Example sentences of "[be] [verb] so [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In our part of the world we keep up the brave talk for the sake of the image of the region , so that there may be at least some inward investment and so that those industrialists , small business , training centres , local enterprises and cooperatives which are struggling so hard to make a go of it , will not be discouraged from at least having a go , but there is n't much hope and conviction really . |
| 2 | Why carry stock when trains run so often and it has been made so easy to get goods ? |
| 3 | Leith yelled , and as fury which she just could not contain spiralled out of control , her right hand arced through the air , and even as she hit him with all her strength , she was still yelling , ‘ Since it seems to be taking so long to sink in , you can bank on it — whoever pays my mortgage , you 're far , far at the back of the queue ! ’ |
| 4 | strict , straight to the point , the work went on the blackboard , you were given so long to do it , close your book and if you did n't do it you never saw the teacher , but you felt his cane on your knuckles and he knew you were n't doing your work , so you did it . |
| 5 | The RCO held a conference to investigate why it is proving so difficult to recruit in this area . |
| 6 | It 's this generation who 'll benefit from the new Europe ; a Europe that 's proving so hard to build . |
| 7 | ‘ But now it 's becoming so expensive to make programmes we are being forced into making sure we are going along the right lines . |
| 8 | I 've got a Congress fund which , I mean today it 's getting so dear to go to Congress erm you know , the hotels are so dear . |
| 9 | It is the main reason why it is taking so long to get round this course . |
| 10 | She 's tried so hard to refuse payment from her aunties for the day 's outing , but has succeeded only in deflecting each one 's departing offer of a clandestine , crumpled tip . |
| 11 | In fact it is only because he is trying so hard to get it right that he can be said to get it wrong at all , and the gauche hero is above all the example of social over-anxiety , like Betjeman 's subaltern weak for love on a Hampshire tennis-court : his palms moist at the first handshake , one imagines , his over-careful manners a veneer masking racking uncertainties , and an over-developed sense of social duty enforcing its own inner punishment . |
| 12 | He 's trying so hard to force his teeth through that wodge of food he 's in danger of developing lockjaw . |
| 13 | Small wonder the chemists are working so hard to get British Yew trees to yield up their medical secrets . |
| 14 | She had decided what must have happened to him , why he was taking so long to return , and why she could never recall his face . |
| 15 | Jehana was trying so hard to demonstrate that she did not care for Alexei 's attentions that he was sure that she felt attracted to him . |
| 16 | Not only that , it was brought up time and again by the media and used to undermine the serious work that he was trying so hard to do . |
| 17 | None of this would have mattered , of course , to the crushed but undefeated people he was trying so hard to help . |