Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [verb] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many recreation items such as caravans and boats that are on hire purchase are used so seldom they could be rented over the course of the hire purchase scheme and with enough cash left over to buy the item new if we still wanted one . |
| 2 | In order to explain why offences of violence are regarded so seriously , reference has been made to the value a of privacy and physical integrity . |
| 3 | Why these two methods of accounting are controlled so differently is a complex matter , but a factual difference is that in the context of companies depreciation is purely a matter of accounting , whereas for local authorities it is a matter of accounting and finance . |
| 4 | It is as if the Poet were concentrating so strongly on giving an adequate image of the Friend that he ceases to think about himself and his own unworthiness by comparison . |
| 5 | They do n't know he 's there because the wind is howling so loudly . |
| 6 | England prop Jeff Probyn revealed : ‘ Nobody in the side is shining so far , but everyone is pulling in the same direction . |
| 7 | Is it because the right hand side is going so badly ? |
| 8 | And now the roof 's leaking so badly they 've had to close the gym completely . ’ |
| 9 | Fred Gillett of the American science team says that despite the sun 's heat falling on IRAS , the satellite 's insulation is working so well that there is ‘ less heat going into the system than is radiated by the tip of my little finger ’ . |
| 10 | A wound on that side can kill within minutes , because blood is lost so quickly and the body 's supply of oxygen suddenly falls . |
| 11 | Pascoe 's mind was racing so fast he had to make an effort of will to bring it under control . |
| 12 | What is interesting about this is that they clearly do not know the history of the form ; they are unaware that the rule was made so rigidly in the first place to suit the whims of anti-feminists . |
| 13 | But this time the tape was sagging so low it was around the horse 's knees . |
| 14 | But this time the tape was sagging so low it was around the horse 's knees . |
| 15 | How could any red-blooded male ignore the message the actress was sending so blatantly ? she wondered despairingly . |
| 16 | Already involved with her longstanding boyfriend Neil Turley , Jenny declined his advances , but undaunted , fearless Frank phoned her on a regular basis and left messages with her unsuspecting boyfriend , a West Ham fan who was flattered that the team 's top scorer was training so late at night . |
| 17 | No wonder the horse was moving so swiftly . |
| 18 | That maintenance was continued so long is probably due to the fact that Gordon Thomas , its instigator , had by this time become General Manager of the Grand Junction Company , and it is understandable that he would have been reluctant to preside over the disintegration of the lift , his most original and spectacular achievement . |
| 19 | Her pleasure was written so plainly on her face that Dr Neil wondered again about the true nature of his new and strange housemaid . |
| 20 | Since the formal procedures of the law are used so rarely , the number of legal samples or prosecutions in which an officer may be involved are never taken as a sign of competence . |
| 21 | Never before in financial history had so much wealth been acquired so quickly . |
| 22 | Finally , after a long time , the bar is pushed so far inland that the marsh is completely eroded and the remains of the bar with associated sand dunes appear on the original coastline ( Fig. 8.18E ) . |
| 23 | But punishing the child , telling him how naughty he is and how disappointed you are that such a big boy is behaving so stupidly , will not solve the problem . |
| 24 | An ACET-link will play a vital role as our work is growing so rapidly . |
| 25 | In the second kind of solution , the universe is expanding so rapidly that the gravitational attraction can never stop it , though it does slow it down a bit . |
| 26 | For example , when a child is playing so destructively with a toy that it is likely to break , if the natural consequence occurs and the toy breaks , the child is able to learn from the outcome of his/her actions . |
| 27 | Typical is S. Botolph 's Church , Boston , in Lincolnshire , called colloquially the ‘ Boston Stump ’ because its top storey was added so much later than the rest of the church and for many years the tower had a decapitated appearance ( 476 ) . |
| 28 | The trouble was , as I and several other people pointed out , the universe was expanding so fast that even if the bubbles grew at the speed of light , they would be moving away from each other and so could not join up . |
| 29 | Potato farmers everywhere arec having trouble with reports of only thirty per cent of the crop being gathered so far . |
| 30 | In August , near Worth , he sent his mother " a memoir of the horribly devastated battlefield , scattered all over with countless mournful remains and reeking with dead bodies " and in December he wrote to a friend : " if one is to avoid losing all courage , one must not think of these frightful things any more " It is apparent how far removed this mood was from any chauvinistic or militaristic fervour — nor would we particularly expect any such fervour ( despite long established misconceptions about Nietzsche 's attitudes ) from one whose ideas of German nationhood were moulded so largely by the cultural preoccupations of a Hölderlin or a Schopenhauer . |