Example sentences of "of [noun] is so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further , the rate of progress is so rapid that what one learns at school or university is always a bit out of date . |
| 2 | The most fundamental difference to me has always been that the private sector is so much more dynamic — the rate of change is so great . |
| 3 | Soon the fog of freedom is so thick that it is difficult to remember just what song they were supposed to be playing in the first place . |
| 4 | In the vague reference to " his needs " in the last sentence we even get a glimpse of why the question of money is so important for him . |
| 5 | The department of industry is so impressed its organised a conference so that other businesses can see the process in action . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | McClellan has written that ‘ the knowledge of books is so important a requirement in each factor of book provision that an organisation of staff based on bibliography seems self-evident ’ . |
| 8 | The idea of animals is so strange . |
| 9 | First , the very fact that this standard of review is so limited means that it will only serve as a long stop to catch extreme examples of aberrant administrative behaviour . |
| 10 | Their protagonists argue that the law of murder is so important socially that derogation from the principle of maximum certainty should be allowed in favour of more accurate labelling by the courts ; opponents argue that the principle of maximum certainty is needed here specifically to reduce the risk of verdicts based on discriminatory or irrelevant factors , such as distaste for the defendant 's background , allegiance , or other activities . |
| 11 | The electronic popular music of rock is so different in form and function from the old print-based pop of ‘ moon and June ’ , and so akin to the old pre-literate oral forms of folk music , that most of the assumptions made today about the relations between the two are misguided , based on theories devised at a time when the complete destruction of folk culture by the industrial state seemed only a matter of time . |
| 12 | However , these arguments are not particularly strong , for , if the inference of fault is so great , why not include a requirement of proof of fault , at least at the level of subjective recklessness ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The power of celluloid is so seductive that we 're often unaware of how all-pervasive — and persuasive — its message can be . |
| 16 | The surprise is not that an accountant stands for Labour while an iron and steel worker is an Alliance candidate , but rather that the class basis of the two sets of candidates is so distinct . |
| 17 | Am I being told that the law of England is so deficient that , if one assaults a person by driving a car at them to the danger of that person 's life or property — whether or not one damages either — that is not a crime known to the common law of England , and would it not attract the most condign penalties ? |
| 18 | Right down this other end of the curve the level of anxiety is so high that performance is zero , that 's when you freeze . |
| 19 | There are some whose fear of instability is so great that they would prefer a return to the old divisions . |
| 20 | The current level of intelligence is so poor that over half the members of active service units on the mainland have no previous police or intelligence ‘ form ’ ( which is one reason why internment would not work ) . |
| 21 | Suppose the origin of intelligence is so improbable that it has happened on only one planet in the universe , even though life has started on many planets . |
| 22 | It applies whenever the defendant raises the defences of justification and fair comment , and will apply if the defence is to be qualified privilege unless the evidence of malice is so overwhelming that no reasonable jury would sustain the privilege . |
| 23 | But between the practice of the two , the difference of degree is so great as to amount to a difference in kind . |
| 24 | 16 March 1928 : ‘ Probably no department of motoring is so useful to the community as racing , ’ said Sir William Joynson-Hicks , the Home Secretary and chief custodian of the 20mph speed limit , on the occasion of the luncheon for Captain Malcolm Campbell on his return from America , where he travelled faster than any man has succeeded in doing on land . |
| 25 | These days the practice of story-telling is so rare that it has acquired the status of an art form . |
| 26 | It could also be that the chain of distribution is so complicated that margins are pared to nothing . |
| 27 | It 's because people know so little about themselves that their knowledge of nature is so little use to them . |
| 28 | It is very effective and almost shocking when you realise that what he is saying makes complete sense and the uselessness of war is so true as it really achieves very little good if any at all . |
| 29 | The foregoing illustrations emphasise problems of interpretation across cultures , however much of the teaching of Scripture is so plain and obvious that no great intellectual capacity or specialist training is required . |
| 30 | This area of business is so important that the nuclear nations should throw overboard all thought of evenhandedness . |