Example sentences of "[been] so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There seemed to be a permanent but suppressed hostility there , cooling everything that had once been so warm . |
| 2 | ‘ But so are you , ’ I protested , really astonished because he had been so reasonable about my activities up to now . |
| 3 | She has been so strange , a sullen , lumpy girl , given to peering in the mirror and walking despondently in and out of empty rooms , scorning experiences and emotions . |
| 4 | Some of the descriptions of working-class life had been so strange , so remote from the Oswaldston that Greg had come to know , as to seem to belong to a foreign land , in a remote period of history . |
| 5 | The whole thing has been so strange . ’ |
| 6 | Accordingly in the Rules an incorporated practice which has been so recognised is referred to as a ‘ recognised body ’ . |
| 7 | Few forecasts have been so wide of the mark . |
| 8 | So , slowly , Creggan came to learn the routine and the lore of the Zoo and , without realizing it , to let his world , which had once been so wide and full of hope and freedom , close in and grow small ; a place in which the trivial things like the way Woil talked to the Men , or where the vultures were , were more important than flight , freedom , the sky and the winds they were banned from . |
| 9 | The H16 engine was designed for the 3-litre formula that came into effect in 1966 and was developed from mating a pair of the 1.5-litre V8s that had been so successful in the preceding years . |
| 10 | In London , the Compact has been so successful that children who would previously have left as soon as they reached the school-leaving age of sixteen , are deciding to stay on at school to take further exams . |
| 11 | In the Far East , where Britain had been so successful in defeating Communist terrorism , there was also growing instability . |
| 12 | Harold Watkinson had not survived as Secretary of State for Defence long enough to see his counter-reformation completed , but he did have the satisfaction of knowing that , had it not been for his efforts to swing the pendulum of British Defence policy back into the centre of the spectrum of war , Britain 's disengagement from empire would not have been so successful . |
| 13 | In the Portuguese elections of 1984 , where I was an adviser , it was quite a problem — it had always been done from the second floor — so I suggested the flatbed truck concept that had been so successful in Malta . |
| 14 | Evidently Menwith Hill 's operations have been so successful that a $26 million expansion programme has been approved as part of the Project P415 programme . |
| 15 | Astra has been so successful that its owner , Société Européenne des Satellites of Luxembourg , has already placed firm orders for third and fourth crafts to be launched in early 1993 and 1994 . |
| 16 | They have been so successful that the strongest machines available are now about as good as the best mainframes of five years ago . |
| 17 | English China Clays has been so successful at reclaiming the visitors notice only the unreclaimed sites |
| 18 | Its area is much smaller than it was , but the landscaping of the reclaimed areas has been so successful that they merge into the surrounding countryside and become ‘ invisible ’ . |
| 19 | The group have been so successful that Diane and Carol have a waiting list . |
| 20 | ‘ The Safe-Buy concept has been so successful that the scheme is now spreading all over the UK , ’ says Judith Chalmers . |
| 21 | CHANNEL 4 's Saturday night series TV Heaven which dishes up gems from the archives has been so successful that the BBC have jumped on the bandwagon . |
| 22 | If Dire Straits had n't been so successful , would you have carried on as a circuit band , or would you have gone back to teaching or journalism ? |
| 23 | In 1988 , Ruth Barclay teamed up with her niece , Sherrie Bodie , to open Barclay & Bodie which has been so successful they 've taken over the shop next door . |
| 24 | George wanted to obtain shapes that were visually stimulating in the sky and has been so successful that , since his start in Hawaii , he has travelled the world , influencing many other like-minded free spirits . |
| 25 | But on nothing has the culture of contentment been so successful as in shaping the accepted attitude toward the state . |
| 26 | It is why you have been so successful for us abroad . |
| 27 | He has been so successful at keeping his private life private that it took six months for the world 's gossip columns to find out that he married his long-term girlfriend Phoebe Cates , star of the Gremlins films . |
| 28 | If England had not been so successful , then perhaps I would be moaning . |
| 29 | Tim Mackie has explained to me that the organisation has been so successful gathering together items of rolling stock , track and equipment that there are not enough members available to operate trains and work on the infrastructure at the same time . |
| 30 | A SMALL village business , which is to shortly celebrate its first birthday , has been so successful it could soon be looking for bigger premises . |