Example sentences of "be [pron] so [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The path that leads to the world 's highest mountain is full of adventures … full of famous stories … but there 's been nothing so grand and gallant as the expedition being planned by Macintyre of Milton Keynes … who cater and care for the mentally disabled … |
| 2 | So why am I so lucky and I got you as well ? |
| 3 | ‘ There are none so blind as those who will not see ! ’ |
| 4 | Del Boy 's words of wisdom went through my mind ‘ There are none so blind as those who wo n't listen ’ . |
| 5 | Or is it that there are none so blind as those who will not see ? |
| 6 | Now I want you to tell me the important part — why the hell are you so desperate that you 'll go to this extent in order to get your hands on the bequest ? |
| 7 | ‘ All I 'd say is , why are you so sure that this balcony is n't bugged ? ’ |
| 8 | Are you so inviolable that no man might dare to venture near ? ’ |
| 9 | Then : ‘ Do n't think I 'm prying , but why are you so certain that Coleby 's prepared to raise his offer ? ’ |
| 10 | Was it going to be the You Are Cold and Unfeeling Row , the Why Are You So Feeble Row , the Fat Row , the Racist Row , the Right-Wing how , the Left-Wing Row , the Merits of Jane Austen Row , the Driving Row , the Looking After Maisie Row or the Why Are You so Bitter and Twisted Row . |
| 11 | Once as we invaded his bedroom to get him up we said " Why are you so white when Uncle Niel 's so brown ? " |
| 12 | ‘ When we arrived here , ’ said Fenella , and spared a thought for the absurdity of these words , because the manner of their arriving had been something so remarkable as to defy explanation or description . |
| 13 | Are we so insular that we can not learn from others ? |
| 14 | Confident youth may never imagine a world like this in a million Sundays , but these pictures tell it like it is for by far the majority of us at one time or other ; and I defy anyone to say that it could not be them — be they so lucky as still to be climbing when approaching 80 . |
| 15 | Anyone in Hong Kong with a problem — be it so trivial as to know which horse to place a bet on , or so crucial as to know whom to marry — can ask the god Won Tai Sin , whose temple is to be found in the middle of a vast housing estate in north Kowloon , and who came to fame by turning boulders into sheep . |
| 16 | They are not so insignificant that they can be ignored ; but nor are they so important that they can be allowed to kill the only prospect for peace that does not involve a fight to a standstill . |
| 17 | But are they so important that the teachers should not be expected to know about technical and vocational education , about an important part , in other words , of the education service towards which many of their pupils will , in time , be moving ? |
| 18 | Both of them loved women and in that love as in every emotion they were inarticulate , yet in no impulse of the heart were they so tongue-tied as in this great and pure friendship of theirs . |
| 19 | Were they so poor that they could n't afford to pay ? |
| 20 | There 's nothing so lonely as unemployment , even if you 're on a queue with a thousand others . |
| 21 | Well that 's nothing so bad because this is what you 're trained for but |
| 22 | There is nothing so soul-destroying as living from day to day with no purpose . |
| 23 | ‘ There is nothing so fascinating as other people 's disputes . ’ |
| 24 | Under the Net ( 1954 ) , her first published fiction , is technically speaking a memoir-novel like Crusoe or Moll Flanders , being composed as autobiography in the first person ; and The Sea , the Sea ( 1978 ) , like Crusoe , is in part a diary where the narrator — male , as usual — is himself so unaware as he writes of the astonishing end there will be to kidnapping his lost love that the reader is as surprised as he when it finally unfolds : an audacious exploitation of the fictional memoir never attempted by Defoe himself . |
| 25 | — Of all the creatures in the ocean , there 's none so terrible as … — ; |
| 26 | Nick , Salli and Steve : there 's none so queer as Suffolk … |
| 27 | There 's none so queer as Suffolk , as follicle-flowing grind merchants and Bury boys JACOB 'S MOUSE have discovered in their illustrious nine-year history since meeting at a swimming gala , aged 11 . |
| 28 | ‘ Be none so big as looks . |
| 29 | Grainne arched her back like a cat , and Fergus began to peel the thin robe from her shoulders , kissing her bare skin , feeling her response , feeling the swing of her hair against his shoulders and chest , and exulting in it , for there is something so intimate and so wholly precious about the feel of a loved one 's hair against your skin … |
| 30 | One might expect politicians to talk fast and academics endorsing the view that the European Community is something so new and sui generis that the age old problems of the rivalry between peoples and states can be overcome through it . |