Example sentences of "be [vb pp] so [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly it is the only Egyptian village I know where the houses are placed so far apart . |
| 2 | I doubt such a venture could have been undertaken so rapidly elsewhere . |
| 3 | Many examples of animal behaviour can be seen as evidence supporting the assertion , ‘ Animals are designed so as best to fulfil the function for which they were intended ’ . |
| 4 | The analysis of patterns of class based inequality that has been presented so far clearly indicates the existence of people who experience considerably disadvantaged life chances , those for example who are found among the lowest 20 per cent of income earners . |
| 5 | It is necessary to rely on the accounts published since the embargo on absolute secrecy was lifted in 1977 , and there seems little advantage in repeating here what has been told so well already ; and , after all , this book has quite a different purpose . |
| 6 | They have been found so far only in construction disputes , but there is nothing to prevent their use in other contexts . |
| 7 | Compacts also provide an invaluable forum for dialogue between teachers and employers to discuss and clarify ways in which the curriculum should be developed so as best to provide for the needs and interests of students in and beyond school . |
| 8 | Also , she was acutely embarrassed at having to share her cousin 's bed , especially as they would be squeezed so closely together in the small space . |
| 9 | Lucky , too , are children whose path through the complexities of the Old Testament can be made so comparatively straight by The Children 's Bible in 365 Stories , of which the third pack is now available for both Old Testament ( TS379 — two cassettes ; 2 hours 28 minutes ) and New Testament ( TS383 — two cassettes ; 2 hours 11 minutes ) . |
| 10 | If weapons could be made so much more destructive , if used , the results would be cataclysmal , and could endanger the existence of the planet and all life on it . |
| 11 | One advantage is that the animals do n't have to be moved so much so lorries do n't clog up town centres , but there are disadvantages , market day is a chance for farmers to meet and keep track of prices . |
| 12 | Even if this had been so — and Reagan worrying about Iran 's industrial base has the true ring of fantasy — the bartering was not to be turned so easily away from war , on either side . |
| 13 | Indeed , if the Bible was to be taken so very seriously , separated brethren listened to attentively , the world served and precisely in its contemporaneous form , all sorts of other things were bound to start falling into new places too , places extremely different from those provided by ultramontanism . |
| 14 | This is the story of the Bristol Blenheim that was so painstakingly restored by Graham Warner and his team of enthusiasts , only to be destroyed so soon afterwards in a crash . |
| 15 | The people who will suffer most will be those who have been hit so hard already by the attempted dismantling of the welfare state . |
| 16 | In the US great emphasis has been placed on rooting out aggressive instincts from those used for show stock , but this lead has not been followed so staunchly elsewhere . |
| 17 | The CICB said the woman were abused so long ago that their cases had to be considered under the pre-1979 rules which excluded compensation for offences committed by relatives living under the same roof . |
| 18 | Mandatory penalties are very much the exception , and although there are statutory maximum penalties for particular offences , most of these were devised so long ago , and in such different circumstances , as to render them largely irrelevant for the control of judicial sentencing today . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , Dr Michel Halbouty , chairman of the Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources , told the meeting that the findings indicated that as much oil and gas remained to be found in the Pacific as had been discovered so far worldwide . |
| 20 | But there is all the difference in the world between people created as equal before God , having equal access to the law , and the way in which equality is used so frequently today : not as equality of opportunity but as equality of outcome . |
| 21 | I think also in those very tough times ahead I think it 's a very difficult decisions to be made about what services are provided erm , and what operation people are actually going to be able to have done and I wonder how much local people are gon na have a chance to say anything about that in the situation in which their health service their health authority is based so far away . |
| 22 | Cossiga 's term of office was also due to expire shortly after the general election , the first time since 1948 that parliamentary and presidential elections had been held so closely together . |
| 23 | The long-established Manx cat is certainly as abnormal as any of them , with its strangely abbreviated backbone and the problems this causes , but its presence at cat shows was accepted so long ago that nobody now objects to its inclusion . |
| 24 | THE vague and ill-considered commitment to dilute the Government 's industrial relations reforms which was endorsed so easily yesterday by the Labour Party conference will return to haunt the party 's leaders , rather as the question of nuclear weapons did until it was , apparently , laid to rest earlier this week . |
| 25 | She was held so tightly now that she could not struggle . |
| 26 | The team was chosen so far ahead that the monumental Rangers defender George Young was omitted because of an injury that cleared up weeks before the team left Scotland . |