Example sentences of "[be] so [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found this section , number three , of particular interest because surely it 's dealing with the very kernel of our relationship to what we call in language that ought to be so real and preserved from romanticism , the body of Christ membership limbhood branchship , whatever you want to call it , if whether you take your figure from John fifteen or from the Apostle . |
| 2 | How can they be so certain that their judgements are fair and just ? |
| 3 | Moreover , most of us seem to be so certain that a first edition is really a first edition . |
| 4 | The Anglican Henry Dannett provided a further fall-back epistemological basis for vindicating antislavery perceptions of the moral order by arguing that even ‘ if scriptural decisions should appear to contradict our ideas of right and wrong we are still bound to follow those ideas because we can not be so certain that we rightly understand and justly limit those scriptural decisions as we are of our own ideas of right and wrong ’ . |
| 5 | But how could she be so certain that her intention would be transparent to me , and how did I understand her meaning so accurately ? |
| 6 | But how could she be so certain that her intention would be transparent to me , and how did I understand her meaning so accurately ? |
| 7 | I did n't know a lad could be so black and blue … . |
| 8 | The Americans used to be so arrogant that they refused even to allow the Panamanian flag to fly . |
| 9 | How can anyone be so arrogant as to talk about this Creature , this Thing , as if they knew It , as if they had just had a letter from It or had chatted to It over the phone , when the It can not be conceived , understood , described , or even proved to exist . |
| 10 | Morrissey should not be so arrogant as to think that he can , expecting no recrimination or criticism , use racist imagery without anything but the most ambiguous of reasons . |
| 11 | How can we be so arrogant as to say ‘ do as I do ? ’ |
| 12 | Well I would , I would , I would just comment that there er in profits have er have it does n't mean to say that we wo n't have some profits from our estate at Thurrock because there are other areas of land involved , but they wo n't be so substantial and for B-Sky-B I would turn to Frank . |
| 13 | Yet you can be so warm and gentle . ’ |
| 14 | How can the Prime Minister be so complacent and so indolent when he is receiving advice that something now needs to be done ? |
| 15 | This is a difficult question that will be examined more fully later ; for the present I will answer it ( rather unsatisfactorily ) by saying that it is unusual for a syllable said on a level pitch to be so prominent that it would be described as carrying a level tone . |
| 16 | This is used because Saint Francis was supposed to be so gentle that he could actually speak to the birds . |
| 17 | Some will be so distant or insignificant that whether one believes them or their opposite would have no effect on what one believes here . |
| 18 | As you come within two months of the examination period you should try to answer a complete past examination paper under your simulated conditions , which , by now , should be so familiar that all trace of tenseness and nervousness will have vanished . |
| 19 | In fact many women said it was kinder to cry than to be angry because , they claimed , if they said what they were really thinking their husbands would be so incredulous and so humiliated that the marriage would not survive . |
| 20 | The manner in which death came to men , including those innocent of any offence , could be so appalling that the final stroke could only be regarded as a merciful relief . |
| 21 | But can we be so confident that it can be stopped ? |
| 22 | I used to do all sorts of other jobs to keep going — I used to be so confident that work was round the corner that when I became a cellarman in a wine shop , I said to my family , ‘ Of course , I 'll only be here for a week or two , you know , ’ and a year later I was still there . |
| 23 | Amazing how someone can appear to be so confident and clear-headed on the outside , while — Moira is an excellent nurse , quite capable of hiding her real self when she needs to . |
| 24 | The problem may not be so much that when we talk of God we say nothing , as that we say too much — we say things that seem to combine irreconcilable images that can never be focussed upon one ‘ being ’ . |
| 25 | If one had a particle with an energy above what is called the Planck energy , ten million million million GeV ( 1 followed by nineteen zeros ) , its mass would be so concentrated that it would cut itself off from the rest of the universe and form a little black hole . |
| 26 | ‘ There was also a trail of water on the floor , but would an assassin be so clumsy as to leave that ? ’ |
| 27 | Product names therefore should not be so specific as to exclude wider use where appropriate . |
| 28 | Budgets should set expenditure for principal areas of expense and may with advantage be so specific as to set amounts for individual chemical products and equipment . |
| 29 | He also loves ‘ words which go beyond words ’ — the poetry of Baudelaire , Rimbaud , Novalis , Keats — for he feels that no human language could ever be so rich as to express perfectly all that he feels . |
| 30 | But they would not be so rich if they were not adept at minimising tax and maximising profits . |