Example sentences of "be so [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , she did n't admire Simon — the way she admires Michel now ; I can see how much she does , that 's why I am so for it . |
| 2 | I am so in agreement … that I feel quite emotional . |
| 3 | It is precisely because I am so in favour of family planning — of women ( and men ) planning their own families — that I am so supicious of any population policy that attempts to do anything but help them have the number of children they think is best for them . |
| 4 | It is precisely because I am so in favour of family planning — of women ( and men ) planning their own families — that I am so supicious of any population policy that attempts to do anything but help them have the number of children they think is best for them . |
| 5 | ‘ Most wedding rings are plain or , if engraved , are so on the inside . |
| 6 | They are so for robbers too . |
| 7 | There are so beyond seven thirty , though . |
| 8 | The drawings bore Latin inscriptions — ‘ Day of Resurrection ’ , ‘ Day of Wrath ’ — that are so unlike any of the rest of his works that they have been largely ignored , and sell for far less than any other of Modigliani 's works . |
| 9 | ‘ God and the King ’ , he proclaimed , ‘ are so in a league … as one can not be enemy to the one , but that he must be to the other . |
| 10 | Then she said , still with her back turned , ‘ Have you any idea , Robina , why your parents are so against you going on the stage ? ’ |
| 11 | Players often ask why teaching professionals are so against using the wedge . |
| 12 | In some parts of the country , local authorities are so behind that searches are taking two months or more . |
| 13 | When newly awakened from lively dreams , we are so near them , still agitated by them , still in their sphere — give us one syllable , one feature , one hint , and we should repossess the whole ; hours of this strange entertainment would come trooping back to us ; but we can not get our hand on the first link or fibre , and the whole is lost . |
| 14 | As the chairman of the Joint Committee on Higher Surgical Training has indicated , appointment committees are reluctant to appoint anyone over the age of 35 for fear that they are so near the age of 40 that they will be unable to obtain a consultant post and will linger , blocking their senior registrar post . |
| 15 | They are so like the television it 's sometimes hard to see why they are being done on a stage . |
| 16 | The whole style of the Jersey is dainty , aristocratic and almost deerlike and very few of the world 's cattle have this quality or have calves that are so like fawns . |
| 17 | Investigations by S. E. Winbolt showed that the first two had small rectangular enclosures of about three acres and these are so like the burgi on Watling Street that it is not impossible that they represent part of the fortified system established by Constantius Chlorus , although the dating evidence indicates an earlier origin . |
| 18 | The heads of these charming horsemen are so like that of the boxer that one might think his was the stele this base supported . |
| 19 | Catering that had been so under threat in the later seventies suddenly attracted new importance ; indeed , the single Manchester Pullman that looked almost certain to be a casualty of further standardisation in the eighties was joined by a bevy of Pullmans if only Pullman service on HSTs and Mark 3s . |
| 20 | The main thrust of all the writings was to show that Bonapartism was for France the natural system of government and that it had been so since the Revolution . |
| 21 | Clearly , vertical arrangements take a variety of forms , and they are an important feature of industrial society , indeed have been so since the Industrial Revolution . |
| 22 | And it had been so since the day that she had turned to leave Sycorax at the hot springs . |
| 23 | Partisan nomination of senior judges used to be the rule in Britain but has not really been so since the 1920s . |
| 24 | No doubt it would have been so to Descartes , Malebranche , and Locke : they might have agreed with Berkeley that what we perceive are ideas . |
| 25 | But it would hardly have been so to the ‘ vulgar ’ . |
| 26 | This had not been so with the earliest stages as drawn in The German Ideology or Formen because even here Marx talks of ‘ slavery being inherent in the family ’ and the universality of class relations . |
| 27 | It always has been so with me , and will be . |
| 28 | Sister Cas. was not often bloodyminded , and this was the first time she had been so with me . |
| 29 | This has been so for centuries , and afflicts all nations . |
| 30 | Telepathic communication , for us still the domain of science fiction or fringe experimentation , may be part of a dolphin 's daily life , and may have been so for centuries . |