Example sentences of "be so [adj] as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Loch 's reputation in Shropshire does not appear to have been so contentious as it was in Scotland , and the landscape he created in the Wealdmoors is now level ploughland of peat interspersed with rectangular plantations of poplar . |
| 2 | Whether it is viewed as a physical or metaphysical symbol , the image has never been so degraded as it is today . |
| 3 | I 've never been so indecisive as I am this time . |
| 4 | If she had not been so fit as she is then I am convinced that she would have died . |
| 5 | Miss Fogerty had never been so happy as she was now , living with Dorothy and next door to another old friend , Isobel Shoosmith , who had been at college with her years before . |
| 6 | Tess had never been so happy as she was now , and perhaps never would be so again . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It will be so long as I am sitting in this office . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ? ’ |
| 11 | In a smaller stadium they will not be so passionate as they were when they beat the Americans in the final . ’ |
| 12 | And they were so patient as they waited for me to finish with my other visitors . |
| 13 | How can we know how strong our faith really is so long as we are comparatively untroubled in a world of material affluence , social ease and spiritual privilege ? |
| 14 | I never understand why the teeth of winter bite so cruelly down into the bone , how daylight sickens from the east , why Elsbeth is so chill as I lie with her , why the nights are so long , without word or gleam . |
| 15 | It is unfortunate that this street Křižovnická is so busy as it is difficult to see . |
| 16 | It is very effective and almost shocking when you realise that what he is saying makes complete sense and the uselessness of war is so true as it really achieves very little good if any at all . |
| 17 | Lucifer 's face was so devil-like as he said it that he frightened even Izzie , a thing he had never done on stage . |
| 18 | His face was so tense as he held her and gazed deep into her eyes . |