Example sentences of "[is] so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Id only just been telling my girlfriend my favourite quip about how he only scores because he s SO ugly he scares the defenders . |
| 2 | Coleridge 's treatment of the topic is so varied , and takes so many forms , that to merely cite ‘ Creativity ’ as the subject matter of the poetry is to limit the range of Coleridge 's exploration . |
| 3 | ‘ It is so tasteless , ’ she hissed in his ear . |
| 4 | Much of the factory food we eat is so tasteless that in desperation people reach for the brown sauce , tomato ketchup or pickles to perk it up . |
| 5 | Hollywood vs America is a thought-provoking polemic , but Medved 's use of material is so selective that he 's in danger of undermining his own credibility . |
| 6 | But not every writer is so innocent . |
| 7 | ‘ But even you , a man , must agree that the whole business is so unequal . |
| 8 | The resulting exposition is so authoritative that practitioners and the courts departed from it only rarely unless subsequent developments made this necessary . |
| 9 | The quality of the crop is very good , and the fruit is so ripe they 're having to pick it very quickly . |
| 10 | Yesterday 's initial tour selection is so strong as to make no difference . |
| 11 | They are highly social , congregating in groups as large as 500 , and the bonding between members of the herd is so strong that if a pilot or lead whale beaches itself , the rest of the herd will often follow , creating a mass stranding . |
| 12 | It seems that our collective wish for this state is so strong that we are quite unable to contemplate the opposite . |
| 13 | Yet in a country where the pull of the past is so strong and the future so tantalising , it is best when you are travelling to live exclusively in the present . |
| 14 | Mrs Prentiss , the wife of the American consul in St Pierre wrote a letter home : ‘ The smell of sulphur is so strong that horses in the street stop and snort , and some of them drop in their harness and die of suffocation . |
| 15 | Since the true wind is so strong , the apparent wind plays little part . |
| 16 | At the start of the contact the need to be stroked is so strong that it suppresses their fear . |
| 17 | The increased order is so strong that no neuro-electric message can fight it — a special EM field has to be applied . |
| 18 | But the bonding between an infant and his or her family is so strong that within a few days , as in the case of Marie and her partner Peter , you are convinced you know your own baby from any other in the world . |
| 19 | But Faldo handles it all so well , he is so strong mentally . ’ |
| 20 | And it may be that there are certain women whose beauty is so strong , so close to the archetype of the Queen of Beauty , that they produce an intense effect upon other human beings . |
| 21 | The specificity of cognitive accounts of particular ages is so strong that feminist psychologists have not really managed to make links between them or across them . |
| 22 | The feeling and atmosphere to ( sic ) the place is so strong that you can almost breathe it in . ’ |
| 23 | How can opposition to reform be contained in other countries if it is so strong in more successful Poland ? |
| 24 | Society 's need for this is so strong , he says , that it promotes continual and dramatic celebration of deviant acts ( originally via public punishments , later via the mass media ) , and uses inefficient control agencies such as prison in order to produce more , rather than less , crime . |
| 25 | Indeed , the research evidence is so strong that it is now reflected in the high incidence of work teams , ‘ away days ’ for functional groups and courses in team-building . |
| 26 | Indeed , some have argued that the ‘ traditionalism of his general philosophy is so strong that it virtually disables him from that critical rationalism which is essential for the appraisal of particular traditions ’ . |
| 27 | It seems the weakness has arisen not only because of the excess capacity built during the Central Electricity Generating Board 's dying years , but also because the competition for business between the regional distribution companies , the generators , the Scottish companies , Nuclear Electric and the French is so strong , and also because of recession . |
| 28 | Friendship between domestic horses is well known , and the need for attachment is so strong that lone horses will become firm friends with cows , goats , pigs and even people . |
| 29 | McDunn really wants to help , I can see that , but he 's under pressure , too ; the circumstantial evidence against me is so strong people who do n't know the details of the case are getting impatient over the lack of progress . |
| 30 | This expectation is so strong that most congregations are prepared to spend huge sums for the provision and maintenance of an instrument which is , in many cases , the single most valuable asset in the building . |