Example sentences of "be [adj] [conj] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cattle are thin and some are listless but so far there have been no deaths . |
| 2 | Now there 's obviously an old-fashioned way of doing it , two twos are four , two threes are six and so forth . |
| 3 | Mr Yegor Gaidar , First Deputy Prime Minister , said : ‘ I am convinced that so far we have agreed on effective co-operation in order to resolve the problem by joint effort . |
| 4 | Together they illustrate that , even if it is true that Conservatism harbours ‘ a distrust of the purely intellectual approach in politics ’ , this in itself is an ideological position with important implications in terms of both the theory and practice of Conservatism , and Honderich concludes that ‘ the commodious proposition that Conservatives only have and only favour factual beliefs which have passed the test of time , are empirical and so on , and hence are untheoretical in various senses … needs to be delivered , if necessary by private contractors , to the rubbish heap of history ’ . |
| 5 | I mean er erm it 's a single market for every citizen of the E C twelve so an Italian , a Belgian , a German can come to this country and work , er but the p Assuming they can do everything else as equal , their qualifications are equal and so on . |
| 6 | And of course , when Jesus came and he healed the people and he spoke words of , of deliverance to those who are demon oppressed and he spoke words of that brought help to those who are blind and so on , there is of course , er , to the natural mind , a very natural explanation , it can all be explained away because you can not do these things ! |
| 7 | Similar powers in the Housing Act of 1890 had only been permissive and so far only a few councils ( notably London ) had been active house builders ; indeed some , including Birmingham , had regarded the proposition as a matter of last resort . |
| 8 | I 'll only be twenty-one or so then . |
| 9 | Yes , the frustrated mother ca n't be generous and so forth with her child , and on the whole I think the emphasis that people used to put on mothers staying at home was very misguided , because a mother who 's having to sacrifice all her outside interests for the sake of her child is just a frustrated mother , and it 's not good for the also the problem is that you then have fairly energetic women devoting all they have to children , then they over-invest in the child 's own achievements , so in fact you are putting a great psychological burden on the child because it has to grow up fulfilling expectations of an adult , which is not right for a child . |
| 10 | Unapologetic authors could not sue if the retraction was made in open court : the statement would then be privileged and so too would any report of it . |
| 11 | thought bream to be the culprits , but could n't be sure because so far I had not seen any prime out in the swim to indicate they were , in fact , present there . |
| 12 | That 's true , er the market , and I think , the general public must be aware that so far , the supply is kept at a reasonable level , the erm difficulty coming out of the erm interruption of Iraqi and Kuwaiti field has been replaced . |
| 13 | Its housing , shopping , school and medical facilities were considered to be excellent and so very attractive to the London-based staff . |
| 14 | In fact , when metals or ceramics are prepared in single-crystal form , even the common materials such as iron , aluminium , alumina and rock salt — to name only a few — are anisotropic and so not adequately described by a single modulus such as Young 's modulus or even the two moduli required for an isotropic material . |
| 15 | Er it , it worked very well for ninety percent of the time , but there was occasions when wind direction was wrong , and the noise levels were high and so on . |
| 16 | His nostrils were cavernous and so finely edged that they seemed made of paper . |
| 17 | They both were astonished that so far no indication of trouble had come from the town common ; but reckoned that it would not be long now before it did , for a few escapers from the castle had been glimpsed running in that direction . |
| 18 | seems to be producing more than just cereals and soups at the moment … the baby business is booming and so far they are all boys . |
| 19 | With a bank deposit it is relatively easy for the holder to recover the money balance , risk is low and so also is the rate of return . |
| 20 | ‘ It is possible but so far there is nothing in the way of evidence to support the idea . ’ |
| 21 | However , Mill was against a secret ballot , Mill thought votes ought to be cast publicly and the reason for this is that he thought people ought to be voting on their view of what is right and so therefore they ought to be publicly accountable . |
| 22 | Mr Patten said that he had not turned against the idea of any and all new towns : ‘ So long as the location is right and so long as people can have real confidence that a decision in favour of a new settlement will relieve development pressures elsewhere , then new villages and new settlements could have a part to play in increasing the acceptability of new housing decisions . ’ |
| 23 | a so and so , er maths is crap and so on and you know , that 's that 's going to make this into something that we would n't want |
| 24 | Indeed , the pineal of a New Zealand reptile known as the tuatara is pigmented and so close to the surface that it looks similar to a real eye . |
| 25 | But , however genuine the prospects of trade with the South Seas might have seemed , especially when enhanced by the right to sell slaves to the Spanish colonies granted at the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 , it is clear that so hugely capitalised a new incorporation was also intending to contest with the " big two " — the Bank of England and the East India Company — for the profits which came from dealing in the national debt . |
| 26 | She says they 're in soft skinnned vehicles and any shooting they encounter is dangerous but so far there 've been no injuries . |
| 27 | That is , continuous dynamic dealing with minor perturbations is automatic and so also is the application of basic rules about safety ; for example , the system or some part of it might be programmed to go through a step-change function such as a shut-down if certain parameters exceed prescribed limits . |
| 28 | So , quite clearly we 're not dealing now with a population that 's ambulant and so on . |
| 29 | Are you open to suggestions from the educational field as a whole as to what you should do and what 's important and so on ? |
| 30 | Assuming A is one , B is two and so on , think of the letter that corresponds to the number . |