Example sentences of "to be so [adj] and [adv] " in BNC.

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1 It was ludicrous to be so young and yet a has-been .
2 Shareholders would be unwise to be so trusting and surely have little to lose from the insistence that directors comply with externally monitored rational decision-making procedures .
3 It 's awful how we have to be so aware and always on our guard that we are n't able to live normal lives .
4 It would be useless to pretend that identity of non-meanings , if it is to make sense , ought to be so explicable and then criticise this idea on the grounds that it can not be so explained .
5 He found it was too large to be caused by a gravitational field : if it had been a gravitational red shift , the object would have to be so massive and so near to us that it would disturb the orbits of planets in the Solar System .
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