Example sentences of "[be] so [adj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am so angry it takes me a long time to find the words . |
| 2 | But because the repercussions are so enormous it becomes a political and social issue as well . ' |
| 3 | It had been so vivid it seemed real , yet had she really been idiot enough to set out on a rough sea in a mere dinghy ? |
| 4 | Perhaps because it has been so popular it has many common names , such as hag taper , Aaron 's rod , Adam 's flannel and torches . |
| 5 | We 've been so lucky it has n't rained . |
| 6 | All the time she had lain awake , it had been so quiet it had quite unnerved her . |
| 7 | You 're so efficient it seems strange you have n't mastered the art of the dumpling . |
| 8 | Cos it 'll be so hot it gets so hot that boiler |
| 9 | In the shorthand this would be written 2 H , but being so fundamental it has a special name and symbol of its own , d for the deuteron , the nucleus of the deuterium atom ( symbol D ) . |
| 10 | ‘ Middlesbrough Library came up with a decade of the Annual Register from 1790–1800 , which was wonderful , ’ she said , adding that they were so dirty it looked as if they had n't been touched since that date . |
| 11 | The garden doors , splintered with age , were so low it seemed that only children were meant to enter . |
| 12 | ‘ But because we were so bad it woke us all up . |
| 13 | The grass is so dry it seems impossible that it can ever come to life again : yet the huge acacia trees along the riverbed are putting out blossom , delicate sprigs of green in anticipation of the rains to come . |
| 14 | Peter Grimes is so famous it runs the risk of being taken for some sort of operatic norm . |
| 15 | In some cases the territory is so good it does n't matter that a female has to share it with other females . |
| 16 | At the moment protein A is so scarce it costs between £5 and £10 a milligram . |
| 17 | And the flame propagation is so rapid it 's consumed that it just blows . |
| 18 | John McGahern , on the other hand , writes , speaks and thinks in a style that is so sparse it defies anyone to deny the truth at its core . |
| 19 | The flowchart , to explain how the chemicals are made , is so complicated it resembles a bowl of spaghetti . |
| 20 | The picture , above , in the National Portrait Gallery , London , is so popular it has even surprised the man who painted it , postman 's son Richard Stone , 40 . |
| 21 | It 's so incongruous it stuns me for a few seconds . |
| 22 | The milk 's so cold it makes my teeth ache . |
| 23 | ( Like all Mazdas it 's so reliable it comes with a 3-year warranty ) . |
| 24 | make laughing , a derogatory terming degenerate or C , a penis that 's so shrunken it looks like a pair of testicles ? |
| 25 | ‘ You know , ’ said Simon , ‘ she 's so thick it takes all the fun out of it . |
| 26 | We offer the other hand , and eventually a life line is discovered , although it 's so short it appears that we died several years ago . |
| 27 | Mr Carson took me to Astor House for luncheon and it was all quite elegant , but the food was so rich it has left me thirsty . ’ |
| 28 | Their late-night shouting match was so noisy it kept staff awake . |
| 29 | I ca n't remember , it was so awful it seemed a lifetime , why do you endlessly bother me , why do you carp so ? ’ |
| 30 | Victoria showed her round the house , which was so tiny it did n't take long and Elizabeth told the Pack about English Brownies . |