Example sentences of "[noun pl] are so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Notes are so often hard to understand , even for the person who wrote them , and yet they should be the most transparently clear of all means of communication . |
| 2 | ‘ The most blameworthy acts are so often absolved by success that the boundary between what is permitted and what is prohibited , what is just and what is unjust , has nothing fixed about it , but seems susceptible to almost arbitrary change by individuals . ’ |
| 3 | There is no better way of establishing the sea than by being lunged and it is a great pity that beginner riders are so frequently taught by the most junior members of staff . |
| 4 | The belief that different treatment methods are needed for and tried on different populations of sufferers does not stand up to critical examination : the stories of those in recovery from addictive disease through the Anonymous Fellowships are so immensely varied that it is quite clear that this population has not been selected in any way . |
| 5 | Their word-recognition skills are so finely developed that they may take insufficient notice of orthography while reading , and so develop poor memories of how words are constructed when it comes to spelling them . |
| 6 | The President of the United States has to press one button , the man on the spot another : the radio frequencies are so wildly different that the chances of anyone happening on the right combination are billions to one . ’ |
| 7 | For , in reality , the research and teaching activities are so closely interwoven that they are inseparable . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , Mummy says clergymen are so frightfully parochial . |
| 9 | They 've got two fire stations , but all the houses are so far away they never get there in time . |
| 10 | As the creation of space is the primary concern , it is not surprising the interests of developers and of the well-being of cities are so often in conflict . |
| 11 | It would seem to be patently unfair to dismiss a driver with a perfect record prior to a momentary lapse which results in a court imposing a penalty , simply because the works ' rules are so rigidly drawn that the employer is deprived of exercising a discretion . |
| 12 | One of the great mysteries of our modern free-trading world is why consumer electronics products are so much more expensive in Britain ( and Europe generally ) than they are in the United States . |
| 13 | Her ears are so finely tuned to this that she can pick out a prospective mate 's voice from a cacophony of croaks . |
| 14 | The first is that despite what was said earlier about the unique nature of art-objects , the stance of being suggests why the arts are so frequently associated with the human , and are therefore regarded as central to the ‘ humanities ’ . |
| 15 | To your numerous enquiries , I must answer rather briefly , for I have so bad a cold as to be half blind : add to which so bad a cough & sore throat , that if they do nt go I shall be in town much sooner than I expected … my eyes are so sadly worse , that no bird under an Ostrich shall I soon be able to do . |
| 16 | Only I know what lies beneath the courgette plant , whose yellow trumpets are so curiously attractive to bluebottles . |
| 17 | In two-party systems with plurality voting rules which protect established parties from new entrants , and where the major parties are so internally democratic that party elites must satisfy the ‘ extreme ’ preferences of their activists , party manifestos can easily become ‘ over-polarized ’ compared with most voters ' views ( Finer , 1980 ) . |
| 18 | Where tax-free reserves are so closely linked to capital investment , the small firm finds a greater proportion of profits subject to tax and may therefore be subject to a higher marginal rate of taxation . |
| 19 | But these computers are so far untested . |
| 20 | In certain families of butterflies the fore legs are so much reduced that there are only two pairs of functional legs . |
| 21 | The problem is that our managerial hierarchies are so badly designed as to defeat the best efforts even of psychologically insightful individuals . |
| 22 | Oh God the shops are so far away now . |
| 23 | Nature displayed in this form beats abstract art hands down ; the pictures are so breathtakingly beautiful that one can wallow in them for hours and quite forget geology . |
| 24 | Although opportunities are so obviously different from problems there is a style of management thinking which equates the two by broadening the definition of a " problem " to include anything you might want to achieve . |
| 25 | Since styles are so attractively brief there is an understandable temptation to think of all behaviour at a styles-level of description . |
| 26 | ‘ The gentlemen are so very single-minded at this season . |
| 27 | First of all , it is not obvious to me that the speech strategies needed for typically male and female roles are so totally different and non-overlapping as is often implied . |
| 28 | Yet can we really take it for granted that parents are so utterly changeless in their behaviour and attitudes to their children ? |
| 29 | In Davos and St Moritz , the areas are so widely spread and rewarding individually that the idea of linking them scarcely arises . |
| 30 | ( Lawrence , it is true , envisaged the England he was relinquishing very largely in the image of Garsington Manor ; but then , Lawrence 's origins are so impeccably proletarian that the aberration can be overlooked ! ) |