Example sentences of "be so [adj] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just why such people are so sure this wing of the party will be in charge is hard to understand . |
| 2 | They are so subtle these Chelsea songs . |
| 3 | The first consideration , I think , is how serious the offence is and there will be some offences which are so serious that custody may be the only proper sentence . |
| 4 | They are so frequent these days in London , which has eight of 20 First Division clubs , that we must expect aesthetic considerations to be overridden . |
| 5 | North Cornwall must have some of the most spectacular scenery in the whole of the British Isles , and the coastline from Morwenstow to Looe consists of wild , towering cliffs that are so rugged many people have lost their lives on them . |
| 6 | He 'd been so gentle that morning when he must have seen he had hurt her feelings , and she felt good inside that she had seen the more gentle , considerate side of him . |
| 7 | ‘ He 's been so good all night . |
| 8 | But that was only because she had eaten nothing since last night and had been so furious this morning about her father 's gall in writing that damnably cheerful letter . |
| 9 | All she could see was Felipe 's face , his dark eyes , the laughter that had been so ready this morning . |
| 10 | Shame to disturb his toilette , when he had been so meticulous that morning . |
| 11 | He 'd been so busy that afternoon that he 'd completely forgotten to call her . |
| 12 | He had been so angry all day , but why ? |
| 13 | So if I trail the classes in this way it 's not gon na do any harm I do n't think because the class presentations and the class discussions in general have been so excellent this year . |
| 14 | She had been so happy that day . |
| 15 | erm should she pack up her Saturday job , it pays around twenty pound and it will go up to about twenty five , and Sue and Will sat and talked about it and she got , she 's surprising been interviewed for the W R A F but I mean that 's not gon na be so easy these days , I mean they 're gon na take the exceptionals that they need are n't they ? |
| 16 | Living happily ever after may not be so common these days , but as we have a much greater life expectancy , perhaps we should n't expect too much of only one marriage . |
| 17 | They were so marvellous those nurses , some of them so young and all so dedicated . |
| 18 | Well I invited them up this morni They were so excited this morning when I came down . |
| 19 | People were so inefficient these days . |
| 20 | Conditions were appalling and winds were so high some rafts were brought to a halt . |
| 21 | but Jack is so temperamental these days , I mean the other day he went by he said oh |
| 22 | Because neurological syphilis is so rare these days , the call for lumbar puncture is limited . |
| 23 | Saint Phalle 's untheoretical understanding of the female body is problematic today but the work is so upfront that criticism becomes mealy mouthed . |
| 24 | She 's probably saying oh this is so boring this conversation but when she gets to our age that 'll be the same . |
| 25 | Emma Thompson ( below ) is so busy these days , she had to stay in her panto costume to marry Kenneth Branagh |
| 26 | Right down this other end of the curve the level of anxiety is so high that performance is zero , that 's when you freeze . |
| 27 | Double jacquard is so fashionable this season that most people would love to receive a sweater or jacket knitted by this technique . |
| 28 | PREMIER John Major is so worried this weekend 's EC summit will end in disaster he has called on bitter enemy Francois Mitterrand for help . |
| 29 | Quite simply , I lost the magazine ! — the distribution is so sophisticated these days that there is a period of two weeks or so when our publication is in hands other than ours and all it needs is a breakdown in communications for the system to come to a halt with all parties oblivious to the standstill , which is what happened with the Autumn edition . |
| 30 | His Majesty congratulated them on the solution of this difficult problem , and pointed out that while France and other countries existed for weeks without a Government , in this country our constitution is so generous that leaders of Parties . |