Example sentences of "[noun] is [adv] [adv] [adj] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The human mind is usually so active that it sets off a number of ‘ what if ? ’ speculations and ‘ is that really so ? ’ evaluations under the stimulation of the text . |
| 2 | This is of course not possible , and we should rather conclude that any intermediate , formed by the initial attack of Cl - on , must have no significant absorption in the spectral range studied , or that its concentration is never so great that it contributes significantly to the spectrum . |
| 3 | Fortunately the technology of the food processing industry is now so sophisticated that infection from this source has been virtually eliminated . |
| 4 | The American circuit is nowadays so tough that its players mostly have no option but to work if they want to hang on to their players ' cards . |
| 5 | But it is largely because Loch Ness is so biologically unproductive that it is also biologically stable : it is spared the seasonal booms and crashes in the populations of living things that are characteristic of more productive lakes . |
| 6 | The issue is not so much that the LDDC was unwilling to effect democratic procedures with elected authorities in the early to mid-1980s , but rather ( as is discussed below ) that the policies proposed by the LDDC were different from those agreed by local government , and that co-operation would simply have proved impossible . |
| 7 | Our service sector is now so large that it is an obstacle . |
| 8 | The real danger facing Russia is not so much that Mr Yeltsin will lose the constitutional war . |
| 9 | The Council is obviously terribly happy that it 's got this new service running from nine a.m . |
| 10 | Reassurance that the child is already fully aware that something is wrong can give parents confidence to talk . |
| 11 | In The Color Purple , Celie is not really aware that she is poor , simply because she knows no other lifestyle apart from the one she is accustomed to or the wealthier white people 's . |
| 12 | In a number of other areas , and particularly , for example , in the provision of investment advice about packaged products , this is not so clear and SIB is not yet convinced that chartered accountants have obtained and retained the requisite level of knowledge — the discussions on this continue . |
| 13 | Sometimes a seller is so financially powerful that he can blatantly insist on such a clause being included in the contract ; he can adopt a ‘ take it or leave it ’ attitude . |
| 14 | It is clear from the right hon. Gentleman 's first attempt to amend regulation 72 that the Government 's motive is to save money and administration — the motive is so absolutely blatant that I am amazed that even the Parliamentary Under-Secretary , whose eccentricities are well known , could not deny the obvious — while , at the same time , blocking or restricting back payments of entitlement , even where there has been official error . |
| 15 | The main significance claimed for the market for corporate control as an efficiency- inducing device is not so much that companies are actually taken-over and inadequate managements displaced , though of course this does happen and is regarded as a valuable effect of the mechanism , but that incumbent managements fear take-over and hence will do all they can to make the company efficient and the share price correspondingly high . |
| 16 | Other than that the neck feels really good and solid , and although it 's of the slim , wide variety ( 43.75mm at nut ) the fingerboard is n't so wide that you ca n't wrap a thumb over the top if you 're so inclined . |
| 17 | Evaluating the toxicology of any new pesticide is now so expensive that few new compounds are reaching the market . |
| 18 | However , it seems plausible that this source of energy has been of little importance in the past because Jupiter is so very massive that it probably formed very hot , though Jupiter may now be sufficiently cool for helium separation to have recently become significant , or for it to become significant in the relatively near future . |
| 19 | The danger with regard to capital gains tax is not so much that the protector may be treated as a trustee , which is very unlikely in a properly drawn protectorship clause in the deed , but that he may de facto intervene in the way the trust is carried out so that the Revenue may argue that the general administration of the trust is not ordinarily carried on outside the United Kingdom . |
| 20 | IBM Corp says its Personal Computer Co shipped 30% to 35% more personal computers in the first quarter than it did during the year-ago period , and vice-chairman Jack Kuehler expects it to be ‘ reasonably profitable ’ in 1993 — but the personal computer business is now so volatile that making forecasts more than a quarter ahead is a mug 's game : following Conner Peripherals Inc 's warning on Friday that it is seeing oversupply and soft demand for disk drives ( CI No 2,142 ) , observers are saying that grey market prices for 80486s are now weak ; Finis Conner said on Friday that Conner would have to slash production and payrolls in the months ahead to remain competitive — ‘ The market is in total disarray , ’ he said ; ‘ the pricing that has occurred in the last four to five days has been something I 've never seen believes the booming personal computer industry is showing signs of slowing after being fuelled for over two years by the price war . |
| 21 | The group is only too aware that the dangers of conifer plantations are not limited to creating great black tracts of sterile land ( nothing grows beneath their dense needles ) . |
| 22 | ‘ My imagination is n't so impoverished that I would invent a name like Jones , ’ she came back . |
| 23 | The relative molecular mass of NaCl determined from the elevation of boiling point is thus approximately half that calculated from its formula . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , for a number of writers the essential point is not so much that these ideas on unemployment and social welfare were new , as that a broad political consensus developed around them which achieved its apotheosis in the triumph of Keynesianism in 1947 [ Booth , 1983 ; 1984 ] . |
| 25 | Also the sporting community in South Africa is now uncomfortably aware that their cricketing authorities have asked far too much of their players this year . |
| 26 | Yet the world champion is so unpredictably gifted that one on-song display could easily enable her to sweep aside the opposition . |
| 27 | This usage is now so prevalent that it hardly conveys anything more than the best that could be imagined . |
| 28 | Consequently , the CEGB needs to convince the inspector not only that the most likely outcome is a negative net-effective cost , but also that the sensitivity of this result to plausible changes in the CEGB 's forecasts is not so great that a positive ( undesirable ) NEC becomes a likely result . |
| 29 | The world market for tourism is now so competitive that we can not afford to let our efforts stall . |
| 30 | Across in Hong Kong the marine department raises a single beacon on a flagpole on Green Island , the No. 1 signal : all Hong Kong is now formally aware that a typhoon may be forming within 500 miles . |