Example sentences of "to [be] so [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 than that dear it 's down the other end , the other side of Old Harlow , but he used to have a surgery there which he , you know , made it better after the erm , to ease up Dr surgery cos that was so packed and the shops were absolutely and you used to have to queue and queue for , to get your shopping , you could n't , I used to cycle into Harlow and leave my cycle somewhere and then go along do my shopping , but it used to be two or three hours ' job it was , you did n't get done till dinner time and then I used to call it a , a lady used to say call there that used to have the fried fish and chip shop on the corner of erm Harlow and I used to go there and have a cup of tea before I came home because I used to be so long shopping you could n't get served you see , it 's too many people , there was nowhere else for them to go , it was only Bishop 's Stortford you had to go
2 alright , whatever you say , right there does n't seem to be so much mess as usual
3 Pervasive though this negative tradition is , it does n't quite answer why it is that in a post-Christian society there should continue to be so much indifference to the claims of animals .
4 Knowing also his hinted promise was likely to be so much dust .
5 The in-between bits — what some call life — seemed by such standards to be so much waste of time , which they could not be done with fast enough .
6 ‘ Whenever he plays for Arsenal , there always seems to be so much pressure on him .
7 ‘ I 'm sorry to be so much trouble , ’ Jim said to Mother as the men carried him in .
8 I 'm sorry to be so much trouble . ’
9 That , that 's open to the general public but where I stand you have to have a membership card to go in there now , and er you pay two pound before the season started and er local traders give you a discount and things erm it 's just one way of er segregating the supporters if you like , but there does n't seem to be so much trouble since they 've done this , but at the same time there does n't seem to be as much atmosphere
10 As she says : ‘ There seems to be so little appreciation of the potentially devastating emotional effect of finding yourself a victim ’
11 from what you 've told us , it would be possible for this aircraft to be so multi mission it could replace the whole of the front line er R A F fast jet strain , could that be true ?
12 Why has everything got to be so squeaky dean as soon as the meal is finished ? ’
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