Example sentences of "be [adv] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He let Mac have his Celtic whims , everyone did ; he was vastly experienced and had been right so often . |
| 2 | The transvestite and the hermaphrodite : both were disturbing images ; perhaps they are less so now . |
| 3 | I was Mr Chairman as all the budget process have been perhaps so perhaps some budget Direct Committee when in fact . |
| 4 | These are matters which , with due regard to the personal privacy of those who have been together so long , may need to be aired , sometimes in the context of plans for the future . |
| 5 | The vociferous one had a cape and a velvet waistcoat and was either more than a little tipsy , or had been so so often he could behave no other way . |
| 6 | Even in times of rapid inflation , interest rates are generally so much higher than the rate of price inflation that saving up to buy later normally works out better value for money . |
| 7 | ‘ You 've been away so long , I almost forgot what you smelt like . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been away so long I felt a bit like the new boy walking into the old school when I arrived at the studio for Carry On Columbus , ’ he admits . |
| 9 | As far as she knew , Griselda had never been away so long before . |
| 10 | It would be fair to say that desktop publishing was undoubtedly the beginning of the revolution ; the programs are just so much easier to use on the Macintosh than on a PC . |
| 11 | I " vas going to he angry , but you 're obviously so much upset that it would be pointless . |
| 12 | We 're already so far ahead of our expected ratings that they keep suggesting we move it to an earlier time , but I wo n't let them . |
| 13 | They 're just so well made and so rugged — they 're workhorses . |
| 14 | But what I dearly would like to know is why you 're always so damned suspicious ! ’ |
| 15 | She shook hands with Sarah , whom she had not met until this afternoon , saying , ‘ It 's been ever so nice talking to you , Mrs Kleiber . |
| 16 | Typically there is a pair of ganglia in each segment of the body , but the members of a pair are usually so closely united that they appear as a single ganglion , the commissure being no longer evident externally . |
| 17 | They are usually so directly continuous with the tergum that they are regarded as postero-lateral outgrowths of that region . |
| 18 | As a result , fossil bone accumulations are usually so much more fragmentary than undamaged pellet assemblages that it is difficult to compare them . |
| 19 | The TCSC was sceptical about the Treasury 's forecast of inflation dropping to 3 per cent by 1992 given that official predictions have been wrong so often in the past . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , they are also so easily overlooked . ’ |
| 21 | These tortoise holes are often so long — up to forty feet — that judging from the tortoise 's slow rate of excavation they must have been made by several generations and are probably several centuries old . |
| 22 | While I suspect that it has absolutely nothing to do with tennis matters , ( although I will seek to justify its inclusion in this column in a moment ) , one thing I have never understood is why long haul flights in airlines are often so much cheaper than those for far shorter journeys . |
| 23 | If the intensity and pulse rate are really so perfectly correlated as the graph would suggest then surely this fact in itself is highly significant and worthy of comment . |
| 24 | But it begs the question who are they doing it with , if the female averages are really so much lower than the male ? |
| 25 | Some people might claim that this is the equivalent of a retreat from reality ; but I wonder if the world of the emotions is not more real than the superficial actions that men think of as reality and I wonder if the world of the mind which is the highest evolutionary factor of man is not more real than the ordinary facts that we are really so far from understanding . |
| 26 | ( i ) As a result of the progress of medical science certain conditions are now so easily diagnosable and treatable , that , although they once carried a mortality , it can no longer be said that they do , unless that mortality is brought on as a result of some wholly unexpected and exceptional circumstance , for example gross negligence on the part of the doctor treating the patient . |
| 27 | These techniques of consumer targeting are now so widely applied that a separate chapter must be devoted to them . |
| 28 | Microfibres are now so frequently used they no longer excite any comment : in a year or two they 'll be the norm . |
| 29 | Advances in computer technology are now so fast only computers themselves can keep pace with the data . |
| 30 | Our own children are now so far removed from danger , at least of the primal kind , and these Masai are so close to it , that you would expect them to be cowed and fearful . |