Example sentences of "[noun sg] be so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why has the rate of council house provision been so much lower in rural areas ? |
| 2 | For people of my generation , children of the sixties , sex and freedom are so inextricably connected that it is difficult for us to accept that someone can be totally uninhibited in bed and still have a Reader 's Digest mentality . |
| 3 | " What makes the history of England so eminently valuable , " wrote T. H. Buckle , " is that nowhere else has the national progress been so little interfered with , either for good or evil . " |
| 4 | Of the airframes , the bulk of the NAC are so well documented that they need not be spotlighted here . |
| 5 | We do have to be a little careful now of the evidence which Mead cited in support of her claim that both gender and adolescence are so culturally varied that they simply can not be biologically determined . |
| 6 | Why is this , when the arguments against smoking are so widely known ? |
| 7 | The Wandjina images and the cult of the Rainbow Serpent are so closely aligned to Indian serpent worship that the probability of cultural interchange in some remote age is no longer a vague theory . |
| 8 | At best it would delay the arrival of that strong and vital recovery on which Treasury calculations on government spending and revenue are so delicately balanced . |
| 9 | Some of these can be attributed to the subject matter for study itself ( ‘ the objects of study are so utterly different that they require fundamentally different methods and forms of explanation and understanding ’ Benton 1977 : 12 ) . |
| 10 | The major difficulty with The Confidential Clerk , however , is that its techniques of stage action are so thoroughly and obviously conventional that anything Eliot cares to place within them is diminished . |
| 11 | The Guardian 's cartoonist showed one health official saying to another : ‘ These regional days of action are so badly organized that Len Murray has to ring up Norman Fowler to ask where they are being held . ’ |
| 12 | Why has the Reagan administration been so unusually quiet about drug trafficking from Latin America in recent months ? |
| 13 | Once more , such a situation is not necessarily incestuous but since love and sexual partnership are so often a matter of emotional dependence it is often hard to differentiate it from a quasi-marital partnership . |
| 14 | The rivals lying on their side were so much better , in the short term , at hugging the bottom . |
| 15 | Dimly , in what seemed at that moment to have been another existence altogether , she remembered Jurgen and Horst arguing that there was actually something dynamic and hopeful about the forces of good and innocence being so demonstrably at risk from the satanic . |
| 16 | Lizaveta once mended his clothes : when we puzzle over the chance-induced actuality of her murder being so largely left to speak for itself we are creating a false problem by the inertness of our own metaphor . |
| 17 | The even strength of his fingers and his robust eloquence ( James Huneker would never have found the Scherzo from the B minor Sonata ‘ as light as a harebell ’ after this ! ) and assurance are often awe-inspiring ; few young pianists have found a more direct path to musical truth , or heeded Jorge Bolet 's adage that speed is so often the enemy of excitement . |
| 18 | When the losses are recognized for what they are then the healing of the pain can begin , but so often the loss is so deeply buried in people 's minds that it can take a long while for it to come to the surface again . |
| 19 | One wonders that murder is so seldom done . |
| 20 | A Santa Monica health club is so far the only place where Americans can switch E for O. In Hungary , however , such matters are more of an imperative than a luxury ; over 10 per cent of the country 's deaths are pollution-related . |
| 21 | The Bloods/Crips programme is so infinitely the best scheme for recovering LA thus far offered that I append it here in its vivacious entirety . |
| 22 | In Bharatpur , the competition between Rajiv Gandhi 's ruling Congress ( I ) party and the assorted forces of the anti-Congress opposition is so finely poised , and the pool of royal admirers so deep , that three prominent relatives of Maharajah Brijendra Singh have slipped into a democratic version of an old autocratic vice : the royal family feud . |
| 23 | It 's a great guitar for doing that , because the neck is so even ; it 's so solid from the nut to the bridge . ’ |
| 24 | It is this cause and effect relationship that has become quite lost in respect of ionic strength , precisely because the correlation at low concentration is so seductively good . |
| 25 | Tedious though this point may be , it is particularly in need of emphasis today , when the value of research is so often judged only by expected and short-term practical applications . |
| 26 | The finding in this study that gastrin mediated acid secretion is so appreciably increased ( sixfold ) in duodenal ulcer patients compared with true normal subjects ( H pylori negative healthy volunteers ) implies that it is likely to be the key factor in the pathophysiology of duodenal ulcer disease . |
| 27 | The sufferer from alcoholism is so frequently involved in traffic offences that it has been said that just two drink-driving offences are a strong indication of alcoholism . |
| 28 | The snow is so deep — three metres outside the door here — that after big storms , potentially dangerous ski areas remain inaccessible for a few days . |
| 29 | Yet I know of no picture in which the mid-day heat of Midsummer is so admirably expressed ; and were not the eye refreshed by the shade thrown over a great part of the foreground by some young trees , that border the road , and the cool blue of water near it , one would wish , in looking at it , for a parasol , as Fuseli wished for an umbrella when standing before one of Constable 's showers . |
| 30 | To take the initiative yourself , however is often too difficult : your mind may have convinced you that your confusion is so much greater than other people 's , your backlog of work so much longer , your reputation so much lower , that to open yourself to the social confirmation of these frightful facts would be a pointless and self-sacrificing thing to do . |