Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] [modal v] [be] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's 'ow I can be so sure , you see . |
| 2 | That 's 'ow I can be so certain about the expression on 'is face . |
| 3 | For this means that ‘ the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from … their legislators , whenever they shall be so foolish , or so wicked , as to lay and carry on designs against the[ir] liberties and properties ’ . |
| 4 | And the effect for Locke is this , and again I , I quote the legislative being only a fiduciary power , that is to say a power based on trust a fiduciary power to act for certain ends , there remains still in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the legislative when they find the legislative act contrary to the trust imposed in them and thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of every body even if their legislators whenever they shall be so foolish or so wicked as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject . |
| 5 | I remembered this when one of my daughters asked how I could be so apathetic about the world and its problems . |
| 6 | She was not sure how she could be so certain of this except , perhaps , that there had been a miasma of heaviness , a cold , black diseased feel to the air which was not there now . |
| 7 | And , if you recall , I asked how she could be so sure . |
| 8 | Dolly , healthily peckish , said , ‘ I do n't know how you can be so good to me , nursin' me ankle , givin' me your bed , and feedin' me as well , and me a girl that 's done pinchin' and nickin' . ’ |
| 9 | " I ca n't imagine how you can be so ungrateful , child , " she said between coughing fits . |
| 10 | Some of you may have put this book down feeling slightly faint , wondering how you can be so stupid while the rest of the world is so clever . |
| 11 | I do n't know how you can be so tired when you only get up at half past ten in the morning ! |
| 12 | ‘ That 's how we can be so sure that no slip-ups occur . |
| 13 | Strange how they can be so strange and then , quite suddenly , so normal . |
| 14 | Yeah , I mean , the kids how they can be so agile in jumping off the barge |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't know how they could be so cruel , ’ she said . |
| 16 | Frankie did not understand how it could be so important which end of the Bible they preferred to read or which church they were both too busy to attend every Saturday and Sunday . |
| 17 | ‘ Ah , but I need to know for sure , you see , because I have some doubts , and before you ask me why I should be so concerned I will assure you that this time it is partly for my own self-esteem that I would like to know . ’ |
| 18 | As he ran upstairs she wondered why she should be so pleased he had come , he would only want to dredge up information to help in the murder case . |
| 19 | I could n't work out why she should be so interested , but the answer was no : I 'd never taken her there . |
| 20 | Exactly why she should be so wary of further contact she did not know , but avoiding it seemed prudent . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't know why you should be so thin , ’ her mother complained in disappointment . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't know why you should be so dark , ’ her mother said with irritation , accidentally scraping Martha 's cheek with her long , scarlet thumbnail . |
| 23 | But I must say I am at some loss as to why you should be so concerned with these most trivial of errors . ’ |
| 24 | Bookshop staff went round handing out sweets and , as the light faded , a portable telephone was taken along the line for those who wanted to tell their friends and relatives why they would be so late home . |
| 25 | Why they should be so flinching on this score is beyond me , but let me assure Ed that I 'm note remotely intolerant of any of them , only surprised and amused that its mention should matter to them so much . |
| 26 | After all , there 's no reason , bar some weird dictate of trendiness , why they should define themselves against indie-kids ; no reason why they should be so consumed by some spurious culture to become impervious to the outside world . |
| 27 | Colonel John Sidney North , on the other hand , spoke for the majority of Punch enthusiasts in the House , and ‘ could not understand why they should be so mealy-mouthed about flogging a set of ruffians ’ , denouncing anyone who dissented from flogging as ‘ a wretched old woman for his lenity ’ . |
| 28 | That shut them up , she thought with a wry smile , although why they should be so surprised at her reaction was another puzzle . |
| 29 | Why it should be so in the case of the United Kingdom constitution is , again , a matter of history — and perhaps it again behoves us to bear in mind that the constitution is a process , rather than a settled state of things . |
| 30 | But surely on the more austere view one can easily explain why it should be so peculiar to assert ‘ p but I do n't believe that p ’ . |