Example sentences of "[verb] to [be] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Gaskell , writing to an American friend in 1860 , certainly thought that those in Streatham Street were not designed to be so : ‘ There is but one sink & c for every floor ; the fireplaces were the poorest kind of parlour grate , over or by which there was not the least [ hope ] of cooking ; there was not a peg , a shelf , or a cupboard , or even a recess in which one might be cheaply made . ’ |
| 2 | The resultant online , interactive database is designed to be so easy to use that after a few minutes practice even novices can make very sophisticated searches and will have nearly instantaneous access to a vast storehouse of information hitherto accessible only after tedious , time-consuming and costly searches through individual issues . |
| 3 | They used to try to be so posh . |
| 4 | Section 682 provides that income arising under a settlement shall be deemed not to have been distributed if and to the extent that it exceeds the aggregate of : ( i ) the sums , excluding all payments of interest , paid in that year by the trustees of the settlement to any persons ( not being a body corporate connected with the settlement and not being the trustees of another settlement made by the settlor or the trustees of the settlement ) in such manner that they fall to be treated in that year , otherwise than by virtue of s677 above , as the income of those persons for the purposes of income tax , or would fall to be so treated if those persons were domiciled , resident and ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and the sums had been paid to them there ; and ( ii ) subject to s682(2)– ( 5 ) ( rules for ascertaining undistributed income where interest is paid by trustees ) any expenses of the trustees of the settlement paid in that year which , in the absence of any express provision of the settlement , would be properly chargeable to income , in so far as such expenses are not included in the sums mentioned in para ( i ) above ; and ( iii ) in a case where the trustees of the settlement are trustees for charitable purposes , the amount by which any income arising under the settlement in that year in respect of which exemption from tax may be granted under s505 of TA 1988 exceeds the aggregate amount of any such sums or expenses as aforesaid paid in that year which are properly chargeable to that income . |
| 5 | In this supporting role your Orc units do n't need to be so large and there is less need to provide standards or characters . |
| 6 | It 's tempting to consider bottle-feeding instead , as babies take longer to digest formula milk , so feeds do n't need to be so frequent . |
| 7 | This flow chart is fairly complete ; not every petrographic study will need to be so thorough , but particular paths are easily selected . |
| 8 | For such changes to be successful , they would need to be so large that they would undermine price stability in the Community . |
| 9 | During the summer months , the times of reproduction , there is ample food available to sustain the increased need , but when winter comes not only does food cease to be so readily available here , there and everywhere but the intake itself has to be much more varied . |
| 10 | So goods once stolen cease to be so on restoration . |
| 11 | Man 's part is simply to prepare his heart continually by ridding his will of foreign attachments , his reason of anxieties , and his memory of idle or absorbing business — even though that business appear to be so very necessary . |
| 12 | Those changes appear to be so great that they will certainly still be affecting readers of this text in the 1990s . |
| 13 | ‘ I ca n't think why you appear to be so preoccupied with that girl . ’ |
| 14 | Even though the gap between clerical and lay religious intellectuals has closed , with clergy being left behind in some areas , the clerics remain the true cognoscenti in religious matters , and are expected to be so by the laity . |
| 15 | The intensity of reaction is normally very much less in these cases than after a severe loss such as bereavement but , even so , people can be surprised by their lethargy , sadness , even depression and bursts of irritation , which disturb what was expected to be so happy . |
| 16 | He felt a childish satisfaction in having that advantage on one who had claimed to be so well informed on such matters . |
| 17 | After a competition to create a centre-piece for the Universal Exhibition of 1889 , Eiffel 's design was selected in the face of intense opposition from Pierre-Emmanuel Tirard , then Prime Minister , Charles Garnier , architect of the Opera , the composer Gounod , writers Leconte de Lisle and Guy de Maupassant ( the last claimed to be so upset by it that he fled France ) , and more than 40 other national figures . |
| 18 | The dance has to be so arranged that the mistake must appear accidental . |
| 19 | There is really no such thing , I think , as a perfect politician 's wife , because she has to be so many things , and yet nothing at the same time . |
| 20 | However , it has to be so used with great care , and preferably only by trained and professional medical advisers . |
| 21 | some women do and I 'm not quite clear that it has to be so definite as as er |
| 22 | If the subordinate has to be so elaborately controlled the supervisor might just as well undertake the task . |
| 23 | If this is my last word on the subject , I 'm sorry it has to be so close to bathos , but that 's how I feel . |
| 24 | It has to be so organised , as a learner-centred activity , that it sensitises the participant to cultural differences . |
| 25 | That has to be so . ’ |
| 26 | This has to be so otherwise no one would be willing to buy old bonds . |
| 27 | One has to be so careful . |
| 28 | I want to be so unpleasant that he gets no pleasure from having me . |
| 29 | I want to be so many things in your life — your lover , your husband , the father of your children . ’ |
| 30 | They all want to be so he went off to be a computer scientist and either he was too interested in er what he describes as cult television which you think |