Example sentences of "be so [adj] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found this section , number three , of particular interest because surely it 's dealing with the very kernel of our relationship to what we call in language that ought to be so real and preserved from romanticism , the body of Christ membership limbhood branchship , whatever you want to call it , if whether you take your figure from John fifteen or from the Apostle . |
| 2 | I did n't know a lad could be so black and blue … . |
| 3 | Well I would , I would , I would just comment that there er in profits have er have it does n't mean to say that we wo n't have some profits from our estate at Thurrock because there are other areas of land involved , but they wo n't be so substantial and for B-Sky-B I would turn to Frank . |
| 4 | Yet you can be so warm and gentle . ’ |
| 5 | How can the Prime Minister be so complacent and so indolent when he is receiving advice that something now needs to be done ? |
| 6 | Some will be so distant or insignificant that whether one believes them or their opposite would have no effect on what one believes here . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Amazing how someone can appear to be so confident and clear-headed on the outside , while — Moira is an excellent nurse , quite capable of hiding her real self when she needs to . |
| 9 | ‘ It seemed such a pity your room should be so dark and cold , Mr Stevens , when it 's such bright sunshine outside . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The inherent uncertainties of future public acquisitions — no plan can be so definite and inflexible as to determine which sites will ( or might ) be needed in the future for public purposes — made this distinction appear arbitrary and unjust . |
| 12 | Declaring it a dangerous precedent , they sought letters patent assuring them that it would not be so used and letters of indemnity for not following the king overseas on campaign . |
| 13 | He could walk out and just be so good and that is probably the thing that most impressed me about him . |
| 14 | ‘ How can an athlete train and prepare so well and be so good and take so long to recover ? |
| 15 | How can an athlete train so well , be so good and take so long to recover ? |
| 16 | I wanted to meet Marius Durance — I 've always especially admired his work and it seemed crazy to be so close and not come face to face with him . |
| 17 | It was ludicrous to be so young and yet a has-been . |
| 18 | But we can not afford to be so self-indulgent and dismissive . |
| 19 | It showed me that d-i-y decorating and repairs need not always be so technical and difficult — and you do n't have to be a big strapping man to do d-i-y . |
| 20 | ‘ His memory seemed to me to be so defective and selective as to make his evidence worthless . ’ |
| 21 | How could his kidnappers be so cruel and not explain their reasons why ? |
| 22 | It 's sad to have to be so cynical but if the price of safety is walking around with your eyes lowered and avoiding potentially dangerous situations , such as lifts home with near strangers , it has to be done . |
| 23 | ‘ Norman Campbell , why must you always be so cynical and spoil things for the child ? ’ |
| 24 | Similarly a God derived from mankind 's need and not from ancient superstitions , can be so developed and adapted to the changing requirements of ever-advancing life , that there will be no danger of destroying the associated religion or of weakening its appeal . |
| 25 | You were not wont to be so loud and bold . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ After all , both study life in communities , though the novelist need not be so accurate or bother with statistics and kinship tables . |
| 27 | But it 's all for the rest of my life , an important fact for me , and to say , OK , I do n't need it any more , it has to be a very strong and bad change inside Kirov , I will be so upset or so unoptimistic or so helpless that I will feel I can not do anything more . |
| 28 | The thought of entering the disaster area of an elderly widow 's grief and shouldering some of the responsibility for helping her to bear it , and to rebuild what is left of her life , is enough to create feelings of anxiety in anyone ; and admittedly this can be a very difficult assignment , for not only will you be well aware that you are unable to give her the one thing she really wants — the return of her husband — but you will feel , as we all do when faced with the bereaved , that their personality seems suddenly to have been crushed like a flower under the heel of a vandal , showing it to be so fragile and vulnerable that almost any attempt to revive it would seem to be doomed to failure . |
| 29 | There 's a site to which this Society objected on Wetherby Road in Harrogate which we thought did n't need developing at all , but in practice the District Council decided they wanted it for industry because it considered the need for industry to be so great and we have along this frontage of Wetherby Road a row of three car showrooms and a token spot of industry behind it . |
| 30 | How dared he be so cool and confident , casually spooning powdered milk into the mugs , and stirring slowly , as if each task merited the utmost care and attention ? |