Example sentences of "[ex0] [be] so [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHY HAS THERE BEEN SO LITTLE COMMUNITY BENEFIT ? |
| 2 | Never before has there been so much concern with health or so much fear about health . |
| 3 | Not since Harold Wilson prattled on about the white heat of the technological revolution — or some similar meaningless platitude — and launched Concorde , has there been so much talk about innovation and our intellectual heritage . |
| 4 | It took him all day to find addresses and write the envelopes , as there are so many agony aunts in national newspapers , teenage and women 's magazines . |
| 5 | Perhaps because there are so many bell towers in England ( 5,205 , compared with 167 in Wales and 15 in Scotland ) , not to mention about 40,000 ringers , bell-ringing is a peculiarly English institution . |
| 6 | And of course nowadays there 's so much er things that er we use , there are so much labour saving things now that which makes a big difference . |
| 7 | There are so few hospital beds available that health authorities plan to set up emergency treatment centres in football stadiums . |
| 8 | And you ca n't do anything about it , because there are so few security firms ; they have a monopoly and they do n't give a shit . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Why should there be so much hassle over one position when there are so many other good players fighting for places in the centre and back row ? |
| 10 | Why should there be so much adoration of Esther Rantzen and so much favouritism extended towards her , and so much envy of and hostility towards the quite blameless , devastatingly lovely and completely inoffensive Selina Scott ? ’ |
| 11 | He spent most of his time with his godmother , which left Theda free to do some long-neglected tasks for herself , for her meagre wardrobe of old — and some cast-off — clothing required frequent mending , and , there being so little service , she must wash her linen herself . |
| 12 | Why do you think there were so many butcher 's shops ? |
| 13 | ‘ There were so many commodity businesses trying to make a living out of exporting , so when sterling strengthened as it did , our commodity activity was priced out of existence . ’ |
| 14 | There used to be just the sports in the afternoon ; Mary Clarke and Bill Scott remembered when the races were held on the roads through the village , in the days before there were so many motor cars . |
| 15 | There were so many evening meetings to attend … |
| 16 | By the end of the Eighties there were so many library books in the shops and on market stalls ( a mediaeval phenomenon that still survives in market towns in Devon and elsewhere ) that it was clear to anyone that a new situation had arisen . |
| 17 | It was a Fleet Street joke that there were so few word processors in the Post 's editorial departments . |
| 18 | The meeting of 1950 agreed that future meetings should be held in Yorkshire , and the earlier amendment of 1920 allowing it to take place in Lancashire ( as there were so few archery clubs in the north ) be rescinded . |
| 19 | I could relate to that ; I mean , there 's so little leg room in most of them . |
| 20 | There 's so little space , though , that no weapon can be swung effectively ( damage is halved , and two-handed weapons are useless save for pommel-smashing ) , and no more than two characters can get in an effective blow each round . |
| 21 | I feel sorry for novelists when they have to mention women 's eyes : there 's so little choice , and whatever colouring is decided upon inevitably carries banal implications . |
| 22 | It 's all because there 's so little hope in England that you have to turn to Paris , or somewhere abroad . |
| 23 | There 's so little mind . |
| 24 | ‘ The thing is , there 's so little time in between tournaments and already I spend so little time in Bruhl and in Boca Raton , and it would n't make a lot of sense . |
| 25 | Now , in some situations , the magistrate might say there 's so little value in the evidence here that I wo n't hear it all , I 'll just exclude it . |
| 26 | The reason why there 's so much space above our heads here is simple : the climate controllers use it for inducing weather conditions for the whole of Arcady . ’ |
| 27 | Especially with print media , where there 's so much space to fill that you constantly need things to talk about . |
| 28 | There 's so much choice , with trips to Athens , Delphi , and Mycenae . |
| 29 | There 's so much debt in the private sector and he 's not going to get consumers out spending with that interest rate drop . |
| 30 | The furthest section of the aquarium is a mass of caves and rockwork and there 's so much activity that you could n't fail to be entranced , whether you 're a cichlid fan or not . |