Example sentences of "be [adv] so [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am rarely so drunk that I ca n't talk or walk straight . |
| 2 | In fact , decisions are rarely so rational or even conscious . |
| 3 | People are rarely so rude that you can say , ‘ Look , we 're not enjoying this , are we ? |
| 4 | These relations between finite coordinate distances are generally so inconvenient that it makes more sense to start calculations from the differentials which do transform linearly : . |
| 5 | Probably the most decisive argument for the free personal social services is that most of their recipients are already so poor that charges bring little revenue . |
| 6 | Some words are already almost music : Shakespeare 's words are already so musical that they can hardly be set to music . |
| 7 | The quanta are individually so small that their interactions , statistically averaged , appear continuous . |
| 8 | I could go on about how many different sounds you can muster from Marshall 's new baby , but there are just so many that this would be unrealistic . |
| 9 | Yeah you see , well when we were looking you see so many and you think ooh that looks nice , ooh that 's nice but some of them are just so squadgy and well nice if you , if that 's how you want to sit |
| 10 | Mm , you 're just so immature that you 're |
| 11 | and they 're like so loud and high-pitched and then when they laugh |
| 12 | ‘ So that explains why you 're always so tense when I 'm around and why we always seem to end up bickering ? ’ |
| 13 | Well they 're ever so good if you 've got |
| 14 | It will be good , it will be an achievement , they must learn to live together , they 've got to , and they can , they can already , they 're both so wonderful and so intelligent and they like and respect each other very much , that 's absolutely clear . |
| 15 | If we 're really so bad and so thick that we 'd actually use all those wonderful H-bombs and Neutron bombs on each other , then maybe it 's just as well we do wipe ourselves out before we can get into space and start doing horrible things to other races . ’ |
| 16 | ] ‘ I went to see her at Claridge 's … they are always so obsequious when one asks for her … . |
| 17 | But that 's because I 'm used to Edgar and Isabella , who are always so clean and tidy . |
| 18 | You English girls are always so smooth and clean . |
| 19 | I am usually so well that I bear even mild illness badly . |
| 20 | However , environments are usually so variable that even if the conditions are good where the animal is now , they probably will not be in a month 's time ; it may then be better to be a hundred miles south . |
| 21 | They are usually so mild that you wo n't be aware of them , but during late pregnancy they become more noticeable , and are a painless way of preparing the body for labour . |
| 22 | If we use light whose absorption probability is high , the effects of local heating by the laser beam are usually so great that the sample decomposes . |
| 23 | Fortunately , the control mechanisms and procedures for flow processes are usually so sophisticated that the processes become automatically self-regulating . |
| 24 | Although this size is larger than those granules advocated in Chronic Diseases ( 200 to a grain ) they are still so small that one drop of the alcoholic LM 1 liquid can completely wet at least 500 of them . |
| 25 | In addition there are constraints imposed by the Soviet economy itself : it is likely that , as Cole Blasier suggests , ‘ Soviet resources are still so limited as to discourage purely political use . |
| 26 | In fact , national memories of wartime boiled mutton are still so strong that most Germans ca n't look at sheepmeat , even prime lamb , without searching for a dog 's bowl to put it in . |
| 27 | ‘ Some are still so frightened that they ca n't answer the phone . ’ |
| 28 | They are both so likeable and even though they are of different races and sex . |
| 29 | Had they been discussing any other evening he would not have been nearly so competent but the murder pinpointed the day . |
| 30 | The streets may not have been nearly so safe as nostalgia for ‘ Old England ’ suggests , but it is likely that if working-class youths had been firing off guns throughout London , then we would have heard a little bit more about the matter . |