Example sentences of "[is] so [adj] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 … ’ |
| 2 | where grievous excess of physical suffering is bred , large parts of the same soil yield , side by side with it , evils of another kind … in some of the regions of insanitary influence , civilization and morals suffer almost equally with health … education … is little likely to penetrate , unless with amended sanitary law , nor human life to be morally raised while physically it is so degraded and squandered . |
| 3 | A hyaena 's nasal membranes have a surface area fifty times bigger and the richness of the information they can gather is so great and varied that it is difficult for us to appreciate it . |
| 4 | It is so efficient and saves vast amounts of time and money . |
| 5 | They use a business language that is so predictable and going out and doing it is not part of the course . |
| 6 | This is because of the nature of the world which is so complex and has what appears to be an inbuilt indeterminism or chance . |
| 7 | In the case of the weak interaction the ‘ balls ’ must be very heavy , because the force is so feeble and has such a short range : it would be difficult to throw a rugby ball made of lead very far , very often . |
| 8 | This is the most beautiful place I have ever been , a land of snow that is so fresh and clean that to ride over it seems criminal . |
| 9 | I urge the Secretary of State to say why , when business person after business person tells him , ’ Of course , we must have a single European currency , ’ he continues to insist on the opt-out that is so unrealistic and damaging to British industry ? |
| 10 | But amidst all this abundance , the nation is so disunited and rent by continual factions , that it seems at every moment to be threatened with the horrors of civil wars … |
| 11 | In Stag Line Ltd v Tyne Ship Repair Group Ltd ( The Zinnia ) [ 1984 ] 2 Lloyd 's Rep 211 , 222 Staughton J observed that he was tempted to hold that exclusion clauses in the contract before him were unreasonable because " first … they are in such small print that one can barely read them ; secondly , the draftsmanship is so convoluted and prolix that one almost needs an LLB to understand them " . |
| 12 | It is apparent that other factors may also be relevant : for instance , in Stag Line Ltd v Tyne Ship Repair Group Ltd ( The Zinnia ) [ 1984 ] 2 Lloyd 's Rep 211 Staughton J was inclined to hold the terms in a commercial contract unreasonable " first because they are in such small print that one can barely read them ; secondly , the draftsmanship is so convoluted and prolix that one almost needs an LLB to understand them " . |
| 13 | She is so cheerful and manages to cook and clean for herself . |
| 14 | Because it is so plain and built entirely of concrete , the car-park effect is instantaneous , yet once get clear of the large struts that support the roof , and this becomes a compelling structure , more stadium than church even now but reassuring to the puritanical visitor after the orgy of nineteenth-century frippery elsewhere in the Cité . |
| 15 | But , according to Macchio 's lawyer , Norman Oberstein , ‘ It 's so absurd and strains one 's imagination . |
| 16 | ‘ We ca n't find 'im , but it 's so deep and 'as such strong currents , 'e ca n't 'ave 'ad a chance . ’ |
| 17 | It 's all right , honey , I do n't really talk like that , I do it to irritate Matt , though it usually does n't because he 's so thick-skinned and thinks everyone else talks like that anyway , so I guess I do it for my own private amusement . |
| 18 | It 's so infuriating and have you seen the Cambridge photos ? |
| 19 | It 's so sincere and done with such love that you know it must be agony for them and your one thought is , ‘ Oh God , how could I have hurt these people like that ? ’ |