Example sentences of "[modal v] be so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A future director of the National Theatre who admired Leavis 's lectures at Cambridge has since remarked that ‘ all we students pretended we sped to his lectures to imbibe his humanism , ’ whereas in fact they were enjoying his character-assassinations : ‘ Strange that a great moralist should be so destructive about creative artists . ’ |
| 2 | I told her how much I disliked Katherine Mansfield as a personality , and she faintly rebuked me : ‘ What I feel is that we should be so grateful to her . ’ |
| 3 | The Secretary of State seems to think that we should be so grateful that the Government have promised that the poll tax will go that we should not look too closely at what will replace it . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Carrie felt impatient with her — no grown-up should be so weak and so silly — but she was sorry as well . |
| 6 | As a male chainworker commented to Commissioner on the Factory Acts in 1876 : ‘ I should advocate their [ women 's ] time should be so limited as neither to interfere with their own health and morals or with our wages ’ . |
| 7 | Constance could not decide whether or not his diffidence sprang from fear or indifference , and she found it puzzling that someone as confident as Nicky in every other area of his life should be so timid when it came to love . |
| 8 | It is remarkable that the language of Briggs ' book , a sad commentary on the preoccupation up to now with examinations in England and Wales , should be so accurate in its awful warning of the new system . |
| 9 | That adjourned meeting should be so fixed as to allow those who had not timeously lodged their applications or objections to have these applications or objections timeously lodged for the adjourned meeting of the board . |
| 10 | ‘ I saw a headline on an article about Kylie once which read ‘ I should be so ordinary ’ and I thought , ‘ Yeah , that 's exactly right ’ . |
| 11 | The discussions themselves should vary widely in topic , but should be so planned as to involve the display of evidence , and the development and probing of both argument and evidence . |
| 12 | It 's ridiculous one should be so shocked by falling down . ’ |
| 13 | It is astonishing that health ministersn now grappling with the financial disasters of the NHS internal market further down the line , should be so complacent in the early stages of their much-vaunted mixed economy of care . |
| 14 | An elective despotism was not the government we fought for ; but one in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies or magistracies , as that no one could transcend their legal limits , without being effectually checked and restrained by the others . " |
| 15 | Clovis 's decision that his kingdom should be so divided most probably reflects the precise political situation at the end of his reign . |
| 16 | It is a disappointment that the documentation and software supplied should be so poor compared with the standard of the tablet itself . |
| 17 | The survey says that there appears to be no one explanation why the fees should be so low , particularly as other companies ' fees do relate to their size . |
| 18 | As with inspection , the cleaner should be so positioned as to be able to see all areas of the work even if it means squatting , kneeling or lying down . |
| 19 | On 17 July 1559 , the answer was a scolding letter from her husband the king of France to lord James , marvelling that he , who ‘ has the honour to be so near the Queen 's Grace , my wife … should be so forgetful as to make yourself the head … of the tumults and seditions ’ ; only six days later did the queen get round to sending a similarly plaintive message herself . |
| 20 | Any good weight loss regime should not lead to extreme hunger ; it should be so easy that you can stick with the diet until all the weight is off . |
| 21 | Curious about everything ; about the men who paid so little attention to her , wondering where they were taking her ; about Allen , wondering what he was doing ; about the Friar and what he would think when he found them gone ; about herself that she should be so indifferent to her circumstances and so little fearful ; and a little curious , but least curious of all , about the Friar 's sack , curious as to why if it contained only the remnants of a meal he had been so concerned to hide it and so uneasy at leaving it in their care . |
| 22 | Clearly it is of prime importance to know how and why this dramatic reversal of traditional attitudes has occurred , and to ask ourselves the question why our approval of democracy should be so automatic and unhesitating when , had we been born a century or so earlier , we would have been equally unhesitating in disclaiming any support for so dangerous and radical a notion . |
| 23 | As you come within two months of the examination period you should try to answer a complete past examination paper under your simulated conditions , which , by now , should be so familiar that all trace of tenseness and nervousness will have vanished . |
| 24 | That the world should be so enchanting after the enchantment of Vitor 's lovemaking was entirely appropriate . |
| 25 | ‘ I should be so lucky/Lucky , lucky lucky ’ is n't going to win any Booker prizes for literature . |
| 26 | ‘ I should be so lucky/Lucky , lucky lucky ’ is n't going to win any Booker prizes for literature . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't know why you should be so dark , ’ her mother said with irritation , accidentally scraping Martha 's cheek with her long , scarlet thumbnail . |
| 28 | ‘ It seemed such a pity your room should be so dark and cold , Mr Stevens , when it 's such bright sunshine outside . |
| 29 | The question is whether Europe should be so content . |
| 30 | Some declared Minogue-free zones and preferred to play a spoof record instead , ‘ I Should Be So Yucky ’ . |