Example sentences of "they [be] so [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if teachers were given the time and opportunity to develop their professional lives in the ways they felt most suitable , the questions and dilemmas that face them are so many and so deep that it is indeed a daunting task . |
| 2 | The gaps between them are so big that if you plunge your arm through into the mantle , the clam is quite unable to grip it — though the experiment is a little less unnerving if it is tried first with a post . |
| 3 | you get these jocks that get up there , big and they think they are so cool and then |
| 4 | If there are signs of an economic upturn ‘ they are so faint as to be virtually invisible ’ , Sir Denys Henderson , chairman of ICI , said recently . |
| 5 | Do n't leave them until they are so developed and tough that they will not easily pull away and have to be cut ; this is merely pruning and you will thereby ensure that several adventitious shoots will grow to replace the one being removed . |
| 6 | If this happens they are so premature that they nearly always die . |
| 7 | They are as still as in Bryonia but it is because they are so tired and weary , not from the pain and their head is more congested than in Bryonia . |
| 8 | ‘ I thought at first , what was the mother like since there 's so little of the Flowers in any of them , since they are so good and clean and wipe their noses always on their handkerchiefs and never on their sleeves7 But the veneer is rubbing off already . ’ |
| 9 | At other times they are so vague that almost anything can be interpreted as falling within the guidelines ( rather like the very broad articles of association of a company ) . |
| 10 | In the first place it is to be accepted that it is made in wide terms though it is not said that they are so imprecise that there is a doubt as to what is covered by the order . |
| 11 | Glasses behave as they do because , while they are cooling , they are so viscous that the molecules do not have time to sort themselves out into crystals and so cool glass is a solidified liquid , not a crystalline solid . |
| 12 | They are so small that they can only be seen with a microscope . |
| 13 | They are so virtuous that one can hardly call them pagans at all . |
| 14 | In addition , the spurs between the meanders preserve the general height of the plateau surface away from the river , except where they are so narrow as to be subject to general lowering by the formation of the slopes on either side . |
| 15 | Most fungi grow as long thin threads called hyphae — they are so slender that they can only be seen under a microscope , but a mass of intertwined hyphae is visible : this is what makes up toadstools and mushrooms . |
| 16 | They are so useful as low-fat sources of protein ( and other nutrients too ) that they are an important part of any food regime , including diets to reduce weight . |
| 17 | I know the rats are a worry because they are so dangerous and can contaminate food . |
| 18 | Though such rumours can not be proved , they are so endemic that they suggest something of the sort has been occurring . |
| 19 | It could be argued that when publication of address lists reaches this scale they are so unselective as to be innocuous ; the Swedish Data Inspection Board took the opposite view when it objected to the Readers Digest organisation compiling its own register of all adult Swedes ( roughly 9 million ) . |
| 20 | We now impound fluctuations due to the weather in ceteris ceteris paribus , and neglect them provisionally : they are so quick that they speedily obliterate one another , and are therefore not important for problems of this class . |
| 21 | Although they are so common and live just beneath the ground , very little is seen of them . |
| 22 | The amphiuma , from the same part of the world , still possesses all four of its limbs but they are so minuscule that you have to look very carefully if you are not to miss them . |
| 23 | Attitudes were originally selected as possible determinants of child development because they were of a general and abstract nature ; but their use as anything but abbreviated labels has now been abandoned just because they are so abstract and general . |
| 24 | They are so modest that some may find them disconcerting . |
| 25 | They are so goal-directed that they are unlikely ever to suffer from having nothing to do . |
| 26 | These interpretations have met some opposition on two main counts : very few of the presumed terraces have beach material on them and they are so fragmentary as to rouse the criticism that their interpretation is at times subjective rather than objective . |
| 27 | The male 's olfactory organs are his antennae , which are enlarged and have a fine mesh of side-branches ; they are so sensitive that , according to the experiments of Dietrich Schneider , a single molecule of bombykol elicits a response in the sensory neuron of the male . |
| 28 | ‘ In the towns now they are so busy or so tired , poor souls , or so wretched and idle that there is no time for that calm contemplation of one 's existence which is the best part of our lives and which continues at all levels in a place such as this , among the peasantry as much as among those they call the Statesmen . |
| 29 | They are so large that from 2000ft below they look like gliders . |
| 30 | Insect ‘ cuckoos ’ defy listing ; they are so numerous and their habit has been reinvented so often . |