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

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1 The increased order is so strong that no neuro-electric message can fight it — a special EM field has to be applied .
2 Yet in a country where the pull of the past is so strong and the future so tantalising , it is best when you are travelling to live exclusively in the present .
3 There are a number of modelling programs suitable for use on microcomputers at a price which is so low that a complete system often costs less than the terminals used merely to communicate with larger computers .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 The lintel is so low that the only man who can enter is the man who is down on his knees .
7 Life expectancy is so low that the average life span of men just before we got here ( in the last quarter of the seventeenth century ) was 29.6 years .
8 Now gradually the energy level is so low that the in although the insulin level is there , there 's no sugar for it to work with , so now your casualty will start showing signs of too little sugar .
9 In practice the probability of such words occurring in adjacent positions is so low that the problem is negligible .
10 Recall that it exists where the interest rate is so low that the demand for money becomes perfectly interest-elastic .
11 Visual acuity is often normal even when the field of vision is so poor that the child is registered as blind .
12 ‘ The unsuitability of the jury system in cases of this kind is so apparent that the Government must look at the whole process , ’ he said .
13 It is said that the stench is so appalling that no one can go near them now .
14 The world of parliamentary publications in Britain is a daunting one for the beginning researcher , but the range of information available from governmental and quasi-governmental sources is so vast that no researcher dare ignore it .
15 But for larger numbers of mutational steps , even in the case of the biomorphs with their nine little genes , the mathematical space of all possible trajectories is so vast that the chance of two trajectories ever arriving at the same point becomes vanishingly small .
16 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 .
17 What I find very frightening is the campaign by Sir Thomas Hetherington in particular who erm as reported in the newspapers has said that there are er a handful , 3 or 4 people whom he has singled out , and he says the evidence is prima facie evidence against them , is so overwhelming that the law of England must be radically changed in order to bring a prosecution against them , and , as Lord Shawcroft said , well how , in such circumstances , could such people have a fair trial when we 've had the er Hetherington the former Attorney General saying , in effect , we know these people are guilty , we 're changing the law to prosecute them , and now you members of the jury must n't on any account er think er in er you must judge completely impartially .
18 Crying apart , there are no songs of the calibre of Pretty Woman but that big dramatic voice is so overwhelming and the production so superb , that it 's a worthwhile record by any standards .
19 Their concept of domination is so complete that the ‘ dominated ’ virtually disappears as an active historical subject .
20 But Judge Robin David told Dodman : ‘ This matter is so serious that a custodial sentence is inevitable .
21 But Judge Robin David told Dodman : ‘ This matter is so serious that a custodial sentence is inevitable . ’
22 Since the collapse of communist rule in 1989 some improvements to the cityscape have been made , but the damage to buildings is so serious that the government has declared the city a disaster zone .
23 Coun Gilchrist said : ‘ The situation is so serious that the whole system is creaking under the strain .
24 The resemblance is so close that a human can easily mistake the new song for the sound of a trimphone .
25 The election is so close that the slightest shift in voter opinion during the next 80 to 90 hours not only could , but probably would , determine the outcome .
26 It is used when the food source is so close that the recruits will have no difficulty in finding it without being told the direction .
27 Seasonal work is so uncertain that the pickers are forced to work whatever the conditions just to make a few extra pesos .
28 Its use in the instance quoted is so straightforward that no special attention needed to be drawn to it .
29 The whole connection is so slight that the legend only appears in tourist-orientated guide books of the twentieth century .
30 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 .
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