Example sentences of "so [adj] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So grateful for gravel |
| 2 | She was just too trusting , and , somehow , she had felt so sorry for Peter . |
| 3 | I felt so sorry for Christine . |
| 4 | ‘ I felt so sorry for Lilian . |
| 5 | I know it 's silly , but I always feel so sorry for people who are compelled to steal . " |
| 6 | Could somebody please explain to me why it is that a project that was always highly speculative and which now looks like a near disaster should have been so profitable for investors ? |
| 7 | Yet this admission was not so grievous for Tate as it would have been for others . |
| 8 | The day before we were due to leave , he came up to our room after lunch and began by saying that perhaps it was n't so sensible for Flora to continue her journey by herself , travelling by local buses across the Atlas , and not only not sensible but not altogether safe , even though she was tough and independent and used to looking after herself . |
| 9 | Well , it was n't so funny for Arnold Palmer : it must have been blowing over forty miles-per-hour , and we 're playing with Roberto de Vicenzo and Max Faulkner in the afternoon . |
| 10 | The situation is not so clear for events at the tactical level . |
| 11 | Whilst we can all look forward to cleaner ( and less smelly ) diesel car exhaust the situation is sadly not so clear for trucks and buses . |
| 12 | Originally , he planned only one show but demand was so high for tickets that an extra night was added to the tour . |
| 13 | Things do n't look so rosy for DEC 's Alpha . |
| 14 | If watching plays is so painful for David that he wishes he were somewhere else , then I for one would be glad to take his place . |
| 15 | It then , in October , expressed its concern that a high proportion of courses in subjects other than business studies were being turned down , and it suggested that one of the reasons making it difficult for such courses to be approved might be that ‘ the Council 's present structure of honours and ordinary degrees was not so appropriate for courses in those fields ’ as in science and technology . |
| 16 | It has orchestrated a Public Windows Initiative pressure group of vendors that will attempt to force Microsoft to open up , if not make public , future plans for Win16 , its 16-bit application programming interface for Windows 3.1 , so crucial for Windows developers . |
| 17 | It has orchestrated a Public Windows Initiative pressure group of vendors that will attempt to force Microsoft to open up , if not make public , future plans for Win16 , its 16-bit application programming interface for Windows 3.1 , so crucial for Windows developers ( CI No 2,160 ) . |
| 18 | The early season jungle drums which had sounded so ominous for manager Alan Fraser after two dodgy defeats , now beat out a different message . |
| 19 | The early season jungle drums which had sounded so ominous for manager Alan Fraser after two dodgy defeats , now beat out a different message . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm so pinched for time that I race around grabbing the first thing I see . ’ |
| 21 | It 's so easy for problems to get out of proportion — most conflicts can be overcome by thoughtful action . |
| 22 | It was so easy for minister and congregation to get excited . |
| 23 | That sort of system is not so easy for actors looking for their first job but easier when you are well known . |
| 24 | Why was it so easy for master printers to recruit girls ? |
| 25 | Now that he was down at ground level it was not so easy for Patrick to locate the dell where he had seen the immaculate golfer . |
| 26 | Because it is so easy for women to slip into a shared area with each other , they may at times have a fear of doing so , in case they lose their individuality . |
| 27 | It is unwise for mothers to be too ideologically sound in matter of diet — it makes it so easy for rivals to the children 's hearts to worm their way therein , and win . |
| 28 | One of the reasons we chose the name U2 was to have that ambiguity which I think is necessary , so that it 's not so easy for people to make premature assumptions or wrong associations . |
| 29 | ‘ If it 's so easy for Rain Morgan of the Daily Post to get at the truth , it 's a secret which ca n't be kept . ’ |
| 30 | There would have been a time when most small city streets would have come clearly within the jurisdiction of one parish ; nothing so simple for Brunswick Place — it lay within the civil parish of St Leonards , the municipal ward of Hoxton New Town , the parliamentary borough of Hackney , the urban sanitary district of Hoxton , and the ecclesiastical parish of St John 's . |