Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] be so [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | HISTORICAL monuments are so badly signposted that many visitors are unaware of their existence , the Scottish Tourist Board 's chief executive , Tom Band , told a tourism conference yesterday , writes Alison Daniels . |
| 2 | Scottish villages were so frequently attacked and burned , and were so lacking in adequate fortified protection , that farmers and small gentry could survive only by building stone tower houses with barmkins , or walled enclosures . |
| 3 | In certain families of butterflies the fore legs are so much reduced that there are only two pairs of functional legs . |
| 4 | Second , if psychotic traits are so widely distributed — and apparently perfectly compatible with mental health — how can they also be associated with such disintegrative states as schizophrenia ? |
| 5 | People who as babies were handled with love and delight , whose perfect little bodies were so much admired , and who did not acquire ‘ hang-ups ’ from later unfortunate experiences , do not seem to have problems with sexual intercourse . |
| 6 | Wonderful as many of them are , it should still be more widely stressed by doctors that the health of human beings is so often determined by their behaviour , their food and the nature of their environment . |
| 7 | What has pleased me is the way in which the living material of Rural Studies is so avidly used in Art nowadays , not just in primary schools , but in secondary schools , too . |
| 8 | Settlement had also occurred elsewhere , and the Foreign and Colonial Offices were so badly weakened by alterations and were so inconvenient that an entirely new building would be the only way to provide suitable accommodation . |
| 9 | This inferiority problem is shared with most film cultures , but the British felt it particularly hard because the two nations ' cultural and economic histories were so closely entwined . |
| 10 | The problem is that our managerial hierarchies are so badly designed as to defeat the best efforts even of psychologically insightful individuals . |
| 11 | Available goods are so highly priced as to be out of reach for people on average incomes . |
| 12 | In all industrialised nations such strained relationships are no more publicly evident than in the regular conflicts between workforce and management , where poor industrial relations are so often manifested in disputes and-strikes . |
| 13 | As you might expect from such headlong cross-breeding and hybridizing in the incessant search for something different and new , the various types are so widely stretched that the edges tend to run into each other and merge , and the dividing line becomes ever more difficult to discern . |
| 14 | Is the Secretary of State aware that any measures taken to increase car security will be welcome in Northern Ireland , where stolen vehicles are so often used in terrorist murders and other such crimes ? |
| 15 | It is not clear why the motives of the White Paper of 1943 , the intentions of the inspectorate and the hopes of educational reformers were so little heeded in the specific detail of selection . |
| 16 | An underlying reluctance to accept change or try out new activities is so well hidden and overcome that she is extremely optimistic and positive when taking decisions and initiating projects . |
| 17 | Where tax-free reserves are so closely linked to capital investment , the small firm finds a greater proportion of profits subject to tax and may therefore be subject to a higher marginal rate of taxation . |
| 18 | Not all religious sites were so openly associated with water , however , despite its popularity in Celtic theology , but caution is necessary when trying to identify religion as the primary function for a settlement 's foundation and continued existence , as so many small towns possessed at least one temple . |
| 19 | The other barges were so deeply encrusted with marine life that it was difficult to strike wood . |
| 20 | Pollution and the removal of riverside hedges have played their part ; but above all , dredging and drainage have ironed out the varied bed conditions of gravel and silt to which the larvae of these and many other insects were so minutely adapted . |
| 21 | Only 10,000 of the necessary terminals are so far installed in shops , though the target is 20,000 by the New Year and 100,000 by the end of next year . |
| 22 | The probable reason that indexed sequential files are so often used when direct files would perform better is the ready availability of software . |
| 23 | Although supporting evidence from other departments is so far lacking , there is at least prima facie ground for saying that the intrusion of laymen into the bureaucracy brought about the conversion of offices into a form of life property . |
| 24 | HOW CAN top policewoman Alison Halford get a huge pay-out while the other services are so badly treated . |
| 25 | The belief that different treatment methods are needed for and tried on different populations of sufferers does not stand up to critical examination : the stories of those in recovery from addictive disease through the Anonymous Fellowships are so immensely varied that it is quite clear that this population has not been selected in any way . |
| 26 | ‘ The most blameworthy acts are so often absolved by success that the boundary between what is permitted and what is prohibited , what is just and what is unjust , has nothing fixed about it , but seems susceptible to almost arbitrary change by individuals . ’ |
| 27 | Their word-recognition skills are so finely developed that they may take insufficient notice of orthography while reading , and so develop poor memories of how words are constructed when it comes to spelling them . |
| 28 | However Sharda had a close friend who was West Indian and she had discussed with her the reasons why Asian girls were so frequently attacked and bullied : |
| 29 | As a personnel manager in a Bradford mill put it ‘ Asian ladies are so well behaved . |
| 30 | Few senior ministers are so little known outside Westminster and the City . |