Example sentences of "be so [adv] and " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The major difficulty with The Confidential Clerk , however , is that its techniques of stage action are so thoroughly and obviously conventional that anything Eliot cares to place within them is diminished . |
| 2 | The answer seems to be — persons who are so closely and directly affected by my act that I ought reasonably to have them in contemplation as being so affected when I am directing my mind to the acts or omissions which are called into question . ’ |
| 3 | While for analytical ( and polemical ) purposes these ideal types serve a useful purpose , it is arguable that states and processes are so conceptually and practically interdependent as to make naive any description or explanation of education exclusively in terms of one rather than the other . |
| 4 | The portrayal of many incidents of rape and beating are so carefully and tactfully described that the effects are realistic and pitiful . |
| 5 | I sincerely trust you are so also and that you are finally established at Government House . |
| 6 | Now , note taking is a skill in the sense that y'know the final years you would n't , final year lecturers I mean are so waffly and ah go off in all directions because of different people . |
| 7 | A media theory for the 21 st century needs to consider these changed circumstances and , more fundamentally , whether we have come , or been led , to expect too much from means of mass communication which are so obviously and primarily economic enterprises with too few available resources to tackle the range of issues that occupy today 's citizen . |
| 8 | I am delighted to second the motion that has been so ably and amusingly moved by my right hon. Friend the Member for Worcester ( Mr. Walker ) . |
| 9 | Sadly indeed , the pendulum seems to have swung , as it does swing on the education clock , so far away from the New Primary Approach that even the integrated approach to lower primary teaching , which had been so wisely and effectively urged , is no longer reflected in the current Kenya syllabus . |
| 10 | It is right that our procedures should be subject to challenge and change , but her idea of turning a Government Advisory Unit into some kind of Oxford tutorial is an absurd perversion of everything that has been so slowly and painstakingly developed over the years . |
| 11 | Diplomatic and military history had never been so subtly and competently written before Polybius , and the brilliance of Posidonius ' social analysis remained unmatched throughout antiquity . |
| 12 | It would be difficult to find another industry where division of labor has been so ingeniously and microscopically worked out . |
| 13 | Never before had the images of the great and respected been so irreverently and so widely circulated . |
| 14 | If religious truth is genuine , surely it must be so eternally and universally ? |
| 15 | And it certainly does not explain why those spaces of cultural criticism that the left does control — in the ‘ core ’ journals — should be so critically and politically inarticulate . |
| 16 | You can do things and be so upfront and so ahead that nobody can appreciate it . |
| 17 | And all of them were astonished that the most glamorous member of the Royal Family could be so suddenly and publicly brought down to earth . |
| 18 | Not easy for us , was what she 'd been warning me , being so near and yet so far , so tantalizingly inaccessible to each other . |
| 19 | It was n't a case of missing sitters and throwing away chances more of being so near and yet so far . |
| 20 | It 's right back to the Stamp Acts which were so bitterly and rightly resisted in the early part of the 19th century . ’ |
| 21 | His surroundings were so suddenly and so totally novel . |
| 22 | Both of them were so beautifully and evenly brown that clothes seemed superfluous . |
| 23 | It is perfectly clear to me and fellow Councillors that a report which is so badly and which so badly uses statistics , can not be received because it is not of sufficient quality for this County Council and support the District Council to use it . |
| 24 | It is in domestic architecture that Ostia provides the most interesting revelations for here are astonishingly well preserved remains of insulae , the tenement blocks which must have been constructed in quantity in Rome itself and , since Ostia is so near and as it had such close association with the capital , probably of a very similar character . |
| 25 | This may be partly because Palin is so patently and so very likeable , and , whatever his private doubts , always looks as though he believes every word . |
| 26 | It is not surprising that this denunciation is so regularly and vehemently levelled by Americans , especially bourgeois ‘ children of capitalism ’ , who have evidently commendably sensitive consciences . |
| 27 | It is this sharing in the suffering of God that is so convincingly and magnificently expressed in Margaret Spufford 's recent book , Celebration . |
| 28 | Normal speech is so rapidly and informally articulated that there are seldom pauses between the words ( this may be verified from the waveform of the speech signal ) . |
| 29 | Third , the analysis of homophobia demands both the psychoanalytic and materialist perspectives , not least because , as this letter suggests , it is so obviously and inseparably both a psychic and social phenomenon . |
| 30 | It 's so persuasively and convincingly argued — especially for those of us most happy to be convinced — that it 's a trifle dampening to be reminded that these are ‘ image patterns whose sexual significance may have been hidden from the poet on a conscious level … . |