Example sentences of "[be] so [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am so busy eating New Year Dinner that I ca n't write much . |
| 2 | Of course , you may have one of the new stacking systems that are so confident vinyl will not figure in your life that they neglect to include a phono point to plug in a turntable . |
| 3 | Nonetheless it fits in beautifully with the black and white timber-framed houses and cottages which are so much part of the county . |
| 4 | Deer are so much part of our hill heritage it is worth knowing a little about them . |
| 5 | And of course nowadays there 's so much er things that er we use , there are so much labour saving things now that which makes a big difference . |
| 6 | The new bosses are so lower class , so uncouth , such vulgarians — ’ Davide would put a finger across his lips , but without emphasis , for he loved to hear her anger , it healed his own affliction , the binding fatigue which came over him when he contemplated his work , and made his legs drag across the shiny floors in the clanging corridors of the new Law Courts , Town Hall and Police Headquarters in booming Riba , concrete inside , dead white marble outside , sprouting confident towers of glass and statuary of muscular naked giants , Order clubbing Chaos , Force cracking Cowardice 's skull underfoot . |
| 7 | It took him all day to find addresses and write the envelopes , as there are so many agony aunts in national newspapers , teenage and women 's magazines . |
| 8 | Perhaps because there are so many bell towers in England ( 5,205 , compared with 167 in Wales and 15 in Scotland ) , not to mention about 40,000 ringers , bell-ringing is a peculiarly English institution . |
| 9 | And you ca n't do anything about it , because there are so few security firms ; they have a monopoly and they do n't give a shit . ’ |
| 10 | There are so few hospital beds available that health authorities plan to set up emergency treatment centres in football stadiums . |
| 11 | If the Manic Street Preachers are so Jonathan-Kinging radical why do n't they go round Channel 4 and kick Terry Christian 's smug , ugly , homophobic face in and then cut Amanda De Torybimbo 's Barbie-doll head off with a rusty cake slice ? |
| 12 | But in smaller leks the favourite residents are so busy mating that their satellites succeed in attracting waiting females and mate with them . |
| 13 | Tim Mackie has explained to me that the organisation has been so successful gathering together items of rolling stock , track and equipment that there are not enough members available to operate trains and work on the infrastructure at the same time . |
| 14 | World Bank officials have no pat answers for why there has been so little trickle-down in Thailand . |
| 15 | Because there has been so little change in British industrial and fiscal policies in a changing world , the emerging nations are overtaking us , gaining access to our markets at home and abroad . |
| 16 | Given the current arrangements in primary and secondary care , it is hardly surprising that there has been so little assessment of efficiency to date . |
| 17 | Part of the reason there has been so little bloodshed is that nobody yet is certain who killed Mr Gandhi or why . |
| 18 | WHY HAS THERE BEEN SO LITTLE COMMUNITY BENEFIT ? |
| 19 | To my mum , you know she 's passed , you 're daft , but there 'd have been so much hassle for me to get there ! |
| 20 | Indeed , it is precisely because there has been approximately equal progress on both sides that there has been so much progress in the level of sophistication of design . |
| 21 | ‘ There has been so much despair among the lot of us that seeing the party back in government again seemed so remote . |
| 22 | There has been so much mourning to do . |
| 23 | This brain drain' must have been viewed by the authorities as acute , otherwise there would not have been so much coverage of the issue in the media . |
| 24 | And there had been so much coverage , a retrial would have been impossible . |
| 25 | It is not perhaps since Romanticism that there has been so much discussion , and underlying uncertainty , about the market of literature , and it is no accident that recent years have seen an expansion of the sociology of literature as an academic discipline , alongside increased research into reading habits , the best-seller and how to write it , and the levels of writing that appeal to different strata of the public . |
| 26 | Never before has there been so much concern with health or so much fear about health . |
| 27 | Her fine words had been so much whistling in the dark . |
| 28 | My few months of married life with Helen had been so much lotus eating . |
| 29 | Setting off for home on the bus has never been so much fun for the children of Grange Junior School in Swindon . |
| 30 | There may have been so much conflict indoors that you had to construct your shelter elsewhere . |