Example sentences of "of these [noun] be so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly they talk of other gods , but the nature of these gods is so different from that of the god whom Jews and Moslems are to follow that we might be tempted to deny that these others are gods at all . |
| 2 | This combination of a strictly limited set of measures , and their application only to new housing , goes a very long way to explaining why public ignorance of these matters is so widespread in Britain . |
| 3 | I wrote back saying , get on with it , and incidentally we overestimated the shipment cost , brought it down to about half , got to be awfully careful there , because some of these bits are so big , they , and today he said , customer will make decision only after ten days , since final size of assortment is under preparation , meantime with your offered price and revised delivery time , it looks very difficult to book this order . |
| 4 | Each of these assumptions is so questionable as to put the onus of proof very heavily on the trade unions . |
| 5 | One shows drapery-folds stacked in a way , based on observation , that becomes regular in Greek art around the middle of the second half of the century , but it is almost impossible to believe that the original date of these carvings is so late . |
| 6 | ‘ Some of these councillors are so thick ! ’ said the woman . |
| 7 | Yes that seems to me to fit that sort of bill , erm to be quite honest I would prefer that we base the promises on a previous paper that T six six one , er you know , sort of er typical success of the fact looking forward cos at least erm that 's not so erm , you know , sort of difficult to erm you know achieve as erm sort of repairing potholes within , when you consider that the reason that the potholes do n't get mended is because government legislation has it that we have to actually erm have lines painted all round them , so that they can be part of the package of er road mending in many cases , I mean urgently erm difficult ones are not that common er so I think that perhaps some of these promises are so difficult because it gives with one hand and takes back with the other , you know , it says we promise , but , I , I would say that 's not much of a promise , you say I promise to erm , you know , erm merge , I forgot about , but if it said but , you know , if it rains I wo n't tell you , er it would be very sad |
| 8 | In Bettelheim 's search for material that would give ‘ access to deeper meaning ’ ( 1976 , p.4 ) he found currently-available children 's books ( in the 1970s ) superficial : ‘ most of these books are so shallow in substance that little of significance can be gained from them ’ ( ibid . |
| 9 | The breadth of some of these banks is so great that they can not be attributed to marine erosion at low sea levels corresponding with glacial periods : the Nazareth bank near the Maldive Islands is about 350 km ( 220 miles ) long and reaches a maximum breadth of about 100 km ( 60 miles ) and lies almost uniformly at a depth of about 60 m ( 200 ft ) . |
| 10 | How persuasive the propaganda was is clear from the Latin war poems which even monks were then composing : some of these items were so popular that they found their way into school books for reading and glossing . |
| 11 | The examples of the behaviour of these men was so outrageous that it served as a warning to many people against this particular vice . |
| 12 | These cases can usually be rapidly identified and diagnosed using non-invasive techniques such as ultrasound or computed tomography , and since the prognosis of these patients is so poor , management shuld be directed towards symptomatic relief alone . |