Example sentences of "is so [adj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pay of David Kershaw , 30 , from Merseyside , a locally-hired computer programmer at Fujitsu is the same as that of Japanese colleagues — which he describes as average because , he says , ‘ the basic pay is so low you end up putting in lots of overtime to bring your income up to the level in England . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It is so sad what happened and it made me cry when I read her story but she is a remarkable woman . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ It is so sad what happened and it made me cry when I read her story but she is a remarkable woman . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It is so sad they lose a daughter . |
| 5 | The smell is so terrible you want to throw up . |
| 6 | The printing is so poor I kept checking to see if the ink had come off on my clothes and the editors should have picked up errors like the attribution to Mary Cassatt of a mother and child by Berthe Morisot . |
| 7 | The grass is so dry it seems impossible that it can ever come to life again : yet the huge acacia trees along the riverbed are putting out blossom , delicate sprigs of green in anticipation of the rains to come . |
| 8 | Ulster Unionist councillor Jim Rodgers says the situation is so serious he has contacted the airport to see what can be done . |
| 9 | He is so alarmed he gets his accents muddled . ) |
| 10 | There is so much I want to say , I feel I ca n't spare one minute from you when I might be with you telling it all to you . |
| 11 | Handsome new Dr Robert Khalefa is so arrogant he makes fatal errors . |
| 12 | For some women , an abortion is so traumatic they want it done quickly . |
| 13 | Peter Grimes is so famous it runs the risk of being taken for some sort of operatic norm . |
| 14 | Now the family is so desperate they want to move away to start life afresh — away from the older boys who they are convinced lead him astray . |
| 15 | Italian cuisine is so good we do n't bother to comment , but you 'll find some hints about catering in Cannigione on page 45 . |
| 16 | In some cases the territory is so good it does n't matter that a female has to share it with other females . |
| 17 | Gloucestershire 's Richard Mainwaring is so good he walks on water … the British Barefoot Water ski-ing champion defends his title at the Cirencester Club in the Cotswold Water Park this weekend … he 's looking for his ninth win and that will be a world record … |
| 18 | At the moment protein A is so scarce it costs between £5 and £10 a milligram . |
| 19 | we take some of them part bake breads and some cheese and biscuits and a great big packet of cheese and , and you just you know , you can either just sit there , but the food , once you get down the food is so cheap you do n't want nothing else in the heat . |
| 20 | His argument is so wrong I do n't know where to begin . |
| 21 | We have our local school in the flight path and apart from the fact the noise is so bad they have to stop teaching , there is also genuine concern about safety . |
| 22 | It is so crap I do n't know what it is . |
| 23 | And the flame propagation is so rapid it 's consumed that it just blows . |
| 24 | But because she is so busy we have had to travel to see her , it was nice to get together here in Wales , ’ said Mrs Riddiford . |
| 25 | John McGahern , on the other hand , writes , speaks and thinks in a style that is so sparse it defies anyone to deny the truth at its core . |
| 26 | The flowchart , to explain how the chemicals are made , is so complicated it resembles a bowl of spaghetti . |
| 27 | Of the 514 , she has managed to research all but two : one has the common name E. Clarke and so could be anyone , she says , but the other , ‘ Loten ’ , is so unusual she has n't found a single reference to it . |
| 28 | But Janet is so angry she rejected the offer and is seeking a cash settlement . |
| 29 | Ali is so large I have to stand on my toes to reach over and across the huge expanse of his back to slip the tie under his collar . |
| 30 | The picture , above , in the National Portrait Gallery , London , is so popular it has even surprised the man who painted it , postman 's son Richard Stone , 40 . |