Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] be so [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pain which followed immediately was so sudden and so extreme that it went beyond feeling . |
| 2 | If the theory that DNA and its copying machinery arose spontaneously is so improbable that it obliges us to assume that life is very rare in the universe , and may even be unique to Earth , our first resort is to try to find a more probable theory . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd just like to look , ’ he said , and the picture he conjured up was so vivid that she felt heat rising to her face . |
| 4 | It had all been so flimsy that Pascoe had hesitated about presenting it to Dalziel . |
| 5 | Sara wished she had not been so petty when Fairfax had called , and had let him go on thinking it was Matthew 's old family house . |
| 6 | Rosa would have envied Mary her powers of passion , the open expression of her grief and her love , if she had not been so certain that the Madonna was entirely on her side . |
| 7 | If she had not been so fit as she is then I am convinced that she would have died . |
| 8 | As Gillespie remarks , even in Edinburgh , the craft unions were able to see to it that only union men worked Linotypes , and " by the end of the century , it was generally agreed that the effect of machines on employment had not been so bad as feared " . |
| 9 | If her eyes had not been so bright and alert , she could have been mistaken for a corpse . |
| 10 | Rufus stubbed out his second cigarette , put the paper into his briefcase and slung over his shoulders the marvellous black leather coat from Beltrami he had bought in Florence , which would have made him look like a gangster if he had not been so fair and ruddy-faced and with such blue , English eyes . |
| 11 | So , slowly , Creggan came to learn the routine and the lore of the Zoo and , without realizing it , to let his world , which had once been so wide and full of hope and freedom , close in and grow small ; a place in which the trivial things like the way Woil talked to the Men , or where the vultures were , were more important than flight , freedom , the sky and the winds they were banned from . |
| 12 | Which you would have done in the first place , Lowell thought , if you had n't been so sure that Rose was here . |
| 13 | If she had n't been so irritable and on edge , Camille might have been flattered by this notion . |
| 14 | ‘ She had very serious abdominal wounds and one doctor told me she would have died if she had n't been so young and healthy , ’ said Mr Kelly . |
| 15 | The Empress had ordered her to do whatever was necessary in order to leave with fitzAlan , and if she had n't been so angry and confused that she had forgotten the threat to Edmund she would have complied . |
| 16 | If I had n't been so besotted and obsessed to the point of madness I 'd have called the whole thing off ! ’ |
| 17 | If his father had n't been so bloody-minded and had let him use the family car , he would no doubt have gone down alone and come back next day , having called on some estate agent in Hadleigh or Sudbury and asked them to sell the house for him , the very one probably that he had gone to in the following year . |
| 18 | Miss Fogerty had never been so happy as she was now , living with Dorothy and next door to another old friend , Isobel Shoosmith , who had been at college with her years before . |
| 19 | Tess had never been so happy as she was now , and perhaps never would be so again . |