Example sentences of "are so [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Of course , you may have one of the new stacking systems that are so confident vinyl will not figure in your life that they neglect to include a phono point to plug in a turntable .
2 Nonetheless it fits in beautifully with the black and white timber-framed houses and cottages which are so much part of the county .
3 Deer are so much part of our hill heritage it is worth knowing a little about them .
4 And of course nowadays there 's so much er things that er we use , there are so much labour saving things now that which makes a big difference .
5 The new bosses are so lower class , so uncouth , such vulgarians — ’ Davide would put a finger across his lips , but without emphasis , for he loved to hear her anger , it healed his own affliction , the binding fatigue which came over him when he contemplated his work , and made his legs drag across the shiny floors in the clanging corridors of the new Law Courts , Town Hall and Police Headquarters in booming Riba , concrete inside , dead white marble outside , sprouting confident towers of glass and statuary of muscular naked giants , Order clubbing Chaos , Force cracking Cowardice 's skull underfoot .
6 It took him all day to find addresses and write the envelopes , as there are so many agony aunts in national newspapers , teenage and women 's magazines .
7 Perhaps because there are so many bell towers in England ( 5,205 , compared with 167 in Wales and 15 in Scotland ) , not to mention about 40,000 ringers , bell-ringing is a peculiarly English institution .
8 And you ca n't do anything about it , because there are so few security firms ; they have a monopoly and they do n't give a shit . ’
9 There are so few hospital beds available that health authorities plan to set up emergency treatment centres in football stadiums .
10 If the Manic Street Preachers are so Jonathan-Kinging radical why do n't they go round Channel 4 and kick Terry Christian 's smug , ugly , homophobic face in and then cut Amanda De Torybimbo 's Barbie-doll head off with a rusty cake slice ?
11 But in smaller leks the favourite residents are so busy mating that their satellites succeed in attracting waiting females and mate with them .
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