Example sentences of "[adj] [is] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is so we can respond effectively to the needs of our clients . |
| 2 | But if this is so , it can be seen to make possible biographical connections of a usable kind . |
| 3 | This is so serious that for world championship flying , many gliders are now fitted with a means of cleaning off the leading edges of the wings in flight . |
| 4 | Why this is so and hints on how to centre quickly are given in the newest edition of Gliding ( A & C Black ) . |
| 5 | Leavis defined critical discussion as taking the form , ‘ This is so , is n't it ? ’ expecting the answer , ‘ yes , but … ’ ( though never , ‘ I very much doubt it ’ or ‘ No , in thunder ! ’ ) . |
| 6 | If this is so , then it seems that for ‘ the art one serves ’ one might as well read : the culture one serves , the historical period one serves , even the society one serves ( perhaps an international society ) . |
| 7 | This is so that the energy can be made to travel a much greater distance . |
| 8 | Whether or not this is so , few would deny that Abbado is a sound choice , a man of few words who nevertheless commands great respect among orchestral players and is as highly praised for his Rossini as for his Mahler , his Mozart or his Brian Ferneyhough . |
| 9 | This is so stupid that you might wonder why the employers did not plump for the other alternative — until you come to look at it ! |
| 10 | ‘ Well , ’ they answered a little sheepishly , ‘ this is so much cosier . ’ |
| 11 | Because this is so , I do not believe that their position is as different from that of nineteenth-century anthropologists and Marx and Engels as they would like us to believe , if we were to take their rejection of ‘ evolutionism ’ at its face value . |
| 12 | This is so to the extent that the claim for a structurally distinct postmodernist mode of signification breaks down in the face of a variety of historical avant-garde practices ranging across Europe from London to Vienna and Moscow in the hands of such as Eliot , Joyce , the Cubists , Surrealists and others ( including , somewhat surprisingly , Kokoschka ) . |
| 13 | This is so ludicrous it is laughable in modern times . |
| 14 | This is so of Aubrey Williams , who came to Britain from Guyana in 1952 ; of Ahmed Parvez , a Pakistani who arrived in London in 1955 , and of Iqbal Geoffrey , a highly uneven artist whose splashings and fuzzed calligraphy have genuine feeling for improvisation . |
| 15 | This is so not only in physics , but also in mathematics , which , we might have supposed , does provide knowledge of the real natures of numbers and geometrical figures , and demonstrations about the causes of their properties . |
| 16 | When all the possible beneficiaries are of full age and under no disability ( such as that of an infant or lunatic ) , they may put an end to the trust by requiring the trustee to transfer the property to them or to dispose of it according to their directions ; and this is so in spite of any direction to the contrary in the settlement , such as a direction that payment is not to be made to a beneficiary till he reaches the age of 25 . |
| 17 | This is so . |
| 18 | This is so even if the relationship they are worried about is a very strong one or the parting they are anxious about is a very ordinary and short one . |
| 19 | The shock of all of this is so great that she might well lose her health . |
| 20 | If this is so , then the random sequence can evolve into the optimal one in as few as 100 steps , each step being driven by natural selection . |
| 21 | We can suggest that the eye spots scare off predators , and there is some evidence that this is so . |
| 22 | Miller 's Vinca rosea ( now Catharanthus roseus ) had been brought forward : ‘ as this plant is a great novelty in Europe … the Figure of the Plant has not yet been seen by any living person ’ and of Gardenia capense , called by him Jasminium , he wrote , ‘ Could we have procured a good drawing in proper time it would have been in its proper place , but as this is so curious and being an undescribed plant , we hope our purchasers will not be displeased with insertion here . ’ |
| 23 | The discussion is more neutral only in so far as it is assumed that the curriculum ( such a global phenomenon ) is no-one 's responsibility in particular , and clearly this is so in an individual sense — but it is however the responsibility of the profession to take a leading role in this area and at the moment it is not fulfilling this role . |
| 24 | It is not quite clear why this is so , especially as such an alignment cut into the side-pond area of the lock flight . |
| 25 | Given that this is so , what sense can we make of the way in which God , as opposed to John or Jane Smith , is personal ? |
| 26 | That this is so is borne out by the fact that seaside towns with golf links handy have gone ahead by leaps and bounds . ’ |
| 27 | And we have in fact been able to demonstrate already that this is so . |
| 28 | To the extent that this is so , there is room for a doctrine of reasons of state in political action . |
| 29 | But later on he makes it clear that this is so , at least in part , because the supposedly inevitable outcome of that choice is not really neutral : |
| 30 | My point is merely that even if this is so , the fact remains that narrow neutrality is often all that is meant by ‘ neutrality ’ . |