Example sentences of "[adv] be so [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government 's own Department of Development Aid has apparently been so devious that the judge investigating the billions of Rand evidently missing or misappropriated , which should have gone towards assisting the poorer ( black ) communities , has thrown in the towel when faced by the department 's shambolic accounting . |
| 2 | The Standards and Guidance Committee is satisfied that the professions listed below are so regulated as to make it appropriate for solicitors to enter into MNPs with members of those professions , and for members of those professions to be officers of recognised bodies , in accordance with Schedule 14 paragraph 2(2) of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 . |
| 3 | It had all been so flimsy that Pascoe had hesitated about presenting it to Dalziel . |
| 4 | The monitors alone are so loud that I am baffled as to how the crew operate without some type of semaphore system . |
| 5 | Other people are hoping that the standards that can be set for the 7 , 11 and 14 tests must necessarily be so low that they need hardly be attended to . |
| 6 | This apparently was so serious that I had a sudden joyous hallucination . |
| 7 | The sea below was so clear that it was possible to enjoy the underwater antics of swimming guillemots , even from such a height . |
| 8 | Um maybe it was particularly controversial because it seemed to be accusing er people , men in the family , particularly fathers , of having abused their children anally with all this sort of y'know homosexual connotations of that which activated the number of , as well as a number of fears about about child sex abuse and being a child abuser , it activated a number of rather more homophobic fears , both among the people so accused and in c our culture generally and er that perhaps explains why this er particular incident was so was so compelling and attracted so much com er publicity , according to Campbell anyway . |
| 9 | Dr Sasaki had not looked outside the hospital all day ; the scene inside was so terrible and so compelling that it had not occurred to him to ask any questions about what had happened beyond the windows and doors . |
| 10 | Very few crises elsewhere are so disastrous that they can not wait an average of 30 minutes . |
| 11 | Thornton was n't quite good enough to take his title , but Eubank might soon be so tired that someone , somewhere , will catch up with him . |
| 12 | The deaf community will soon be so small as to make considerations of BSL or signing irrelevant to education . |
| 13 | He could walk out and just be so good and that is probably the thing that most impressed me about him . |
| 14 | We have always been so thankful that she has such a sense of fun . |
| 15 | You 've always been so strong that you do n't know what it 's been like for me since mother died . ’ |
| 16 | So , slowly , Creggan came to learn the routine and the lore of the Zoo and , without realizing it , to let his world , which had once been so wide and full of hope and freedom , close in and grow small ; a place in which the trivial things like the way Woil talked to the Men , or where the vultures were , were more important than flight , freedom , the sky and the winds they were banned from . |
| 17 | A small amount of reverberation will occur in the room where the recordings are played-back , but this will usually be so slight as to be unnoticeable . |
| 18 | It showed me that d-i-y decorating and repairs need not always be so technical and difficult — and you do n't have to be a big strapping man to do d-i-y . |
| 19 | ‘ Norman Campbell , why must you always be so cynical and spoil things for the child ? ’ |
| 20 | The change in employment may not always be so favourable as yesterday 's either , but the market is now starting to feel bullish and looking for a FT-SE of 3,000 by next year . |
| 21 | However , you may not always be so lucky and it may be necessary to return to the site the next day . |
| 22 | He also loves ‘ words which go beyond words ’ — the poetry of Baudelaire , Rimbaud , Novalis , Keats — for he feels that no human language could ever be so rich as to express perfectly all that he feels . |
| 23 | No-one as protected as that would ever be so abandoned as to defy her guardian . |
| 24 | She was still trying to cope with what she was beginning to realise was her over-reaction , though she could n't have said quite why she should feel so alarmed , when he told her coolly , ‘ You misunderstand me , Miss Everett , ’ and was on his feet too as , looking arrogantly down at her , he stated bluntly , ‘ Should I ever be so lucky as you suggest , then , be sure of it , I 'd throw away my rabbit 's foot , ’ and having forthrightly left her under no illusion but that should he ever get saddled with her then he would consider his luck had run out , he went on toughly , ‘ I already know the answer , but , for the record , I want to hear it from you — are you just playing around with Travis for the pure hell of it — or , ’ his voice had taken on a grim edge , ‘ are you in love with him ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ You 've both been so kind and helpful — I do n't know what we 'd have done without you and Ben . ’ |
| 26 | According to Henderson ( 1979 ) , ‘ no school can reasonably be so bold as to suggest that it has nothing to learn from other schools , from professional teacher-trainers or from educational scholarship and research ’ . |
| 27 | Had she really been so innocent that she 'd forgotten how passionately he could kiss ? |
| 28 | After a time he began to whisper in a voice that tried now to be soft and gentle , in complete contrast to his alarm calls : ‘ Come on , Minch , you ca n't really be so ill that you ca n't show me your face just for a moment , or let me hear the ruffle of one of your wings . |
| 29 | Could Kevin 's parents really be so careless that they would lose him twice ? |
| 30 | BELVILLE : [ getting a little bored with PAMELA 's compliance ] You are very obliging , Pamela , but now be so good as to find some fault with me and say what you would wish me to do to appear more agreeable to you . |