Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [is] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is why the responsibility of ( say ) looking after a small brother or sister is so valuable in enhancing the social awareness and maturity of the older boy or girl who is doing the substitute parenting . |
| 2 | Certainly general policies , such as those reproduced in part below , could have the effect not only of preventing but abating existing odour nuisance , the county council having recognised that in most cases where odour pollution causes problems , the source of the odour is either close to residential property or industry is so densely concentrated that the total odour emission is unacceptable . |
| 3 | However , the number of people who return to education once they have left school or college is so low that the age of finishing full-time education is often used as a simple indicator . |
| 4 | County Durham headteacher , Olwyn Gunn , a national executive member of the National Association of Schoolmasters and Union of Women Teachers , said : ‘ I really do n't know of any school where poverty is so bad that children are being treated like this . ’ |
| 5 | Furthermore , they were less inclined to state their position on conservation , a notoriously difficult subject to argue in Orkney where farmers are suspicious of attempts to limit their activities and where conservation is so closely associated with Orkney 's resident population of English romantics . |
| 6 | Repetition of the same or similar ground can be stopped by a gentle reminder , followed by asking why it is that a particular story or incident is so important . |
| 7 | But an experience of praise or reward is so striking and sweet that they work doubly hard to encounter such a state of affairs again . |
| 8 | It is sometimes supposed , more extremely , that direct acquaintance or introspection is so uncertain or fallible that not merely no analysis but nothing of value can be got by means of it . |
| 9 | It is because Britain will resist that idea in Malaysia that Whitehall is so anxious to build up a record of consultation , commitment and sympathy towards the majority in South Africa . |
| 10 | This stress on words is interesting , since Pseudo-Ulpian goes on to say that intention is so important in trusts . |
| 11 | She suspects that Charles suspects that she had once had an affair with Ivan , but of course she had not , though she concedes that Ivan is so unpleasant that only a degree of past sexual intimacy could plausibly explain the kind of relationship that he and Liz have over the years established . |
| 12 | Does Mr Evans-Pritchard think that torture is so rare in Guatemala that her story is an improbable concoction ? |
| 13 | The even strength of his fingers and his robust eloquence ( James Huneker would never have found the Scherzo from the B minor Sonata ‘ as light as a harebell ’ after this ! ) and assurance are often awe-inspiring ; few young pianists have found a more direct path to musical truth , or heeded Jorge Bolet 's adage that speed is so often the enemy of excitement . |
| 14 | I now see that Travis is so smitten that he would n't accept anything but that , meeting me for the first time when I called at your apartment , you at once became very much attracted to me . |
| 15 | I love the fact that England 's so close to the rest of Europe . |
| 16 | Before we beep we 'll go down in our car , bloody hell it 's three times smaller than Pete 's so I 'll get it in our bloody car |
| 17 | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern may also appear somewhat irrelevant characters ; but to Hamlet they are representatives of Claudius ' manipulative spy network ; heightening his belief that Claudius is so powerful he is impossible to beat . |
| 18 | The phrase does not indicate that Brahman does not exist , or that we know nothing about Brahman , but that we know that Brahman is so far beyond our understanding that anything we say will be misleading and therefore we must content ourselves with saying neti-neti . |
| 19 | If he , the Home Secretary feels that Wiltshire 's so badly funded next year , if he 's a caring and considerate Home Secretary , then he 'll put more money into Wiltshire and provide more police officers for Wiltshire . |
| 20 | LEGEND HAS it that Ashton-Under-Lyme is so grimy that all its flowers are permanently encrusted with soot . |
| 21 | LEGEND HAS it that Ashton-Under-Lyme is so grimy that all its flowers are permanently encrusted with soot . |
| 22 | There is a weak sense of ‘ learning ’ in which the student is taught or the student reads that x is so and so . |
| 23 | Tests would show that the student can recall that x is so and so , can write it down and can repeat it orally . |
| 24 | Safe , too , is John Birt , Hussey 's choice as director-general-designate , although morale is so low within news and current affairs at the BBC that rumours are circulating of a secret haven within ITN where ammunition is being collected from dissident BBC executives to try to blast Birt out . |
| 25 | It 's tempting to think that Windows is so carefully organized that you do n't have to understand much about these processes at all . |
| 26 | And I do think that sex is so private it 's almost impossible to write about . |
| 27 | As many have observed , the recognition that gender is so constructed implies that it can be altered . |
| 28 | There is a blood poison in America ; you can idealize the place ( easier now that Europe is so damd shaky ) all you like , but you have n't a drop off the cursed blood in you , and you do n't need to fight the disease day and night ; you never had to . |
| 29 | ‘ I think that people ought to be upset , ’ he wrote ; ‘ I think that life is so important and , in its workings , so upsetting that nobody should be spared . ’ |
| 30 | At opposite extremes are the ‘ seamless web of learning ’ party who would appear to argue that integration is so noble in itself that it should be undertaken whether teachers can handle it or not , and the committed and dogmatic subject specialist with a bookful of behavioural objectives and forty pages of sequenced syllabus to back them up . |