Example sentences of "that [is] so [adv] " in BNC.

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1 But it remains to be seen whether this somewhat confused mixture of ideologies represents a realistic and coherent guiding force for the type of global change in human values that is so urgently needed at this time .
2 When we begin to appreciate more clearly and with greater precision how and why so many Third World countries are locked into a global system that is so patently against the interests of the majority of their peoples , we may find one of the keys to the development puzzle , and a valuable clue as to how the global system currently works .
3 Yet it 's arguable that the Germanic qualities that are prevalent in Wand 's conception are entirely appropriate to a composition that is so closely modelled on Bach 's Brandenburg Concertos .
4 The purpose of this chapter is to identify the places where specialist collections of more than local importance may be found , as well as indicating the kind of local material that is so freely accessible .
5 I look forward to seeing the amendments that will be tabled by my right hon. Friend for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) and others when they look in a measured way at the Bill and seek to amend it to provide the support for the prison service that is so desperately needed .
6 Now this is an argument that is so intellectually contemptible that you can hardly be bothered to demolish it .
7 He condemns the monk : at the same time as he acknowledges the monk 's ingenuity that has provided him with his sexual reward : This monk does not suffer the retributive poetic justice that is so frequently met with by lecherous clerics in the French fabliaux .
8 The significant point , at least according to Huxley , is that the allometric variation that is so clearly observable between different sized individuals of the same species , can also be observed between animals of different size in different ( though related ) species .
9 So why does she continue so vociferously to float IWC moratoria , and adopt such a recalcitrant attitude towards an industry that is so obviously in decline ?
10 It 's a frequent irritation however that British television companies are n't obliged to give the credit that is so manifestly due , especially since , in the last few years , the quality and range of recorded music for dramas and documentaries has become as almost diverse as that used in European cinema over the last few decades .
11 Externalized graphic , plastic , dramatic , or electronic representations make up the ‘ media ’ and provide that cultural environment that is so inextricably intercalated with the biology of the performers and the physicality of the environment .
12 Some students have been placed in difficulties by local authorities that have set a community charge that is so far beyond the reach of people that even the 20 per cent .
13 This is a stimulating and rewarding read , providing insight into why and how a writer operates , as well as creating interest in Scottish and Irish poetry that is so often neglected by the English establishment .
14 There was certainly not the constant locking , unlocking and clanging of doors nor was there the feeling of oppression that is so often felt when moving around most prisons .
15 In terms of the content of this newer work — the question that is so often evaded — it is probably true to say that much of it has been ultimately concerned with the processes and exercise of power .
16 You do n't need to be a programmer ; there 's no code to write , and you do n't even have to adopt the programmer 's mindset that is so often a prerequisite for building advanced database applications .
17 They are not even about the accessibility of services , and they are certainly not about the development of economic and social policies — something that is so often ignored in the scramble to fragment and disintegrate what was built up over the last century by local government people of all political persuasions .
18 It avoided the mistake that is so often made .
19 ‘ I can only do it when we 're in the middle of a conversation and you look at me speculatively and then say something anodyne in a voice that is so deliberately empty of judgment I can practically feel the strength of will you are exerting to keep it so , ’ said David with the hint of a laugh in his deep voice .
20 We are not just talking power-dressing for women ; Armani makes men look even better than the fairer sex in a way that 's so thoroughly macho it 's no wonder the world 's aggro merchants have taken him to their hearts as eagerly as Hollywood 's glitterati .
21 A touch of a button is all that 's needed to change your sleeping position to one that 's so much more relaxing .
22 But with the really buttery taste that 's so obviously lacking in other low fat spreads .
23 I , he er wants to have an image about the Labour Party that 's so far from the reality that it 's not true .
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