Example sentences of "[be] so [adj] [coord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why risk the possibility that the invariably expensive instrument may be ‘ not quite what you wanted ’ , and thus face the steep depreciation between brand-new to second-hand common to all custom-built guitars , when modern ‘ copy ’ guitars are so good and so cheap ? |
| 2 | But I think er the old standards are so good and so strong you know we still get the odd good one coming out but the old ones were so good and so strong that even re-recorded with er even with the more modern I suppose er bit of arrangement still the great sounds from the . |
| 3 | you ca n't say what you want to say because you are so nervous and so on ! |
| 4 | Because the eggs are so small and so widespread it is easy for them to be swallowed . |
| 5 | you get these jocks that get up there , big and they think they are so cool and then |
| 6 | well this people I mean with , with , that I mean that really is more or less the same amount as the other companies have said for er more or less the whole lot , so why the wardrobes are so cheap and yet the , the bed surrounding is so expensive , we do n't know |
| 7 | Despite the masterpieces they contain , Italy 's museums are so uninviting and so often closed that they have very few visitors : only the Uffizi is over the one million mark ( 1,048,185 ) , with the Accademia in Venice at a mere 183,474 ( compared with the London National Gallery 's four million visitors ) . |
| 8 | Partly this was due to cost , but mainly it was because French cathedrals are so vast and so lofty , with high vaults of great span , that a steeple became too great an engineering hazard . |
| 9 | Presidential support scores are so inadequate and so subject to misinterpretation by students and others ( including presidents ! ) that it is time for Congressional Quarterly to consider abandoning them . |
| 10 | I think er everything is in the people 's hands really , but people are so varied and so different are n't they ? |
| 11 | It is hard to think of two other nations in Europe which are so close and yet , still , despite many noble efforts on both sides , so very far apart . |
| 12 | Chomsky has claimed that the principles underlying the structure of language are so specific and so highly articulated that they must be regarded as being biologically determined ; that is , as constituting part of what we call " human nature " and as being genetically transmitted from parents to children . |
| 13 | Even if teachers were given the time and opportunity to develop their professional lives in the ways they felt most suitable , the questions and dilemmas that face them are so many and so deep that it is indeed a daunting task . |
| 14 | Has the desire been bred in us or is it that there are so many and so easily available today that they are no longer considered of value ? ) |
| 15 | Half of it , no where there are so many and so much in electronics which conflicts with one another . |
| 16 | The scenes of horror and infamy on board of a man-of-war are so many and so great that I think they must rather disgust a mind than allure it . ’ |
| 17 | However , they are most unlikely to solve the problem of excessive delays , partly because the limits themselves are so generous and partly because the prosecution is free in any event to ask for additional time . |
| 18 | ‘ You are so foreign and yet so familiar . |
| 19 | This time I studied it in good sunlight , because some of the colours are so dim or so dark that one can hardly see what the pattern is all about . |
| 20 | THE obstacles facing any film-maker are so large and so numerous that you might imagine only the best reach the screen . |
| 21 | are so old and maybe , so many and all drains and this and that , and the next thing ! ! |
| 22 | The engagements most undertake are so short and so intermittent that they would not acquire sufficient service to gain any substantial employment rights . |
| 23 | Alternatively , the infection may be confined to the inside of the mouth , where it may not produce any symptoms , or may cause ulceration which is difficult to distinguish from ‘ aphthous ’ ulcers ( the small mouth ulcers that are so common and so difficult to treat ) . |
| 24 | Among those noting Xu 's habit of using just one board ( ingredients are so fresh and so quickly prepared that food poisoning is not considered a threat ) is Keith Mitchell , team captain of the British chefs competing at the culinary Olympics in Frankfurt next year , and head chef at the Grand Hotel , Eastbourne , East Sussex . |
| 25 | In some cases that might be true ; modern international show jumping course are so big and so technical that they demand a horse with the size , scope and power to make the heights and spreads . |
| 26 | ‘ In the towns now they are so busy or so tired , poor souls , or so wretched and idle that there is no time for that calm contemplation of one 's existence which is the best part of our lives and which continues at all levels in a place such as this , among the peasantry as much as among those they call the Statesmen . |
| 27 | The recession might not have been so long nor so deep had she listened . |
| 28 | Snodgrass embarked on a story about a very famous jewel called the Koh-i-noor , which he thought had once adorned a great King 's State Crown and explained how it had been so rare and so heavy that it had had to be kept locked away behind bars and guards , so that nobody could steal it . |
| 29 | It is therefore remarkable that the amount of co-operation and collaborative work between local authorities and higher education institutions has been so limited and only shows recent signs of expansion . |
| 30 | Frustrating or what — it had been so faint and so brief . |