Example sentences of "be so [adj] and [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How can the Prime Minister be so complacent and so indolent when he is receiving advice that something now needs to be done ? |
| 2 | In fact many women said it was kinder to cry than to be angry because , they claimed , if they said what they were really thinking their husbands would be so incredulous and so humiliated that the marriage would not survive . |
| 3 | Shareholders would be unwise to be so trusting and surely have little to lose from the insistence that directors comply with externally monitored rational decision-making procedures . |
| 4 | It was ludicrous to be so young and yet a has-been . |
| 5 | You would be so shocked and so disgusted that whatever faint chance of your return is left would disappear for ever . |
| 6 | Paradoxically , one of the biggest , says Thomas Davenport , a management consultant with Ernst & Young and one of the earliest advocates of re-engineering , is a company 's existing computer system , which can be so complex and yet so central to the firm 's business that it is too expensive and too risky to scrap entirely ( though not always — see box ) . |
| 7 | Strange how they can be so strange and then , quite suddenly , so normal . |
| 8 | Carrie felt impatient with her — no grown-up should be so weak and so silly — but she was sorry as well . |
| 9 | In my part of the world , which is north east England and especially County Durham , nobody much really believes all this talk about an industrial and economic recovery which will be so strong and so widespread that most people will be back in the sort of jobs they used to have , providing they get the necessary training . |
| 10 | Since the fear of fear will not be so great you will not be so distressed and then the anxiety will fade away of its own accord . |
| 11 | He found it was too large to be caused by a gravitational field : if it had been a gravitational red shift , the object would have to be so massive and so near to us that it would disturb the orbits of planets in the Solar System . |
| 12 | Who could be so abominable and so foul and so devoid of proper awe that he might heave and push and grunt and pant above her parted legs ? |
| 13 | Who would be so abominable and so foul and so devoid of proper awe that he might heave and push and grunt and pant above her parted legs ? — ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Who could be so abominable and so foul and so devoid of proper awe that he might heave and push and grunt and pant above her parted legs ? ’ |
| 15 | It would be useless to pretend that identity of non-meanings , if it is to make sense , ought to be so explicable and then criticise this idea on the grounds that it can not be so explained . |
| 16 | It 's awful how we have to be so aware and always on our guard that we are n't able to live normal lives . |