Example sentences of "[be] so [adv] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since styles are so attractively brief there is an understandable temptation to think of all behaviour at a styles-level of description . |
| 2 | Helena , 24 , who owns a one-bedroom flat in Frome , Somerset , said : ‘ I ca n't believe Lloyds are so incredibly mean . |
| 3 | This argument carries particular political significance in a society in which the divisions between Catholics and Protestants are so obviously manifest in differential unemployment rates . |
| 4 | Rose 's tact was so masterful that she resembled certain people who are so deeply read that they can play with all ideas without ever listing books . |
| 5 | First , the arguments for and against are so soporifically dull that no one will ever stay interested long enough to sort the question out . |
| 6 | But this time that feeling of being overpowered , which , in the past , she had been so helplessly prey to , was itself overcome by raw indignation . |
| 7 | Would Merymose , who had been so badly let down by Akhenaten himself , be able to feel any sympathy at all ? |
| 8 | He told her he 'd been married once , long ago , but had been so bitterly hurt that , although he loved women , could n't live without them , he had never been prepared to trust his life to one ever again . |
| 9 | She had been so terrifically busy lately that she had scarcely had time to go near the beach , except for odd moments snatched while she was shopping . |
| 10 | it was really tasty , but I 've been So when do you go to see the nurse then ? |
| 11 | so what happened to all this Yeltsin thing right , has has it been so much build up , speculation of the West , you say thirty years of build up on our part is being wasted , we 've really got nothing to fear of the Russians ? |
| 12 | 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 ? ’ |
| 13 | It was something about the times that drugs should be so easily come by . |
| 14 | So I 've got me jeans on and the first word I says to him is so why have you shaved your moustache off Dave ? |
| 15 | He stood and watched for a while but everything connected with seamanship is so majestically slow that he began to feel guilty of time wasting while the little vessel was still being manoeuvred through the gap . |
| 16 | But this turnover is so extraordinarily slow that each grain could only have been exposed during the last 4600 Ma for a total time much less than a million years thus requiring considerably higher cosmic-ray intensities in the past , which though possible is thought by several scientists to be unlikely . |
| 17 | Power is so seductively close that it is easy to forget that in British politics the winner takes all , or to believe that this time it all will come right and they can themselves grasp power without conceding any . |
| 18 | There 's so little work around so it 's marvellous if you can generate it yourself . ’ |
| 19 | But by then she was so inwardly tense at the deception which through love and loyalty she had to perform that she barely noticed the grand buildings as she drove up out of the valley to where the town ended and a tarmacked road through woodland began . |
| 20 | This , too , was so frequently overrun that by AD 143 it was decided to attempt another defence further north , across the narrower neck of land between Forth and Clyde . |
| 21 | It was so beautifully cut that Joanna gasped in admiration . |