Example sentences of "[prep] be so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Extract from a letter received from a disabled resident at Sussexdown ‘ It really is a privilege to be in such a lovely place , and to be so well cared for , there ca n't , I 'm sure , be another Home like it in the whole of Britain . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ They thanked me very much and said how pleased they were to be so well looked after , then they kicked us in the appropriate part of the anatomy . ’ |
| 3 | He felt a childish satisfaction in having that advantage on one who had claimed to be so well informed on such matters . |
| 4 | Lucky child , to be so well cared for while others suffer so much ! |
| 5 | Blanche pretends to be so well brought up that she can not go in . |
| 6 | Yet neither the Foreign Office nor No10 wished the impotency of Parliament to be so well advertised . |
| 7 | It is particularly unpleasant to us to be so frequently separated , but of course my going with him is out of the question ; he will sleep under a tent all the time . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ If you 're determined to be so pigheadedly stubborn and blind to the truth , so be it . ’ |
| 9 | For as long as the sun rises over those rugged , evergreen hills to the east and the island 's wines continue to be so subtly perfumed , I shall never understand why Napoleon chose to leave Elba . |
| 10 | But to be so near , and then to fail ! |
| 11 | Flanner is rather sparing about details of Picasso 's personal life , knowing it to be so extensively documented . |
| 12 | This proved to be so commercially successful that it became a reciprocal arrangement , with Mills and Boon importing Harlequin titles . |
| 13 | Does n't it strike you that sometimes it might be nice not to be so emotionally mean — to get involved , without reckoning up what the price is going to be ? ’ |
| 14 | Also you have to be so narrowly motivated and self-contained if you 're going to succeed … |
| 15 | ‘ Respiratory failure at 11.30 p.m. ’ she said ( why did women have to be so scrupulously exact as to detail ? ) ‘ and before that he could n't swallow . |
| 16 | To make a compression fitting , the pipe is prepared in the same way as for a capillary fitting , though it does n't have to be so scrupulously clean . |
| 17 | ‘ There 's no need to be so schoolgirlishly polite . ’ |
| 18 | In Protestant countries the morality of sexual restraint and fidelity was supposed to be binding on both sexes , but the very fact that it was felt to be so even by those who broke it , led them not so much into hypocrisy as into personal torment . |
| 19 | ( One campus I knew of in a large industrial city used to be so strictly guarded that the students referred to it as the town 's ‘ second prison ’ . ) |
| 20 | But there are other causes of bad conditions as well as overcrowding : many prisons are old and decaying , and the newer prisons have often turned out to be so badly designed that they are not a noticeable improvement . |
| 21 | She might well have done so ; it was , after all , a Catholic Scotland which was to be so closely allied with France . |
| 22 | In years to come Karelius was often to reflect that this was the first time he had heard mention of the man whose destiny was to be so closely entwined with his own . |
| 23 | But pouring fertilizers on to the fields does not help the situation , for the processes of nature are too complex to be so simply overridden or adjusted . |
| 24 | It was quite unheard of for the White House to be so intimately involved in the appointment process so far down the administrative hierarchy . |
| 25 | None of those who sniped at his film career were ever to be so lasciviously tempted . |
| 26 | His mind was too surprising , as Orwell 's was , to be so easily labelled . |
| 27 | Although the right to strike had been established , some of the judges were not to be so easily defeated . |
| 28 | Léonie thought men were stupid to be so easily taken in . |
| 29 | I feel sure many of your readers will have been annoyed by the way your reporter allowed our accurate and detailed evidence to the Welsh Affairs Committee on the way some planning committees have violated planning policies over recent years , to be so easily dismissed by the chairman of one of the guilty district councils . |
| 30 | Did you truly believe , it seemed to say , that I was to be so easily pinned down ? |