Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] be so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They used to try to be so posh . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This flow chart is fairly complete ; not every petrographic study will need to be so thorough , but particular paths are easily selected . |
| 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 | For such changes to be successful , they would need to be so large that they would undermine price stability in the Community . |
| 7 | ‘ I ca n't think why you appear to be so preoccupied with that girl . ’ |
| 8 | Those changes appear to be so great that they will certainly still be affecting readers of this text in the 1990s . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | some women do and I 'm not quite clear that it has to be so definite as as er |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | One has to be so careful . |
| 14 | It has to be so organised , as a learner-centred activity , that it sensitises the participant to cultural differences . |
| 15 | I want to be so unpleasant that he gets no pleasure from having me . |
| 16 | Michèe Barrett refers in her essay to the ‘ turn to culture ’ in recent feminist work , and Griselda Pollock 's long essay in the volume Painting , Feminism , History gives us some idea of why culture ( in this case the visual arts ) has come to be so central . |
| 17 | How does theology stand vis-à-vis other disciplines , such as the natural sciences , which have come to be so important and successful with the passing centuries ? |
| 18 | Who would have thought , with all this talk of millions to be made by gene juggling , that just a few years ago genetic engineering was considered to be so dangerous that one small accident could unleash upon the world a virulent plague that would make the black death look like an outbreak of summer flu ? |
| 19 | These are individuals whose behaviour is considered to be so outrageous as to fall completely outside the range of actions based on reasons and causes . |
| 20 | Indeed , they are often considered to be so routine that they are taken to be ‘ normal ’ . |
| 21 | " But why was this particular spot found to be so favourable ? " |
| 22 | In conclusion , joint problem-solving and the consultative sharing of expertise can maximise scarce existing resources and increase the capacity of teachers to meet the individual needs of all children ; stimulate teachers ' personal judgment and initiative as to the best educational ‘ therapies ’ open to them , raise their sights as to how to help all children , whatever their difficulties , to learn and to cope , how to offer them those ‘ good school experiences such as some form of success , accomplishment , sense of self-esteem or just pleasure in school activities ’ found to be so valuable even in later life ( cf Quinton and Rutter 1988 ) . |
| 23 | This is shown by prices in the " grey market " which are often reported to be so low as to negate all of the gross fees , thus absorbing all of the underwriters ' risk premium . |
| 24 | He spoke to them and persuaded them with his books and his paintings , through radio and television , by his speeches and his straightforward and trenchant statements to the press about the issues he believed to be so crucial for the welfare of the world . |
| 25 | At one point , early on , this kid was counting out money and saying something like , you have n't got a choice there and if you do n't like it you can shop around , when we said , in a voice I 'd never heard before , a voice that no longer pretended to be nice , a voice that expressed all the effort of pretending to be so nice for so long . |
| 26 | ‘ I think you want exactly the same things she does , but you hide behind the pillars of your ice palace , pretending to be so unapproachable . |
| 27 | Pretending to be so butter-wouldn't-melt , and then to slide this in — the sharp kick on the ankle in passing . |
| 28 | But I do n't like the way you 're pretending to be so fond of me , ’ she told him , her hazel eyes flashing and her arms akimbo , ‘ and I do n't like the way we 're deceiving your mother . ’ |
| 29 | The poignancy of the situation is increased because love and longing themselves are felt to be so close to aggression . |
| 30 | Indeed , the idea that women might take control of their desire to the point where men come to be judged as objects of pleasure is felt to be so threatening as to be tabooed . |