund raising activities that have been undertaken so far this year but I would like to pick out some highlights for you . |