Example sentences of "be so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Love is the Grand Unified Force ; and , just as when we watch a good movie , we might become so emotionally involved that we forget it is ‘ only a movie ’ , it is our feelings which make life appear to be so real . |
| 2 | I found this section , number three , of particular interest because surely it 's dealing with the very kernel of our relationship to what we call in language that ought to be so real and preserved from romanticism , the body of Christ membership limbhood branchship , whatever you want to call it , if whether you take your figure from John fifteen or from the Apostle . |
| 3 | How can they be so certain that their judgements are fair and just ? |
| 4 | Moreover , most of us seem to be so certain that a first edition is really a first edition . |
| 5 | The Anglican Henry Dannett provided a further fall-back epistemological basis for vindicating antislavery perceptions of the moral order by arguing that even ‘ if scriptural decisions should appear to contradict our ideas of right and wrong we are still bound to follow those ideas because we can not be so certain that we rightly understand and justly limit those scriptural decisions as we are of our own ideas of right and wrong ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ How can you be so certain ? ’ |
| 7 | But how could she be so certain that her intention would be transparent to me , and how did I understand her meaning so accurately ? |
| 8 | But how could she be so certain that her intention would be transparent to me , and how did I understand her meaning so accurately ? |
| 9 | She thought that it was odd that she should be so certain of Beuno 's allegiance with her against one of his countrymen , but she had no doubts of him . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | That 's 'ow I can be so certain about the expression on 'is face . |
| 12 | ‘ What enabled you to be so certain Heather Mallender visited me here ? ’ |
| 13 | We can say with certainty that we would be able to mount the first kind of display ; but at the moment we can not be so certain about the travelling display which , although the more attractive proposition , has much more significant resource implications . |
| 14 | ‘ How can you be so certain ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ When so much depends upon it , ’ she said , ‘ it seems wrong to be so certain . ’ |
| 16 | I did n't know a lad could be so black and blue … . |
| 17 | ‘ Outers ’ can be so misleading ! |
| 18 | … If in such a case the circumstances be such at the time when the act or neglect occurs that it should reasonably be foreseen that the person in fact injured thereby might be so injured , then at the time of the injury a relationship giving rise to a duty exists . |
| 19 | The Americans used to be so arrogant that they refused even to allow the Panamanian flag to fly . |
| 20 | How can anyone be so arrogant as to talk about this Creature , this Thing , as if they knew It , as if they had just had a letter from It or had chatted to It over the phone , when the It can not be conceived , understood , described , or even proved to exist . |
| 21 | Morrissey should not be so arrogant as to think that he can , expecting no recrimination or criticism , use racist imagery without anything but the most ambiguous of reasons . |
| 22 | How could he be so arrogant ? |
| 23 | How can we be so arrogant as to say ‘ do as I do ? ’ |
| 24 | He must have caught a shade of disapproval in his sergeant 's poker-face for he added , ‘ Do n't be so strait-laced , Sergeant . |
| 25 | ‘ Do n't be so damn selfish , woman . |
| 26 | ‘ Do n't you be so damn patronising , Reginald Farrier . |
| 27 | ‘ Not to be so damn silly ! ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Do n't be so damn patronising ! |
| 29 | ‘ Do n't be so melodramatic ! ’ |
| 30 | As actors , they were all used to people looking different off-screen , but none of them had expected him to be so tall . |