Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] so [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Whose broad bums and shite cars through the perilous night , as on the ramparts we cowered in abject and pathetic fear was so chicken-livered streaming … ‘ |
| 2 | The chant was so beautiful Athelstan stopped , closing his eyes to listen , until a rough-mouthed carter flicked his whip , bellowing how some men had to work and could n't laze around like stupid priests . |
| 3 | Or he could follow the Germans , who have duly provided him with an excuse for higher base rates at next week 's party conference — but have also made it abundantly clear that the Bundesbank is the dominant monetary authority in Europe , and our much-vaunted independence is so much poppy-cock . |
| 4 | It 's because people know so little about themselves that their knowledge of nature is so little use to them . |
| 5 | I sometimes think that the hon. Gentleman is so busy thinking up his contorted questions that he does not observe what is going on in the House at other times . |
| 6 | Ace was so much part of her unacknowledged dreams that it was barely a shock therefore to find herself pulled up and into his strong arms . |
| 7 | Her grandfather 's insistence that she was free to go out into the world now and take a course of training was so much nonsense . |
| 8 | In this chapter I argue that the legislative principle is so much part of our political practice that no competent interpretation of that practice can ignore it . |