Example sentences of "it [verb] to be so " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it has to be so used with great care , and preferably only by trained and professional medical advisers . |
| 2 | some women do and I 'm not quite clear that it has to be so definite as as er |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It has to be so organised , as a learner-centred activity , that it sensitises the participant to cultural differences . |
| 5 | It was not so , at the beginning of each new term she found it was not so , but it seemed to be so , and the same mixture of guilt and hate and sorrow would strike her anew , each time as forcefully , each time she got off the train at Northam Station . |
| 6 | It seemed to be so physical , and nothing else . |
| 7 | For twelve months , I 've been trying to er , when I realised that that was put on my cleaning bill , it seemed to be so unfair that the little ol and the lady who , up till now has has cleaned for me , because the home help service , no longer just does cleaning . |
| 8 | And even when it appears to be so , the level of sales is in itself a quite complex measure . |
| 9 | Our own Planning Committee County Council Planning Committee recommends route A on environmental and ecological grounds and route A is the popular choice the town speak and the Brandon Action Group and indeed the Suffolk member of Parliament , however the Norfolk County Council and the Weeting Parish Council oppose for the day and the Norfolk Member of Parliament supports their case , worth noting that Breckland District Council , the local planning authority in Norfolk also opposes for a day , now though it appears to be so this is not altogether a case of |
| 10 | Oh , why did it have to be so hard ? |
| 11 | Singularity , like , later , monogamy , was a difficult thing , a strain , almost an oddity : perhaps that was its appeal for him , but why did it have to be so ? |
| 12 | Why did it have to be so far off the ground ? |
| 13 | Why should it have to be so difficult to be taken seriously ? |
| 14 | But does it have to be so complicated ? |
| 15 | At any rate , it seems to be so for the Perks . |
| 16 | Once DNA was there , it proved to be so much more efficient as a replicator , and so much more powerful in its effects on its own replication , that the original replication system that spawned it was cast off and forgotten . |
| 17 | So at what point did it cease to be so ? |
| 18 | ‘ And how does it get to be so smooth and shiny ? ’ |
| 19 | Lord Denning said that it had to be so serious that it was of the first importance that offenders be brought to justice . |
| 20 | It continued to be so through more than two decades , and then — in the mid-1980s — it seemed , almost inexplicably , to be secure no longer , despite his having only recently been honoured with a knighthood for services to literature . |
| 21 | Slalom is meant to be fun ; it fails to be so if we take it all too seriously . |