Example sentences of "so [adj] [subord] [pron] is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , I love her , she 's a sweet girl and she 's had a raw deal , and I have to admit , it makes one feel so good when one is needed . ’ |
| 2 | He comforted himself with the saying of Uncle Jan — ‘ the devil is never so black as he is painted ’ — and dreamed of what he might accomplish in the company of such a woman , in collaboration with her soft femaleness . |
| 3 | John Lennon 's ‘ Imagine ’ , so powerful when one is listening to it , may afterwards be quite easily broken down into fairly disparate elements : radical text ; rock-ballad melody , harmony and orchestration ; singer-songwriter ( ‘ confessional ’ ) piano ; soul/gospel-tinged singing . |
| 4 | This is so unexpected when it is encountered for the first time that it feels like a deliberate deception . |
| 5 | By dropping the novel and other kinds of drama , more time would be provided for the extensive reading of poetry which is so essential if one is to make sense of any one poem . |
| 6 | How can the Prime Minister be so complacent and so indolent when he is receiving advice that something now needs to be done ? |
| 7 | Probably the adoption of the Gothic style for church schools is not so surprising when it is considered that the design of schools was a subject in which the influential Ecclesiological Society — the significant impact of whose views on church design has already been referred to — was prepared to interest itself . |