Example sentences of "[noun] so great " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pace of ideation is for the most part so great that a more formal procedure of idea-handling would be obstructive and pointless . |
| 2 | In his work , theoretically relying both on Freudianism and on variations of Parsonian functionalism , which sees the biological , egalitarian family as the culmination of the modernising process , he argues that the rise in illegitimacy can be traced to a change in the attitude towards sex of lower-class women , a change so great as to amount to a sexual revolution . |
| 3 | In the naked fear of falling in a space so huge that she did not know whether she was falling up or down , inward or outward , she met a fear so great that it burned away forever all the other fears . |
| 4 | Perhaps the most basic human fear is that of loneliness or separation — a fear so great that many people will endure loveless and even abusive relationships , rather than face living alone . |
| 5 | New care management systems of assessment without provision do not rest easily with training which has equipped the worker to provide direct care , and there is some evidence that workers find the disincentives so great that they will resign from such posts ( Huxley and Kerfoot , 1992 ) . |
| 6 | We are soon informed of how his wealth is made public knowledge in lines that suggest his generosity with his riches could be extravagance ; an imprudent use and showing of wealth — and his wife — rather than a wise one : This noble marchaunt heeld a worthy hous For which he hadde alday so great repair For his largesse ( and for his wyf was fair ) That wonder is … |
| 7 | The 1980s have seen an increasing North-South regional polarisation , a de-industrialisation of the old heartlands of British industry so great that one can understand why it has been said that the working class have a nostalgia for industry , a decline in welfare provision for those most in need , a redistribution of taxation in favour of the well-off and — as distressingly revealed during the miners ' strike of 1984–5 — the growth of a national paramilitary form of policing acting on behalf of a government determined to weaken trade unionism while British capitalism restructures itself . |
| 8 | For indeed I can not think my fault so great in this matter that was a point of conscience with me as to stand in need of your forgiveness . |
| 9 | At nights , particularly , she had felt loneliness so great it was as if a hole had been torn in her soul , something irreplaceable had been ripped from her . |
| 10 | The realisation left him with a feeling of anguish so great that it threatened to engulf him . |
| 11 | The judgment , for example , that the sample size is sufficient and the observed difference so great that chance may be dismissed can and should be made when one is confident that the decision is ‘ obvious ’ . |
| 12 | This particular person had found the shock so great that she had not been able to acknowledge it at all except by taking this evading action . |
| 13 | I consider the distress of the farmers so great that nothing can be done to save many from absolute ruin . |
| 14 | For there was about her cage a silence and stillness so great that it seemed as if she had disappeared . |
| 15 | In England and Wales we are singularly placed to appreciate the relationship of scenery and structure , for few other parts of the earth 's surface show in a similar small area so great a diversity of rock types and of landscape features : " Britain is a world by itself " ; its mountains are not high , nor its rivers long , but within a few hundred miles of travel from east to west one may see more varieties of scenery than are to be found in many bigger countries . |
| 16 | The belief that mid-nineteenth-century bourgeois were unusually full-blooded and therefore obliged to build unusually impenetrable defences against physical temptation is unconvincing : what made the temptations so great was precisely the extremism of the accepted moral standards , which also made the fall correspondingly more dramatic , as in the case of the Catholic-puritan Count Muffat in Emile Zola 's Nana , the novel of prostitution in the Paris of the 1860s . |
| 17 | The other species of predator examined ( see Tables 2.3 and 2.4 ) but not included in Table 3.5 all produce degrees of breakage so great that the skulls are essentially unrecognizable . |
| 18 | When Yeats first laid eyes on Maud Gonne , in 1889 , ‘ the trembling of my life began ’ , he said , ‘ I had never thought to see in a living creature so great beauty … it belonged to famous pictures , to poetry , to some legendary past . ’ |
| 19 | She was trembling , aflame with a happiness so great she thought she could never contain it as Rune discarded his own clothes with such rapidity and lack of care that two shirt buttons fell unheeded on to the carpet . |
| 20 | On October 6 , he wrote her a letter : ‘ Dear Susan , Never have I known a love so great , nor suffered so greatly love 's penalty … |
| 21 | And as the cold metal slid down her back , and the soft cloth fell loose around her shoulders , she felt a feeling of liberation so great that she wanted to cry out . |
| 22 | The factor that may be decisive in explaining why the oil industry produced in west Thurso so great and prolonged an excess at ages 5–24 is the large number of incomers already associated with the nuclear industry . |
| 23 | Carbon dioxide will be the supreme test of commitment and anti-pollution technology , but , as has been noted before , it is so omnipresent , its natural cycle so great and its sources and sinks so difficult to determine accurately ( one assessment in early 1990 downgraded the amount mopped up by the oceans by 50 per cent but came to no firm conclusion about where the unaccounted for remainder went ) , so closely linked with economic growth and its man-made sources so hard and expensive to restrain that it is difficult to imagine a protocol which will be globally effective . |
| 24 | We had been plied with hospitality so great that no one could go away hungry . |
| 25 | I marvel at the way so great a power is falling so gentle on the earth . |
| 26 | The generations of this century will , in their turn , hand on to the next generation the archaic unconscious problems , unless the guilt becomes too strong , the rebellion so great , the need to kill and be killed so overwhelming that we hand on nothing at all . |
| 27 | She of course is in a hurry to return to Rome where she left a sweetheart and has offered to do the ironing there to save on laundry expenses so great is her anxiety to be taken . |
| 28 | It granted him strength and power so great that he would n't need his enabling potions . |
| 29 | His power so great . |
| 30 | He loved her too much even to be able to imagine such a thing ; Pavel 's was the love of Judas , a devotion so great that it encompassed even betrayal . |