Example sentences of "so [adj] about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was trying to ask what was so specific about the period of 16 months . |
| 2 | While acknowledging the murky depths of the recession in Scotland , he asked his audience of publicans and drink suppliers : ‘ Why are all you guys so glum-faced about the state of the economy ? |
| 3 | Such is the loving care which has gone into past history , it seems a pity that the authors are so hesitant about the future . |
| 4 | David was so upset about the prospect of going to a day centre that when the ambulance arrived he had uncharacteristic temper tantrums on the doorstep . |
| 5 | WHY is everyone so upset about the BBC 's Eldorado ? |
| 6 | Oh , we 'd felt like this for years but we would n't acknowledge it , and then we started meeting casually and standing talking for ages , but it was only when I met him and he was so upset about the baby and — and other things . |
| 7 | ‘ What 's so awful about the Hörst Wessel Song ? |
| 8 | What was so awful about the letters ? |
| 9 | And secondly I am so sorry about the terrible thing that happened yesterday morning . |
| 10 | Happy May Day , and I 'm so sorry about the muddle with the draft I 've enquired at the head office of the Bank of Scotland , where I got it made out , and they seemed to think your Brno bank was being a bit dim , or perhaps even obstructionist , in telling you they could n't deal with it and that you 'd have to go to Prague to get it cashed . |
| 11 | Lying close by his side in the carved and canopied bed , her head on his chest , she whispered , ‘ I 'm so sorry about the ring . |
| 12 | So much sociological theory seems to be about a world entirely in the realm of the head , or the mind , and so little about a world of bodily states of feeling and action . |
| 13 | Many researchers fail to make the best possible use of libraries simply because they know so little about the bibliographical tools that are available to help them . |
| 14 | AS I HAVE not attended a Booksellers Association conference since Eastbourne 1987 , I was surprised by the fact that the 1993 conference was somewhat inward-looking and said so little about the consumer . |
| 15 | ‘ But see , I 've talked enough already , and you still know so little about the scheme itself . |
| 16 | London , meditated Dexter — so many people crammed together , yet knowing so little about the others standing only a few feet away . |
| 17 | He knew so little about the serf question that at first he thought it involved no more than granting the peasants their personal freedom . |
| 18 | A friend asked the executive what he found so absorbing about the man 's performance . |
| 19 | At times I become so obsessive about the dangers that I find myself making lists of what could go wrong . |
| 20 | ‘ What 's so funny about a row of gigot chops ? ’ he asked the two laughing girls outside his window . |
| 21 | I probably did n't help my cause by being so self-conscious about the whole exercise that I decided to station myself behind a bush . |
| 22 | To understand why Jews should be so possessive about a collective tragedy which touched many others , it is necessary to remember that this was mass murder specifically designed for Jews in which others were caught . |
| 23 | I do n't know why I feel so possessive about the damned things . |
| 24 | I 'm not so bothered about the windows so much cos if they break someone 's bound to hear them smash . |
| 25 | I 'm not so bothered about the leaf stem . |
| 26 | I remembered this when one of my daughters asked how I could be so apathetic about the world and its problems . |
| 27 | But why should Oxford be so coy about a man who may turn out to be one of its most distinguished alumni ? |
| 28 | The Labour party has become ever so coy about the details of its renationalisation plans . |
| 29 | Then he is so benevolent , so good tempered and cheerful , and , like William , interests himself so much about every little trifle . |
| 30 | In a different mood , Edgar Allan Poe 's The Descent into the Maelstrom grips the throat by being not so much about a giant whirlpool but human fear , again breaking the editor 's rule . |