Example sentences of "[adv] [be] so [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government 's own Department of Development Aid has apparently been so devious that the judge investigating the billions of Rand evidently missing or misappropriated , which should have gone towards assisting the poorer ( black ) communities , has thrown in the towel when faced by the department 's shambolic accounting . |
| 2 | The Standards and Guidance Committee is satisfied that the professions listed below are so regulated as to make it appropriate for solicitors to enter into MNPs with members of those professions , and for members of those professions to be officers of recognised bodies , in accordance with Schedule 14 paragraph 2(2) of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 . |
| 3 | It had all been so flimsy that Pascoe had hesitated about presenting it to Dalziel . |
| 4 | The monitors alone are so loud that I am baffled as to how the crew operate without some type of semaphore system . |
| 5 | Other people are hoping that the standards that can be set for the 7 , 11 and 14 tests must necessarily be so low that they need hardly be attended to . |
| 6 | The way in is so low that one has to stoop on entering , but inside the cave there is a large water-floored hall with two recesses off . |
| 7 | This apparently was so serious that I had a sudden joyous hallucination . |
| 8 | The sea below was so clear that it was possible to enjoy the underwater antics of swimming guillemots , even from such a height . |
| 9 | Um maybe it was particularly controversial because it seemed to be accusing er people , men in the family , particularly fathers , of having abused their children anally with all this sort of y'know homosexual connotations of that which activated the number of , as well as a number of fears about about child sex abuse and being a child abuser , it activated a number of rather more homophobic fears , both among the people so accused and in c our culture generally and er that perhaps explains why this er particular incident was so was so compelling and attracted so much com er publicity , according to Campbell anyway . |
| 10 | Dr Sasaki had not looked outside the hospital all day ; the scene inside was so terrible and so compelling that it had not occurred to him to ask any questions about what had happened beyond the windows and doors . |
| 11 | If Gunnell herself has cashed in , she 's not been so blatant or obviously motivated by the financial side as other athletes . |
| 12 | Rosa would have envied Mary her powers of passion , the open expression of her grief and her love , if she had not been so certain that the Madonna was entirely on her side . |
| 13 | Sara wished she had not been so petty when Fairfax had called , and had let him go on thinking it was Matthew 's old family house . |
| 14 | Rufus stubbed out his second cigarette , put the paper into his briefcase and slung over his shoulders the marvellous black leather coat from Beltrami he had bought in Florence , which would have made him look like a gangster if he had not been so fair and ruddy-faced and with such blue , English eyes . |
| 15 | As Gillespie remarks , even in Edinburgh , the craft unions were able to see to it that only union men worked Linotypes , and " by the end of the century , it was generally agreed that the effect of machines on employment had not been so bad as feared " . |
| 16 | This is a revolution that might have gone unnoticed had it not been so swift and successful . |
| 17 | If she had not been so fit as she is then I am convinced that she would have died . |
| 18 | Three of the medical staff who attended her independently assured her that had she not been so fit and supple they would have been measuring her for a wheelchair , or worse . |
| 19 | The British Government have lagged in their support for events in Europe and have not been so enthusiastic as our European partners . |
| 20 | If her eyes had not been so bright and alert , she could have been mistaken for a corpse . |
| 21 | Very few crises elsewhere are so disastrous that they can not wait an average of 30 minutes . |
| 22 | Thornton was n't quite good enough to take his title , but Eubank might soon be so tired that someone , somewhere , will catch up with him . |
| 23 | The deaf community will soon be so small as to make considerations of BSL or signing irrelevant to education . |
| 24 | He could walk out and just be so good and that is probably the thing that most impressed me about him . |
| 25 | Believe it or not , I use a fairly hot iron over the neck area to be cut out — the iron must not be so hot that the fabric melts , but just hot enough to flatten it . |
| 26 | The style of the figures is manifestly provincial and need not be so early as it looks at first glance , but it can hardly be after the mid century . |
| 27 | Product names therefore should not be so specific as to exclude wider use where appropriate . |
| 28 | I would not be so ungallant as to doubt the word of the hon. Member for West Bromwich , East today , but given the pressure that Labour Members placed on that Bill , a serious question mark would hang over any Labour Secretary of State who did not give way to pressure regarding the timetabling of a public inquiry procedure and who did not take some time to allow the result to be published or deliberated on . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The length of the transition curve depends upon the total change of radius , the velocity of the engine and the permitted superelevation , bearing in mind that the cant must not be so great that if an engine is halted it will topple over . |