Example sentences of "it [modal v] [verb] [be] so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was and yet , I 'm losing my thread with , what I was going to say was , it must 've been so important because an in that you could get anything you liked . |
| 2 | It must have been so embarrassing . |
| 3 | It would have been so easy and commonplace to move into some bushes ; but my partner insisted that I light my second candle . |
| 4 | It would have been so easy to spend a couple of weeks lazing by one of the swimming pools doing absolutely nothing in this idyllic setting , but there was so much going on that I was tempted off my sunlounger . |
| 5 | Well , I think it is high time that we gave an award for valour in professional conduct , and I nominate as the first recipient , Keith Holdsworth of Bournemouth , Employed by the New Forest District Council , Keith Holdsworth risked his career , his livelihood and his life savings in the defence of his professional integrity , when it would have been so easy to take an easier route . |
| 6 | As a doctor it would have been so easy , and that very easiness , not her by now nominal Catholicism , had held her back , temporarily , from what she knew would be inevitable one day … before she was forty . |
| 7 | But when Baby came she thought if it was a Nigerian boy it would have been so easy . |
| 8 | I realised , perhaps more than most , that it would have been so easy to become absorbed and involved with the boat to the extent of the customs work taking second place . |
| 9 | It would have been so easy to have the chimney-sweep around . |
| 10 | It would have been so good to just sit there and let Luke hold her , to draw comfort from his strength , but how could she do that when he was supposedly in league with the man who had done that to her house ? |
| 11 | I became even more thankful that I 'd had a normal birth as it would have been so hard to cope after a repeat section . |
| 12 | ‘ But I had to go : it would have been so wet to have said no . ’ |