Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [noun] is so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martin Kettle wonders if Thatcher is so wrong about political union |
| 2 | And I do think that sex is so private it 's almost impossible to write about . |
| 3 | You might think that E is so important to you that it 's ten , and that 's quite alright you can do that . |
| 4 | Does Mr Evans-Pritchard think that torture is so rare in Guatemala that her story is an improbable concoction ? |
| 5 | Parents are moved because childhood is so swift and vanishing . |
| 6 | But tests have shown that Actomite is so effective that after treatment the House Dust Mite population is significantly reduced for up to three months . |
| 7 | The product is needed because Tuxedo is so hard to programme , and interfaces have previously had to be written using C. Accell/TP allows you to get to the functionality of Tuxedo using procedure calls . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ I know what you said , Steve , ’ she said , stretching herself in the passenger seat , ‘ but I 've got nothing better to do and Palma is so hot and stuffy . ’ |
| 11 | There is a weak sense of ‘ learning ’ in which the student is taught or the student reads that x is so and so . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | Tests would show that the student can recall that x is so and so , can write it down and can repeat it orally . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This stress on words is interesting , since Pseudo-Ulpian goes on to say that intention is so important in trusts . |
| 17 | When Jack and Alick , after being shipwrecked and narrowly escaping murder , starvation and sundry other perils , are reunited with Terence on board a brig-of-war , he declares it is worth being lost when reunion is so pleasant and ends with a flourish : ‘ Old fellows , I knew you would come back somehow or other ; I always said so ; astride of a dolphin , if in no other way … ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |