Example sentences of "[is] so " 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 | This is so we can respond effectively to the needs of our clients . |
| 3 | The smell is so terrible you want to throw up . |
| 4 | Yet I know of no picture in which the mid-day heat of Midsummer is so admirably expressed ; and were not the eye refreshed by the shade thrown over a great part of the foreground by some young trees , that border the road , and the cool blue of water near it , one would wish , in looking at it , for a parasol , as Fuseli wished for an umbrella when standing before one of Constable 's showers . |
| 5 | Many readers must have sighed with regret that so few of Gainsborough 's letters have survived , since the charm of his style is so fresh ; it is easy to sympathise with him writing about his professional commitment to portraiture , on behalf of two fine ladies , his daughters : |
| 6 | The rhythmic movement of volumes and planes in space is so basic in Cézanne 's design that it usually extends to the treatment of the background — whether that be sky , wall or drapery — and makes it serve the dual purpose of a screenlike area or space boundary and of a rhythmic sequence of semivoluminous planes which continue the movement of the units in the middleground and foreground ; this sequential ordering thus contributes to compositional unity in the widest sense as well as to the expressive movement of the total form . |
| 7 | Perhaps this is the more important in the late twentieth century now that this means of image-making is so familiar that some people actually imagine that a photograph shows the world as it is . |
| 8 | But if this is so , it can be seen to make possible biographical connections of a usable kind . |
| 9 | Her virtue is so important to her that she can more easily contemplate her brother sacrificing his life to save her virginity than that she might sacrifice herself for him . |
| 10 | But there is the chance of working with Cicely Berry , who is so wonderful at adding in a positive , performance orientated way to all the things you have learnt about voice . |
| 11 | Playing Richard is so bound up with physical attitude , and I think that as actors we are not well enough equipped to meet that kind of physical thinking in that kind of role . |
| 12 | All my life , he wrote , I have been preparing myself for this moment , but if I have prepared myself correctly then it is so that when the moment came I should not be encumbered with the sensation of having waited for it all my life , for such a sensation , wrote Harsnet , is too heavy a burden for anyone to carry . |
| 13 | And the reverse of that , wrote Harsnet , the feeling that all we have already felt and seen and heard has yet to happen , is so far only a dream , a fantasy , and the sense , he wrote , that this may be a feeling we experience again and again throughout our lives , that the elements of experience have failed to catch on to the glass of our lives , or that the glass is there and waiting for the experience to be registered , that it can wait for ever , for it does not know the meaning of time . |
| 14 | The organic metaphor is so deeply rooted , he wrote , that ordinary refutation is not enough . |
| 15 | In the most extreme cases the existing building is so different from the ‘ historic ’ pub concept that a virtual rebuild is proposed . |
| 16 | ‘ How is it that their entertaining is so — er — reliable then ? ’ |
| 17 | RAM TV : Why is so little reggae played on TV and radio ? |
| 18 | The silver birch is so elegantly beautiful , from spring 's pale green bud-burst until the final golden accolade of autumn , that it plays a part in all the seasons , not least because it is especially favoured by long-tailed tits as a food source in winter . |
| 19 | The reason , of course , is that my garden is so packed with plants that the weeds simply do n't stand a chance . |
| 20 | Moreover , the strength of the kink is so low that it will often fail when the glider is only just off the ground . |
| 21 | In such cases it is easy to make a correct recovery because it is so obvious that the glider is stalled . |
| 22 | This is so serious that for world championship flying , many gliders are now fitted with a means of cleaning off the leading edges of the wings in flight . |
| 23 | It is obviously crucial that all instructors are aware of any student who has this problem , since it is so easy to be caught out , like I was . |
| 24 | Usually it will be only for a few seconds , but it is the ability to do it instantly on demand that is so important . |
| 25 | Why this is so and hints on how to centre quickly are given in the newest edition of Gliding ( A & C Black ) . |
| 26 | This distrust of the social scientist is so deeply ingrained that when I was reading anthropology as an undergraduate and I was asked by my colleagues what subject I was reading , I knew that I would have to prevaricate or face problems . |
| 27 | And although always implied rather than broadcast , this rejection of intellectualism is so well understood throughout the service that it has even affected those to whom Bramshill scholarships to University have been offered , and many turn them down . |
| 28 | ‘ This place is so bleak . |
| 29 | ‘ I will speak to you today on a text from that book , the Book of Exodus , which is so replete with wisdom concerning the leader and the led . |
| 30 | It is another pointer to that ambiguity which is so much a characteristic of his life and work , in which the essential orderliness and formal morality of his upbringing clash with his more libertarian — and sometimes libertine — impulses and imagination . |