Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] be so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a site to which this Society objected on Wetherby Road in Harrogate which we thought did n't need developing at all , but in practice the District Council decided they wanted it for industry because it considered the need for industry to be so great and we have along this frontage of Wetherby Road a row of three car showrooms and a token spot of industry behind it . |
| 2 | And also he doubted whether she had the intelligence to be so devious . |
| 3 | A person who has been admitted as a solicitor and whose name is on the roll shall , if he would not otherwise be taken to be acting as a solicitor , be taken for the purposes of this Act to be so acting [ and therefore being required to hold a practising certificate ] if he is employed in connection with the provision of any legal services ( a ) by any person who is qualified to act as a solicitor ; ( b ) by any partnership at least one member of which is so qualified ; or ( c ) by a body recognised by the Council of the Law Society under section 9 of the Administration of Justice Act 1985 ( incorporated practices ) . |
| 4 | But there does not seem to be any need for all those other galaxies , nor for the universe to be so uniform and similar in every direction on the large scale . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's unusual for a girl to be so good at the technical stuff , ’ he went on . |
| 6 | Was she a silly adolescent girl to be so confused and seduced by a handsome face ? a beautiful body ? |
| 7 | He felt that Woolley had no right to be so contemptuous , so damaging ; Killion alone could not have stopped a bombing raid ; besides , had n't he just destroyed two , maybe three of the enemy ? |
| 8 | ‘ And there 's no need to be so nervous . |
| 9 | ‘ So there 's no need to be so prickly … ’ |
| 10 | ‘ There 's no need to be so independent , ’ he said with mild reproof . |
| 11 | Aunt Emily said , There is no need to be so stiff , my dear . ’ |
| 12 | Late on 29 June 1690 , having so far evaded battle , he was ordered by the government to engage the enemy , being goaded into action by a message from the queen herself : ‘ We apprehend the consequences of your retiring to the Gunfleet to be so fatal , that we choose rather that you should , upon any advantage of the wind , give battle to the enemy . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Even now you still believe your body to be so irresistible that I must be hungering for it ? ’ |
| 14 | It had been foolishness to be so jealous . |
| 15 | The legal control of odours arising from sewage disposal works merits attention at this point in view of statement of Wills , J. in R. v Parlby that the proper course of action for a local authority complaining of odour nuisance from a sewage disposal works is to obtain leave to file an information in respect of a public nuisance in the name of the Attorney General , ‘ A great public officer , who will not lightly interfere himself , or allow his name to be so used ’ , and for an individual to bring an action for private nuisance . |
| 16 | If the explanation for the violent outburst lies in something which might understandably lead a person to be so angry as to lose self-control , then this supplies an added reason for mitigating the offence and the sentence . |
| 17 | Experience in present operation shows potentialities of twin mounted Bantams at night to be so tremendous to justify immediate allocation of minimum fifty Bantams to L repeat L Detachment for modification to be effected immediately on my return . |
| 18 | It 's not natural for a babby to be so quiet . ’ |
| 19 | Indeed , he believed his skull to be so exceptional that he willed that after his death it be given to a doctor for examination , but nineteenth century sentiment and regulations prevented this from being carried out . |
| 20 | She remembered the bride of one year , alight with the happiness of those early celebrations when the Grand Duke had granted the first liberties , and thought how strange it was for an English woman to be so mad with joy . |
| 21 | I always felt that it was typical of the Quakers ' practical Christianity to allow their building to be so used . |
| 22 | ‘ I never expected the first scrap to be so easy , ’ Callaghan said . |
| 23 | ‘ I never expected travelling on foot to be so arduous , ’ she said . |
| 24 | It was unfair for one man to be so attractive . |
| 25 | I think it is sad that in so many areas of life , we have allowed our society to be so fragmented . |
| 26 | This is sometimes a reflection of the belief that if sample results show the discharge to be so much beyond the consent limits then the pollution must be having some effect on the stream . |
| 27 | I shou 'd like a cloth one best if you please — I beg of your Sir to be so good as not to fail me this Cardinal by Wednesday , without fail , but let it be full yard long I beg , or else it will not do fail not on Wednesday , and in so doing you will very much oblige me . |
| 28 | ‘ You have no reason to be so suspicious of me , ’ she said quietly . |
| 29 | And I 'm sure I never gave her any reason to be so high-and-mighty ! ’ |
| 30 | In Masterson v. Holden for example , it was not shown against the homosexual couple in Oxford Street that they were actually aware of the presence of bystanders who were incensed at what the defendants were doing , even though they had every reason to be so aware . |