Example sentences of "so [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] is " in BNC.

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1 In the case of Jupiter the temperatures are about 300 to 400 million K , though the number density is so low that no glow is visible .
2 In practice the probability of such words occurring in adjacent positions is so low that the problem is negligible .
3 However , the complications created by roots are not so acute when the tree is standing on level land .
4 Perhaps the target is so unrealistic that a short-fall is inevitable .
5 But what happens if the traditional route out of the slums is effectively barred , or if unemployment is so high that the underclass is offered no hope ?
6 Thus if at this moment someone said something to me about " that ugly little statue on your fireplace " and accompanied this with an appropriate gesture , I should have little difficulty in identifying the object to which he is referring , but identification may not be so easy if a reference is made to an object that is not accessible to immediate perception , or of which I have no knowledge whatever .
7 Stuttgart coach Christophe Daum had named Chapman as his side 's biggest worry after the pre-season Makita tournament at Elland Road , saying : ‘ He is so dangerous when the ball is played into him in the air , and I do n't think we are able to cope with that . ’
8 It is much more dangerous to humans than the man-o'-war , and several hundred fatalities have been recorded ; death is so sudden that no treatment is possible .
9 I sing it practically every night of my life , because , like bits of Hamlet , it 's so obvious that the trick is to go against the lyric and stir in your listener the real sense of a man who can not love .
10 In such cases it is easy to make a correct recovery because it is so obvious that the glider is stalled .
11 The tank 's lid is so good that the suction is enough to seal it , with the ring clamp .
12 Visual acuity is often normal even when the field of vision is so poor that the child is registered as blind .
13 How come I feel so well when the cancer is so widespread ?
14 Thus in the above example , investors are willing to pay slightly more in terms of time value for calls than for puts but the difference is so slight that the indicator is in this case quite inconclusive .
15 Allegations that the expert has made a mistake will succeed only if the mistake is an error so fundamental that no expert is likely to have made it .
16 Therefore , s.5(4) applies to voidable contracts ; that is , where the mistake is not so fundamental that the contract is void .
17 Ownership would not have been transferred where the mistake is so fundamental that the transaction is void such as when there is a mistake as to the relevant identity of the recipient .
18 Dismissal may include constructive dismissal : the employer 's behaviour proves so objectionable that the employee is obliged to leave .
19 ‘ The Safe-Buy concept has been so successful that the scheme is now spreading all over the UK , ’ says Judith Chalmers .
20 It moves me playing it and it upsets me playing it , it 's very upsetting to play Alfie , because A he 's such a disastrous man as a person d you know you think oh god I do n't really wan na be playing this man for sixteen weeks but the part is so wonderful and the play is so rich that you ca n't help s sort of s submitting to it and putting yourself in the position of being a masochist I suppose .
21 He boasts about inward investment , but is he not aware that following the last slump under this Government , between 1979-81 , investment in manufacturing industry was so slow that the capacity is now hardly any higher than it was 12 years ago ?
22 Mahogany is a very warm wood as far as tone is concerned , but this body is so thin that the result is quite bright and snappy — great for jazz/fusion rhythm sounds and a perfect foil for sound processing .
23 Messenger is not , of course , suggesting that women 's writing in the period is so fragmented that the concept is basically useless , but that the writing of women can not be reduced to a single critical proposition .
24 This book is the true story of a decade in which physical and mental torture became so common that the wonder is not that so many were killed or driven to kill themselves but that so many more survived .
25 So remote that a bargepole is more use to a traveller than a British Rail season ticket when the London train breaks down .
26 There are certain books , in almost any field , that are so rare that the collector is very unlikely to find a copy in good condition and , perforce , will have to make do with second , third , or tenth best .
27 When I very deliberately try and remember it like this I know I end up remembering it and describing it being like a bar scene in a musical , where everyone that the camera pans past is a very definite character , and they 're all so eager when the camera is on them , clapping and laughing and tapping their feet to the music so convincingly .
28 Severe pain , muscle seizure and heart failure may end in rapid death ; or the pain may be so intense that the victim is unable to swim and drowns .
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