Example sentences of "[pers pn] are so [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | When Queen Praxis tells Riddler , ‘ You are so adamantine and impermeable , ’ I could hear W C Fields sweetly explaining , ‘ I was only fooling and pretending . ’ |
| 3 | you ca n't say what you want to say because you are so nervous and so on ! |
| 4 | You are so conceited and smug ! |
| 5 | You are so comfortable and secure in your little island . |
| 6 | ‘ You are so calm and wise , you are an angel . |
| 7 | ‘ I am delighted that you are so cheerful and optimistic . |
| 8 | ‘ You are so foreign and yet so familiar . |
| 9 | You have taken so many burdens from me , you are so level-headed and sensible . |
| 10 | We are so young and beautiful . |
| 11 | We think that we are so good and do everything absolutely correctly , but of course we do not . |
| 12 | Leila drives , a remarkable performance given that we are so wet and steaming that she must peer through condensation thick enough to carve . |
| 13 | you get these jocks that get up there , big and they think they are so cool and then |
| 14 | Do n't leave them until they are so developed and tough that they will not easily pull away and have to be cut ; this is merely pruning and you will thereby ensure that several adventitious shoots will grow to replace the one being removed . |
| 15 | They are as still as in Bryonia but it is because they are so tired and weary , not from the pain and their head is more congested than in Bryonia . |
| 16 | ‘ I thought at first , what was the mother like since there 's so little of the Flowers in any of them , since they are so good and clean and wipe their noses always on their handkerchiefs and never on their sleeves7 But the veneer is rubbing off already . ’ |
| 17 | I know the rats are a worry because they are so dangerous and can contaminate food . |
| 18 | Although they are so common and live just beneath the ground , very little is seen of them . |
| 19 | Attitudes were originally selected as possible determinants of child development because they were of a general and abstract nature ; but their use as anything but abbreviated labels has now been abandoned just because they are so abstract and general . |
| 20 | Insect ‘ cuckoos ’ defy listing ; they are so numerous and their habit has been reinvented so often . |
| 21 | Grieving might involve feeling sadness , yearning , fear , guilt , anger and even despair — and all too often , we try to suppress these emotions , because they are so intense and painful . |
| 22 | The very fact that they are so unknown and cost so high in human lives seems to me to be a point against the arguments of Enzensberger and Halliday . |
| 23 | His winning formula has been to restore the houses in stages , a wing at a time : they are so attractive and such good value that they almost invariably sell before they are completed . |