Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] so [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside London , cities are so small that only Birmingham , Bristol , Exeter , Newcastle , York and Norwich have more than ten thousand residents . |
| 2 | But I was surprised because the songs are so good that even when they 're getting massacred by cats and dogs or Germans or Russians they still stand up . |
| 3 | For every long contract to which it becomes party there is a matching short , for every dispute with a seller ( though disputes are so rare as virtually never to occur ) there will be an equal dispute with a buyer , and for every case of force majeure in delivery there will be an invoicing back from buyer to LCH and from LCH to seller . |
| 4 | With help … ’ and her whispered words were so quiet that only Creggan and Kraal heard them . |
| 5 | The rampant desire she glimpsed in his eyes was so clear and so fierce that she felt her breath catch in her throat . |
| 6 | Among those noting Xu 's habit of using just one board ( ingredients are so fresh and so quickly prepared that food poisoning is not considered a threat ) is Keith Mitchell , team captain of the British chefs competing at the culinary Olympics in Frankfurt next year , and head chef at the Grand Hotel , Eastbourne , East Sussex . |
| 7 | well this people I mean with , with , that I mean that really is more or less the same amount as the other companies have said for er more or less the whole lot , so why the wardrobes are so cheap and yet the , the bed surrounding is so expensive , we do n't know |
| 8 | Why risk the possibility that the invariably expensive instrument may be ‘ not quite what you wanted ’ , and thus face the steep depreciation between brand-new to second-hand common to all custom-built guitars , when modern ‘ copy ’ guitars are so good and so cheap ? |
| 9 | This time I studied it in good sunlight , because some of the colours are so dim or so dark that one can hardly see what the pattern is all about . |
| 10 | Because the eggs are so small and so widespread it is easy for them to be swallowed . |
| 11 | Until recently the fact that the strength of engineering materials is usually only between one and five per cent of the strength of their chemical bonds was of little practical significance because the joints between the various component parts of structures were so inefficient that even the strength which the material had was scarcely used . |
| 12 | The truth was that she would doze now and then — ten minutes here , twenty there ; but her dreams were so vivid and so close to her conscious fears that she might as well have been awake . |
| 13 | In 1936 he wrote " Nowadays the trouble and expense involved in keeping a stud of hawks is so great that only a fortunate few are able to do so . " |
| 14 | Despite the masterpieces they contain , Italy 's museums are so uninviting and so often closed that they have very few visitors : only the Uffizi is over the one million mark ( 1,048,185 ) , with the Accademia in Venice at a mere 183,474 ( compared with the London National Gallery 's four million visitors ) . |
| 15 | By combining this chapter with the last we can see why International Relations is so unsettled and so ready to try very varied approaches . |
| 16 | The green of the spring grass and of the new leaves upon the trees was so intense that even riding through it for hours could not dim John 's sense of wonder . |
| 17 | The quantity of wealth and the range of differences were so great and so new that it was difficult to assimilate it to any picture of how Zuwaya had done things in the past . |
| 18 | There is a very strong link between the list that I have read out and the authorities whose councillors advocated non-payment — Lambeth , for instance , whose councillors were so bad that even the Labour party had to remove them from office . |
| 19 | ‘ Gervase would not ask the way , and the street lamps were so few and far between that it was impossible to use our map . |
| 20 | The Federation was , in any case , the undisputed representative of the Left at the Universities and the Labour Party would have been ill-advised to disaffiliate it while its opinions were so popular and widely accepted . |
| 21 | But I think er the old standards are so good and so strong you know we still get the odd good one coming out but the old ones were so good and so strong that even re-recorded with er even with the more modern I suppose er bit of arrangement still the great sounds from the . |
| 22 | Presidential support scores are so inadequate and so subject to misinterpretation by students and others ( including presidents ! ) that it is time for Congressional Quarterly to consider abandoning them . |
| 23 | In the years immediately following 1945 , however , foreign exchange markets were so disrupted and so strongly under the control of government that the post-war government could establish its own internal programme while relatively insulated from international financial forces . |
| 24 | William Dale claims the honour of being the first to reproduce it accurately in his Tschudi the harpsichord maker of 1913 : previous reproductions were so murky as almost to obliterate the harpsichord . |
| 25 | Her family is described as " infirm " , and this may explain why even with two of her daughters grown women in their twenties the family was able to earn little , although it may also reflect the fact that earning opportunities for women were so poor that even able-bodied spinsters could not wholly maintain themselves . |
| 26 | Planners there began to ask why it was that their residential streets were so dull and so unsafe , and why it was impossible to do anything else there except drive cars , even though most of the time there were no moving cars . |
| 27 | But I think er the old standards are so good and so strong you know we still get the odd good one coming out but the old ones were so good and so strong that even re-recorded with er even with the more modern I suppose er bit of arrangement still the great sounds from the . |
| 28 | Partly this was due to cost , but mainly it was because French cathedrals are so vast and so lofty , with high vaults of great span , that a steeple became too great an engineering hazard . |
| 29 | Floy thought they probably ought to be afraid themselves , because the Tree Spirits were so inHuman and so wild and so clearly filled with strange woodland magic that once they had finished with Balor they might very well turn to the two Renascians . |