Example sentences of "[noun sg] is so [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The interruption is so violent that we are led to infer other reasons for such a display besides his annoyance with McKendrick himself and , significantly , Stoppard 's comments hint at this in the words " uncharacteristic " and surprising " . |
| 2 | The pain of the individual 's sense of loss is so great that he withdraws from relating to any object he perceives as having authority as a way of masking the pain . |
| 3 | Do not attempt to tie a tourniquet unless you have severed an artery and blood loss is so fast that you must stop the flow quickly . |
| 4 | Recommendations may include safety factors in practical areas , for instance , home economics or chemistry , and suggested alternative activities in cases where sight loss is so severe that the general activity is inappropriate , for example , judo or weight lifting instead of football . |
| 5 | The power of celluloid is so seductive that we 're often unaware of how all-pervasive — and persuasive — its message can be . |
| 6 | To people who do eat pork , the Sulawesi warty pig is so good that it was worth domesticating , and it is the only pig besides the Eurasian wild boar to have become part of the human farmyard . |
| 7 | Also , the neck is so straight that the frets have needed hardly any dressing at all . |
| 8 | And their arousal is so intense that if the owl finally departs they will still go on mobbing for a long while afterwards , as though they can not calm down to a normal level of activity until some considerable time has passed . |
| 9 | However , it appears that most ventures are characterized by investments in a project where the uncertainty is so great that it is not possible to evaluate it by means of ordinary criteria for analysis of projects . |
| 10 | The foreman of his jury wrote a letter to " The Times " : " Where a jury has to decide , as men and women of the world , " how much " " , the degree of uncertainty is so great that a random answer , consistent only with a total lack of any sort of yardstick , can be expected . |
| 11 | In fact the uncertainty is so wide that is doubtful if the forecast would be of much value . |
| 12 | The analogy is so close that Alan Kimmel of Fitchburg State College describes rumour ( New York Science Times , June 4 1991 ) as a sort of opportunistic virus that thrives on fear and uncertainty . |
| 13 | Cocaine is so inexpensive that most heroin injectors like to have both drugs in the mix at the same time . |
| 14 | The Mid-Craven Fault is so deep that if you were to look south of Malham for the limestone that you see on Gordale Scar you would have to drill many thousands of feet below the earth 's surface before you came to it . |
| 15 | Amusingly , the car is so big that when the team was doing the full-size tape and paint drawings , the normal rolls were not long enough . |
| 16 | The snow is so white that it reflects any available light . |
| 17 | However , the number of people who return to education once they have left school or college is so low that the age of finishing full-time education is often used as a simple indicator . |
| 18 | The clubhead is changing from going up to coming down and the resultant force is so great that the wrists break more fully … if you 're relaxed . |
| 19 | In fact the force is so great that a concentrated jet from the water is capable of cutting straight through concrete . |
| 20 | In the case of the weak interaction the ‘ balls ’ must be very heavy , because the force is so feeble and has such a short range : it would be difficult to throw a rugby ball made of lead very far , very often . |
| 21 | and because the Buckinary is so big and really warrants having a stag group over that neck of the woods |
| 22 | If Pollard 's architecture is so disposable and flippant that it is odd to call him a ‘ patron ’ , Palumbo 's patronage is so single-minded that he can hardly be called a developer . |
| 23 | We believe that no one should be found guilty of a crime unless the statute or other piece of legislation establishing that crime is so clear that he must have known his act was criminal , or would have known if he had made any serious attempt to discover whether it was . |
| 24 | The gap is so big because the Greeks have never managed to build up much of an industry . |
| 25 | Anything approaching within a distance 2GM/c 2 of the centre is inevitably trapped by the intense gravitational field : space–time is so warped that not even light can escape . |
| 26 | At the surface of radius r the term ( ) in the Schwarzschild metric becomes zero ; the curvature of space–time is so severe that we can only hope to give a consistent account of conditions using GR . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , the greenhouse effect is so efficient that this energy becomes trapped to the extent that it drives up the surface temperatures to the observed values . |
| 28 | We now know this to be true of all the planets ; however , the effect is so small that only in the case of Mercury was it detectable by nineteenth-century astronomers . |
| 29 | The effect is so fascinating that my friend has pockets full of peppermint bits and a sizable bill for Polo and Trebor , the mints that give the best results . |
| 30 | The whole effect is so convincing that flies not only visit flower after flower , transporting the stapelia 's pollen , but even complete the activity for which they visit real carrion — laying their eggs on the flower just as they do in a carcass . |