Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] be so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I ca n't think why you appear to be so preoccupied with that girl . ’ |
| 2 | Those changes appear to be so great that they will certainly still be affecting readers of this text in the 1990s . |
| 3 | I want to be so unpleasant that he gets no pleasure from having me . |
| 4 | What we need to do is steal his thunder in some way so that he realises how pointless it would be to write a story or even make any of those veiled suggestions that reporters of his ilk seem to be so good at . ’ |
| 5 | Moreover , most of us seem to be so certain that a first edition is really a first edition . |
| 6 | And yet so many people are pleased with the way they manage to hide their emotions — to maintain that ‘ stiff upper lip ’ of which men in particular seem to be so proud . |
| 7 | Why do people seem to be so anti-gipsy to start out with ? |
| 8 | The main strength of the theory is that it directs attention to the entrepreneurial or innovative personalities who seem to be so important in the developmental process , but even here the theory does tend to ignore the inconsistencies and contradictions that are inherent in explanations based on individual characteristics . |
| 9 | Erm my Guild always say they 're lucky in having me because I 've come back and give them all the information and they seem to be so well-educated themselves now you know . |
| 10 | No wonder the BES assured tenancy schemes continue to be so popular . |
| 11 | I 'm not saying he would n't have become one without MainMan , but when you talk about MainMan , you have to be so definite — which part of MainMan and when . |
| 12 | Did the choice of alternatives have to be so narrow , so dramatic ? |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't know why you have to be so contrary , ’ snapped my mother . |
| 14 | It 's quite hard , you have to be so delicate the way you go in . ’ |
| 15 | Why do you all us have to be so special ? ’ |
| 16 | It 's awful how we have to be so aware and always on our guard that we are n't able to live normal lives . |
| 17 | You do need to be as sharp as possible , because you have to be so quick with your gags . |
| 18 | Do you know , but you have to be so quick and you have to be precise and you must know that that 's what you want . |
| 19 | It has to be places that are very flat and you have to be so careful . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't see why we have to be so careful ? ’ she said , still hopping about . |
| 21 | and you have to be so careful now erm and y you get in the the l the larger roundabouts and more and more lanes . |
| 22 | It 's only while they stay so in-house as a D S O , that we have to be so careful about what we do and what we do n't . |
| 23 | If the latter are regarded as territory to be defended , as rallying cries for confrontation with others , perhaps we ought to be asking whether they need to be so territorial ? |