Example sentences of "system [is] so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At present , this is just not possible in the vast majority of NHS hospitals , because the quality of management information systems is so poor . |
| 2 | The American legal system is so odd that I 've been told I could get Tristram deported in my custody . |
| 3 | This is because the system is so complicated that no historian could use it without explicit support from the AI project group . |
| 4 | One reason for its presence in the USA might be that the American higher education system is so heterogeneous , fulfilling such different functions and admitting such a diversity of students , that questions about the character of the learning experience arise naturally . |
| 5 | Now the new regime want him back to stand trial , but to get extradition they have to establish a prima facie case under British law and their system is so different from ours that their evidence wo n't stand up over here . |
| 6 | The Milton Keynes road system is so incomprehensible that you would be forced to spend the rest of your life driving round and round the ring road with a car full of nicked gear … |
| 7 | The system is so sensitive that the organs can detect changes in temperature as small as 0.003 degrees Celsius , while they can respond to such changes in an incredible 35 milliseconds — many hundreds of times faster than any human-made device . |
| 8 | This system is so sophisticated that the owl can locate and memorise the position of a rustle without even moving its head and , as it swoops , it can align its claws along a mouse 's body guided only by sound . |
| 9 | Secondly because the system is so basic in operation the processing occurs at a rate faster than a human writes . |
| 10 | Since this value system is so pervasive and so accepted there has never really been a need to develop other value systems that arise from actual social situations . |