Example sentences of "is so [verb] [that] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I wish I could join him in the corridor , but now it is so crammed that there is no room . |
| 32 | This is the part where there is a surfaced footway or pavement but at present it is so overgrown that pedestrians have to walk on the road . |
| 33 | One torso is so weathered that little can be said but that it does seem to show the same primitive technique as Nikandre 's . |
| 34 | One man ( Adrian Dunbar ) is so smitten that he commits suicide while the other , travelling player Aidan Quinn , turns all his thespian charm on Tara , much to Hegarty 's annoyance . |
| 35 | I now see that Travis is so smitten that he would n't accept anything but that , meeting me for the first time when I called at your apartment , you at once became very much attracted to me . |
| 36 | It produces no smoke , and its heat output is so controlled that it is not much warmer than the surrounding air and therefore hard for infra-red devices to detect . |
| 37 | ( It should be made clear that , in the vast majority of cases , the poison is so aged that its potency is thought to be negligible . ) |
| 38 | Nevertheless his choreographic plan is so designed that each movement of every dancer , whether as an individual or part of the group , is co-ordinated with the others so that it fits correctly into the overall pattern and within the space allotted by stage , wings and backcloth which — in Symphonic Variations — delicately echoes the curving lines or the dance . |
| 39 | Yet if the dances of Vera and Natalia in A Month in the Country and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet are examined it will be discovered how the technical content is so designed that the steps , poses and gestures show how changing circumstances are affecting the individuals . |
| 40 | Bearwood is so designed that the ladies get no closer to the offices than the door between the transverse and the butler 's corridor . |
| 41 | The project resource sheet is so designed that once you 've allocated the resources , it is now relatively easy to transfer those res resources over to the project plan . |
| 42 | The new equipment is so advanced that , theoretically , a single IECC could handle BR 's entire signalling requirements . |
| 43 | Harris perceived that the I-Thou relationship is represented perfectly adequately by By frequently limiting his scope to I and Thou Shakespeare is creating an interpersonal field which is so restricted that thoughts , ideas , feelings move back and forth between sender and receiver without the need for any other delimitation or definition . |
| 44 | Our creativity is so undervalued that going onto that empty space means that we are saying , look at me , I 'm alive ! |
| 45 | It is now necessary to consider when a commercial transaction is so structured that it can not be said that the parties are dealing on standard terms at all . |
| 46 | If , however , a society is so divided that it contains within itself one or more permanent minorities , who know that on the issues that matter most to them they can never hope to get their way , precisely because of the operation of the majority principle , then that principle ceases to be adequate . |
| 47 | On many issues , the convergence with the Liberal Democrats is so marked that there may be mileage in cross-party initiatives . |
| 48 | Iago 's superiority over the six people he directly deceives ( and behind them , of course , the whole of society ) is so marked that we risk endorsing his contempt for whichever ‘ snipe ’ , ‘ knave ’ , or ‘ ass ’ he happens to be manipulating . |
| 49 | The influence of national political considerations on local electoral behaviour is so marked that Newton considers that ‘ the term ‘ local election ’ is something of a misnomer … . |
| 50 | That the phenomenon of demographic transition exists is unquestionable though , nowadays , the timescale of change is so condensed that the metamorphosis of a developing country may appear superficially different from that of eighteenth-century Europe . |
| 51 | These costs of consent to political authority suggest that , on instrumental grounds , consent can only be held binding if it is so qualified that its effect is almost entirely confined to reinforcing independently existing obligations to obey . |