Example sentences of "be [adv] so [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I do n't really need to be Just so long |
2 | The husband demurs only to tell his wife , in the form of a brief moral conclusion , to : … ne be namoore so large , Keep bet thy good … |
3 | I mean if the evaluation suggests that something or other needs changing , then you want people to be already so interested in the evaluation and perhaps looking for useful things to come out of it , that they are already half committed to the changes . |
4 | Er and therefore it is usually very good foot and leg work and the line of the body er but it 's not , it would n't be ever so good at agility , because it is concerned with holding , with holding your body weight from gravity . |
5 | But , you know , you ca n't , you might say well this teacher does n't have such good displays on her wall , but then she might be ever so good at another area , I mean is not a display lady , she does n't have artistic creative sort of flair like say Polly did |
6 | Me ma 'll be ever so pleased . |
7 | He who loves his dream of a community more than the Christian community itself becomes a destroyer of the latter , even though his personal intentions may be ever so honest and earnest and sacrificial . |
8 | Used to be ever so narrow . |
9 | And then they used to well it used to be ever so long , yards and yards of it and then we used to what they call drawing . |
10 | … let the organization of a canine animal become slightly plastic , which animal preyed chiefly on rabbits , but sometimes on hares ; let these same changes cause the number of rabbits very slowly to decrease and the number of hares to increase ; the effect of this would be that the fox or dog would be driven to try to catch more hares , and his numbers would tend to decrease ; his organization , however , being slightly plastic , those individuals with the lightest forms , longest limbs , and best eyesight ( though perhaps with less cunning or scent ) would be slightly favoured , let the difference be ever so small , and would tend to live longer and to survive during that time of the year when food was shortest ; they would also rear more young , which young would tend to inherit these slight peculiarities . |
11 | I have returned home feeling much better and of course , will be ever so grateful to the Association . |
12 | ‘ I 'd be ever so grateful . ’ |
13 | Under Chambers 's auspices I 've prepared a questionnaire on ( intermediate ) learners ' dictionaries , along with a piece of sample text and a batch of parallel extracts from four other publishers ' dictionaries of about the same level , and I 'd be ever so grateful if I could send you about 10 of these sets to distribute amongst fellow teachers and some of the students , as you think fit ; and of course I 'd be pleased if you 'd answer one yourself . |
14 | ‘ I 'd be ever so appreciative if you could , lass . |
15 | Yeah well that 'll be ever so handy , well you can try it ca n't you ? |
16 | Sue 'll be ever so hurt if I do n't go . |
17 | We have to be ever so particular that all of them are labelled and properly entered in the book . |
18 | Even now , five years later , I 've got to be ever so careful — because he feels it 's my money we live on . |
19 | ‘ I 'd be ever so careful , ’ Gedanken said . |
20 | He must n't be expected to make an effort when he does n't feel like it , he must n't risk being hemmed in or bored , but everyone has to be ever so careful of his feelings , poor sensitive soul , and when he wants a good fuck he comes to obliging loving little Ruth because he can relieve himself and have his morale boosted without having to do a damned thing about it but get himself into your bed . ’ |
21 | You 've got the to do it and th I 'll have to be ever so careful I 'm we wearing a . |
22 | ‘ It was settled in Philips v. Bury , in which determination the profession has ever since acquiesced , that this court has no other power than that of putting the visitatorial power in motion , ( if I may use the expression , ) but that if the judgment of the visitor be ever so erroneous , we can not interfere in order to correct it . |
23 | ‘ He'l ’ be ever so glad . |
24 | Oh they used to be ever so funny houses you know and in them days and The er you never used to see in the oh a lot of houses and you never used to see big windows like these . |
25 | I mean Adam 's lucky in that respect , I could n't smoke when I was pregnant , I , it made me feel sick , I could n't stand the smell of it , I had no urge to smoke at all , I went right off smoking , I respect , I was lucky , but I do feel sorry for these people that smoking at present cos it must be ever so hard . |
26 | She started to go , and then turned back , saying cheerily , " Just think how nice it will be when it 's all finished with , " and then she actually added , " Well , I must go and feed my puss-puss now , or she 'll be ever so cross . " |
27 | Was it possible for such a large amount of people as inhabited Athena Gardens to be genuinely so cheerful and contented ? |
28 | why have you got to be home so early then ? |
29 | Is one 's grip of things to be always so fickle ? |
30 | According to Eirwen Nichols , one of the authors of the report , ‘ It 's going to be technically so easy to offer them . |