Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] so [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was glad to see Ezra , because what biased attitudes he has are so biased that he manages to be , all round , a more generous-minded and discriminating person that others who spread their capacity for bias over their entire mental outlook ’ . |
| 2 | There are people whose early experience of bodily closeness , intimacy and care has been so uncomfortable or so traumatic that they dare not risk a repetition of such pain . |
| 3 | The damage to the integrity of the US banking system caused by the feckless management of the savings and loans system — which before US financial deregulation did much the same job as our own building societies — has been so extensive that its impact often goes unstated . |
| 4 | Although there are many other strands involved in Realism generally , Morgenthau 's work has been so influential that it seems sensible to start with it . |
| 5 | The apparent ascendancy of nuclear-deterrence thinking over laws-of-war thinking has been so complete that the idea of deterrence has come to be associated in the public mind almost exclusively with extreme offensive threats against the adversary 's society . |
| 6 | It is the one-sidedness of privatisation of the monopoly public utilities that has been so apparent since the process started with British Telecom in 1985 that so deeply offends ordinary people throughout the country . |
| 7 | Her mum Pat , 48 , said : ‘ Vicky has been so upset that she has had two epileptic fits since Penny disappeared . |
| 8 | Gerald has been known to coin such memorable one-liners as the following : ‘ If the joy of the Lord is our strength , it 's little wonder that the church in Britain has been so weak and ineffective ’ ; ‘ There 's no virtue in being ten or twenty years behind the times ’ ; ‘ Most Christians are nicer than God himself ’ ; ‘ It is the unshared areas of our lives where Jesus is not Lord ’ ; ‘ One of the reasons the church in Britain has failed to grow is quite simply because it is full of people who are extremely rude ’ ; ‘ Putting the life of God into institutional Christianity is rather like putting the life of a human being into a kangaroo … . ’ 'You are only a leader if someone 's following you' ( Gerald Quotes ) . |
| 9 | The distinctive orange , yellow and black bike was a Christmas present for the youngster , but he has been so weak because of chemotherapy treatment that he has been able unable to ride it . |
| 10 | The question has been so controversial because of uncertainty about the law relating to arbitrators and experts generally and because of the differences between the consequences of an expert 's decision and the consequences of an arbitration award . |
| 11 | It is therefore remarkable that the amount of co-operation and collaborative work between local authorities and higher education institutions has been so limited and only shows recent signs of expansion . |
| 12 | In London , the Compact has been so successful that children who would previously have left as soon as they reached the school-leaving age of sixteen , are deciding to stay on at school to take further exams . |
| 13 | Astra has been so successful that its owner , Société Européenne des Satellites of Luxembourg , has already placed firm orders for third and fourth crafts to be launched in early 1993 and 1994 . |
| 14 | Its area is much smaller than it was , but the landscaping of the reclaimed areas has been so successful that they merge into the surrounding countryside and become ‘ invisible ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ The Safe-Buy concept has been so successful that the scheme is now spreading all over the UK , ’ says Judith Chalmers . |
| 16 | CHANNEL 4 's Saturday night series TV Heaven which dishes up gems from the archives has been so successful that the BBC have jumped on the bandwagon . |
| 17 | George wanted to obtain shapes that were visually stimulating in the sky and has been so successful that , since his start in Hawaii , he has travelled the world , influencing many other like-minded free spirits . |
| 18 | It was a long and difficult process , but one which has been so successful that it will be a major surprise if Torrance does n't qualify for the Ryder Cup at Kiawah Island in September . |
| 19 | The 20-year campaign to clean up Lake Vänern in southern Sweden has been so successful that its waters are in danger of becoming sterile — too clean for fish and plants . |
| 20 | A dog training scheme to help the deaf has been so successful that the organisers are having to open a second training centre . |
| 21 | We 're actually in a part of Barley Hall now accidentally except that this part has been so Georgianized that we have n't incorporated into the medieval house it 's used as an office . |
| 22 | In fact it has been so hot and humid today that I have had to get an electric fan and put it on in my room . |
| 23 | David says : ‘ It is time-consuming and expensive but the research has been so fascinating and enjoyable that it would n't matter if we were proved wrong or if the truth never came out . ’ |
| 24 | But concern about the operation has been so great that police on the Isle of Man have been flooded with more than 50 calls asking if the operation is above board . |
| 25 | But the outcry from conservationists has been so great that the government has decreed that no more wolves will be shot ( New Scientist , 10 March , p 633 ) . |
| 26 | Economic growth in the open world market economy has been so great that few governments are now in strong enough control over their civil societies to be able to deny them the chance to participate in this wealth-creating system . |
| 27 | John tells me , by the way , that the response to his trolleybus venture has been so great that he now plans to do something along similar lines , as you might say , with the railways . |
| 28 | That is an as yet unfulfilled hope , but the recent pace of experimental progress has been so great that there is every reason for optimism . |
| 29 | These are free and demand has been so great that what was initially planned as a single four-week course has been extended to sessions running until the spring . |
| 30 | Unfortunately , this proposal has been so remodelled that , in reality , the old First Division has simply been given a new name . |