Example sentences of "[conj] be [adv] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under section 265 the English court has jurisdiction , for example , over a debtor who is a foreign national who has never lived or been here so long as , at a time within the last three years , he was a member of a firm which carried on business in this country . |
| 2 | As you said , it all depends on the home you 've left behind you , or were likely so damned glad to leave . |
| 3 | Sometimes the workmanship in these archaic stone artefacts was very fine , and it is possible that they were used as insignia of rank , in much the same way as stone maces in the Wessex Culture in southern England ; if so , it is curious that the same obsolete tool became associated with rank in two cultures that were geographically so widely separated . |
| 4 | Yeah , we want somebody , you got ta remember , it 's the only side that is ever so slightly weaker than the Saturday side . |
| 5 | Travis sat on the edge of the bed and gently caressed her fair hair away from her face with a hand that was ever so slightly unsteady . |
| 6 | Radical and conservative values continue to co-exist and are not so much the properties of different populations but are to be found within the thinking of the same people ( Billig , 1982 ; Billig et al . , |
| 7 | They had spent so long reaching a place of safety , and were now so near . |
| 8 | The differentiation of accidents from other types is useful in the context of emergency planning and is not so clearly conveyed by other hazard typologies . |
| 9 | Were I to tell that story to my own son and tell him too of the subsequent shame and guilt that haunted me for months and is still so deeply etched in my memory , he would laugh and wonder what it was all about . |
| 10 | Margaret McLaren , Britannia Life 's American investments manager responsible for their top-performing £15m fund , said : ‘ We still look favourably on the American market which generally rises in an election year but is down so far this year . |
| 11 | The King was already there , with half the court and the Mamelukes ; and a tent , shivering in the wind , had been set up but was not so far in use . |
| 12 | The key problem though is not so much the rubbish , which is cosmetic , but deforestation . |