Example sentences of "so [adj] that [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other is that the molar numbers are so low that some sort of sampling bias is strongly indicated against the molars . |
| 2 | We were n't certain — we wanted a sensible sum for these features — not so high the human ear could n't hear it — nor so low that any kind of practical arrangement was impossible for our chosen correspondents . |
| 3 | More intensive use of tropical forests is occurring where pressure on land is so acute that fallow periods of insufficient duration are creating environmental degradation . |
| 4 | It had been so dry that two days under the warm sun had been enough without letting it stand in stooks or draping it on the hedges . |
| 5 | At their disposal were a ludicrously inadequate army and an administrative machine so primitive that one observer in the early eighteenth century alleged that the tiny Italian city-state of Lucca possessed a larger civil service than they . |
| 6 | The conventions are so rigorous that any break with them would require a new genre ; the editorial leaflet makes this clear enough : |
| 7 | For , as Kalven and Zeisel noted , often when juries acquit of rape , their ‘ stance is not so much that involuntary intercourse under these circumstances is no crime at all , but rather does not have the gravity of rape . ’ |
| 8 | Eventually , according to Laplace , v increased so much that centrifugal force at the edge of the nebula overcame the gravitational force exerted by the mass , and a ring of material broke away . |
| 9 | 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 ] . |
| 10 | I practised so hard that several windows of the house were broken , and my ball was confiscated for a week , which broke the concentration as well as the window . |
| 11 | Their protection was , at least for a time , so stringent that significant numbers of poachers were exiled to the colonies . |
| 12 | It was Pippin 's help which ensured that the ensuing battle would be fierce , Pippin 's arrival that made Lothar feel so confident that that night in his camp Archbishop George of Ravenna ( an Italian supporter who had invested hugely in Lothar 's cause ) promised him that " Charles should be tonsured tomorrow " — hence , excluded forever from kingly power . |
| 13 | The importance of readability has been upheld for so long that all manner of methods have been devised for its measurement . |
| 14 | This government has been in office so long that this view of personal freedom has become written into detailed policy and into legal planning advice . |
| 15 | The Russians are so bureaucratic that any gems of intelligence they might cull are lost in a mass of trivial dross . |
| 16 | Yes now what I meant was that , that erm in a group like this , the the th th the leader or the leadership role may be relatively minimal and the individualism of the members may be relevant , but I hope it was cos I I think it 's a mistake for class in groups and that so one would hope in this kind of group , the individual variation would be so important that these kind of group phenomena that Freud is talking about in this book but clearly in other groups they 're they 're more important , partly because you can never organize a group by kind of having a meeting with everybody . |
| 17 | Competition for places in high status universities is so enormous that after-school attendance at expensive private crammer schools is virtually compulsory . |
| 18 | The extent of this digestion makes it difficult even to identify the prey animals , and the teeth are so fragile that any disturbance of these specimens during transport or burial would be likely to destroy them completely . |
| 19 | He therefore sees no point in trying to enforce statutory instructions that are so unclear that any reliance on them would be speculative , so vague that they can not aid coordination in any case . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Although this size is larger than those granules advocated in Chronic Diseases ( 200 to a grain ) they are still so small that one drop of the alcoholic LM 1 liquid can completely wet at least 500 of them . |
| 22 | The advent of the success is so delightful that all thoughts of learning from it are banished . |
| 23 | In the North , for example , a team from Leicester University 's Labour Market Studies Group has found that job prospects are so bleak that clear signs of an underclass are apparent for those for whom ‘ normal morality is inverted and educational achievement is undervalued , . |
| 24 | One of the least known owls in the world , very rarely reliably observed in the field ; upperparts buff with greyer wings and distinct golden collar ; Tawny Owl can be so pale that unfeathered toes of Hume 's are only really good distinction ; perhaps black-tipped crown feathers would show a darker crown in the field . |
| 25 | The deposits are , in the main , so marginal that large companies with financial muscle are required to exploit them . |
| 26 | They were forced to sit so close that each wrinkle of the boredom on the man 's face was apparent . |
| 27 | Today in Western Europe and North America , overt cruelty to domestic animals is rare — so rare that flagrant violation of commonly accepted treatment is newsworthy and universally condemned . |
| 28 | And he says that is why he finds it so galling that one episode in the new series has trees growing right up to the line , which would never happen and describes how one of the engines used to stop to enjoy the view . |
| 29 | It can also be made to sound so sharp that any movement of the fretting hand on the strings causes a loud squeak , but even set with this much top there 's still quality to the tone . |
| 30 | It was on the basis of this kind of observation that Morgan decided that there once existed in Polynesia a social order when sexual relations within one generation were so unspecific that all men of the ascending generation were ‘ fathers ’ and all women of the ascending generation were ‘ mothers ’ . |