Example sentences of "[be] so [adj] as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The style of the figures is manifestly provincial and need not be so early as it looks at first glance , but it can hardly be after the mid century . |
| 2 | It will be so long as I am sitting in this office . ’ |
| 3 | It reminds us of the adaptability of old people about which earlier comment has been made and suggests that the rigid divisions between the sexes in tending roles , although still powerful , may not be so impermeable as they sometimes appear . |
| 4 | 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 ? ’ |
| 5 | In a smaller stadium they will not be so passionate as they were when they beat the Americans in the final . ’ |