Example sentences of "it be [vb pp] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why has it been extended so far beyond the large-scale political contexts where it was needed , to permeate modern ideas about choice and freedom ? |
| 2 | Why , in Oxford , has it been left so far to the police , the voluntary sector and private sponsorship to try to cobble together a scheme ? |
| 3 | She 's upset it 's 'appened so soon , ’ Carrie went on . |
| 4 | The only real surprise about Danny Rampling 's fine debut single ‘ I Hate Hate ’ is that it 's taken so long for a DJ of his reputation to commit himself to vinyl . |
| 5 | In captivity , a good memory and fear will destroy the horse if it is handled so badly that it becomes permanently anxious . |
| 6 | It begins auspiciously with Purcell 's sacred aria The Blessed Virgin 's Expostulation , not available elsewhere , but back again at last and doubly valuable because it is handled so beautifully . |
| 7 | If it covers the case only superficially there is the possibility of palliation and suppression without cure , the more so as it is repeated so frequently . |
| 8 | I always welcome hearing it when it is delivered so lucidly from the mouth of the hon. Member for Islington , North ( Mr. Corbyn ) . |
| 9 | Even then , there may be limits to an exclusion — if it is drawn so widely as to protect a party from all liability , even for total non-performance , its effect may be that the party has promised nothing ; there is therefore no contract , or at best only a unilateral one . |
| 10 | It was really a good play , ha , and it was done so well , and you were so close to it as well , you got in for two pounds , best thing I 've ever seen . |
| 11 | That it was done so artlessly in the past , of course , does not mean that ideas of what is right and wrong should not be dealt with in stories and novels for young people . |
| 12 | Just as her husband had felt obliged to match up to the might of his guest by throwing his wealth into the balance , so she counteracted his fame with the successes of her only daughter ; and yet it was done so innocently , it was modestly done . |
| 13 | And it was done through a trust then , and it was done so quietly that they had n't time to object . |
| 14 | Mr Smidovitch would not elaborate on the objectives of the visit or why it was mounted so suddenly . |
| 15 | As to the one I sent in before , it was written so quickly , that it could not be good . |
| 16 | But it was made so hastily that not even the government 's advisory committee on waste management was consulted ; one member of the committee , Professor John Greenings , said he was considering resigning in protest . |
| 17 | She tossed her head defiantly , and just for a moment saw a flicker of something in his eyes before it was gone so fast that she knew she must have imagined it . |
| 18 | It was built so very near the sea that it had narrowly escaped being carried away in high tides , and doubtless would have been altogether afloat but for its having a foundation of some two feet and a half of stone . |
| 19 | It was opened so forcefully that one of the straps broke . |