Example sentences of "[be] [conj] so many " in BNC.

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1 Well personally , I 'd like to go to Lakeside , er , cos I 've never been and so many people have been I do n't . .
2 One reason for this relative neglect may be that so many earlier surveys gave such clear and unequivocal results : at virtually every stage of education , by virtually every criterion of achievement , middle-class children had higher levels of achievement than working-class children .
3 The great thing about tea drinking is that so many varieties are available that you can always find a brew that is appropriate to the occasion .
4 IT is seldom remarked how curious it is that so many people need to find a meaning to life .
5 One good result so far , though , is that so many people were mystified by acronyms being bandied about ( SNUPPS , NII , AGR and the like ) that the secretariat for the inquiry had to produce a list of them .
6 I have heard of considerably larger numbers being taken by other people but when I hear such tales I am inclined to wonder how it is that so many can become so jammed together without suffocating in such a small hole .
7 The other is that so many jobs are likely to need a great deal of capital equipment behind them that there will be a shortage of capital equipment and jobs will therefore not be created quickly enough to maintain full employment .
8 But the worst aspect of this whole affair is that so many people do not care about the quality of life for old people .
9 For Irish rugby , the problem is that so many play gaelic football .
10 But what is more remarkable is that so many farmers were sentimental ( and some impecunious ) enough to keep their hedgerows in for so long .
11 What is perhaps most startling is that so many agents of educational change — local education officers and education committees — remained so untouched by the principles .
12 This is because so many instinctual demands which will later be unserviceable can not be suppressed by that rational operation of the child 's intellect but have to be tamed by acts of repression behind which , as a rule , lies the motive of anxiety .
13 Perhaps it 's because so many people are opting not to bother .
14 But none of the Oxford goal scorers are actually in the national charts , but we were saying it 's because so many of them are scoring , Foyle , Magilton , Nogan , Simpson and Stein — all have scored seven or more .
15 It is difficult for us now to understand how it was that so many serious thinkers in those days were prophetically-minded .
16 ( The trouble with that was that so many All Blacks and Springboks and older British Internationals were at the University he would be better advised to wait a year or two . )
17 As Brian Harrison has remarked , one of the main reasons for the bitterness of the suffrage struggle was that so many on both sides had roots in the philanthropic world .
18 the worst aspect of Leatherslade farm was that so many took their gloves off .
19 This was because so many other companies were moving into the area and the demand for property grew .
20 This was because so many of the non-SERC students had been sponsored/seconded onto IT Advanced Courses by an educational employer , typically a university or polytechnic .
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