Example sentences of "[prep] [be] so [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the quantities of lead and nitrates which the EC is making a fuss about are so small that they represent a negligible — perhaps even a non-existent — hazard to health . |
| 2 | What did he do after being so close and yet so far ? |
| 3 | And his self-despite was so strong that he knew reviving an old flame or chasing some young actress would only aggravate it . |
| 4 | Gives the impression of being so contemporary but really plays out themes of nineteenth century , badies , goodies , etc . |
| 5 | On balance they are better off being fully camouflaged at this stage , because although the blue tail may save the life of many a young lizard it also has the disadvantage of being so conspicuous that it can , to some extent , attract unwanted attention in the first place . |
| 6 | Both subscriptions cost about £800 per year and both have the nasty habit of being so voluminous as to go largely unread . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , of course , you would n't have , he 's a recluse , a hermit practically , on account of being so peculiar and gloomy . |
| 8 | From the age of eight he began at 5 a.m. despite being so small that special pattens had to be made to enable him to reach the machinery , and he bore the scars of the corporal punishment inflicted on him there for the rest of his life . |
| 9 | The mention of suspension is of interest : that the cause of it — truancy — is not only a 20th century phenomenon is shown by the next paragraph of the Report : " The parent of George Highton who had been suspended on account of frequent absence attended by order of the Deputation and stated that he had 3 boys in the School and that the one complained of was so refractory as to be beyond his management and would not attend as he should , frequently persuading his Brothers to follow his example and having gone into service he wished him to be dismissed , which was done , and the parent was informed that if the other two were not more regular in their attendance they would also be discharged . " |
| 10 | To be honest I 'm beginning to get fed up with being so useless and just wish that ‘ Failure ’ was n't my middle name . |
| 11 | The list of issues which the group came up with was so detailed that it was discussed over the following weeks . |
| 12 | If she had n't known her twin better , Dana 's mask of sophistication could have wounded her deeply , particularly when she persisted in being so sure that Roman would do exactly as she wished . |
| 13 | Certainly it does nothing to enhance the reputation of democracy when its application is seen to be so restricted and its outcome so ineffectual . |
| 14 | The motion that the Prime Minister has proposed for decision by the House tonight is intended to be so meaningless that any Tory Member can vote for it while interpreting it to suit himself or herself . |
| 15 | Charles Handy suggested that a definition of a manager or a manager 's role is likely to be so broad as to be fairly meaningless . |
| 16 | Nick said , ‘ It must be nice to be so young that when you 're tired it only makes you look prettier . ’ |
| 17 | It was ludicrous to be so young and yet a has-been . |
| 18 | If a hypnotist is willing to be so deceptive while hypnotising a patient , can he be trusted when the patient is in a trance ? |
| 19 | It is comparatively rare for it to be so long or so short as to cause difficulty in sexual intercourse — about 2½ in. is long enough — while satisfactory coitus does not demand complete intromission of a penis which is rather long . |
| 20 | True , it is a risk — many a spring in Britain has thrown a frost at us in April , even May is not unknown — but you are not going to be so daft as to muffle up and go out to do the pruning just because the date or some idiot article says the time is right . |
| 21 | If the Pharisees and Scribes thought themselves to be so perfect that they were not aware of their own sin then little could be done for them . |
| 22 | He felt himself to be so uneducated that it seemed hopeless even to try to catch up with the ordinary things that people knew . |
| 23 | Who would have thought , with all this talk of millions to be made by gene juggling , that just a few years ago genetic engineering was considered to be so dangerous that one small accident could unleash upon the world a virulent plague that would make the black death look like an outbreak of summer flu ? |
| 24 | The thought of entering the disaster area of an elderly widow 's grief and shouldering some of the responsibility for helping her to bear it , and to rebuild what is left of her life , is enough to create feelings of anxiety in anyone ; and admittedly this can be a very difficult assignment , for not only will you be well aware that you are unable to give her the one thing she really wants — the return of her husband — but you will feel , as we all do when faced with the bereaved , that their personality seems suddenly to have been crushed like a flower under the heel of a vandal , showing it to be so fragile and vulnerable that almost any attempt to revive it would seem to be doomed to failure . |
| 25 | But there was a purpose and he was reminded of it , a purpose which seemed to Mr Dass to be so petty that he had n't at first been able to take it seriously . |
| 26 | Studies were put in hand to see whether it would be practicable to deploy Blue Streak in hardened underground silos in the Welsh mountains or the Scottish highlands , but the cost was found to be so great that it would have beggared the Defence Vote , making the restoration of more efficient conventional forces impossible . |
| 27 | Thus Stonehenge was presumed to postdate the tholoi of Mycenae , and the time taken for agriculture to spread to Britain was thought to be so great that the inception of the Neolithic was placed at about 2500 BC . |
| 28 | Line and Sandison conclude , ‘ Variations between individual titles , of serials as well as monographs , are likely to be so great that substantial data must be collected for each individual title , perhaps in each library ( certainly in each type of library ) if weeding is to be done on a rational basis ’ . |
| 29 | His power was said to be so great that each one of the dhāmis , when possessed by him , could split an iron cooking tripod with a single blow of his naked hand . |
| 30 | Those changes appear to be so great that they will certainly still be affecting readers of this text in the 1990s . |