Example sentences of "are so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The blocks are produced because andesite lavas are so viscous that they flow as plastic , rather than liquid , materials and consist of an outer chilled surface of solid rock with a steady progression towards increasing plasticity in the hotter , central parts of the flow . |
| 2 | Glasses behave as they do because , while they are cooling , they are so viscous that the molecules do not have time to sort themselves out into crystals and so cool glass is a solidified liquid , not a crystalline solid . |
| 3 | What persuades Quine , however , is not that his examples are so convincing but that he knows that there must be some examples , and these look like the best candidates . |
| 4 | This and other scientific statements are so convincing ( and get away with being called ‘ laws ’ ) because they appear to determine what will happen in the future . |
| 5 | I am amazed that men are so sanguine about this food-for-sex thing … |
| 6 | The more I think about it the more I am amazed that men are so sanguine about this food-for-sex thing . |
| 7 | So really and truly I mean it 's not all nurses that are so stressed . |
| 8 | The case of the Tari Furora paralleled that of the Melanesians in ‘ Marie Lloyd ’ , but it is to his ideal City , and his actual urban Western civilization that Eliot relates this Papuan discovery : ‘ … if we are so helpless in the hands of our ‘ civilization ’ that we admit our inability to prevent it from ruining Papuans , what hope have we of saving ourselves ? ’ |
| 9 | Although most shrub roses make strong self-supporting growth , a few are so lax and flexible that mature specimens have far greater width than height . |
| 10 | They are so boring . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ But the lessons are so boring , Sir , ’ I replied . |
| 12 | If your feelings are so tender about your damned legs , tell him that Aggie was enquirin' about her . |
| 13 | There are , the book argued , many ways of ‘ being at home in the town ’ , with many examples of good practice already visible today in maturing towns ; in densely populated areas with narrow streets ; in ‘ a celebratory way ’ by making a quiet little green island at the opening of a street ; in a new town ; in existing residential areas where the space around the houses and garages is used to make a series of squares and narrowings ; or ‘ in a happy way ’ where flowers and trees are so colourful that parked cars are less intrusive . |
| 14 | The chromosomes of E. coli and salmonella are so similar that there are long stretches of identical DNA in the two organisms . |
| 15 | As the objectives for online orientation are so similar for both end-users and intermediaries , it is reasonable to assume that orientation programmes can be produced which can be useful in the teaching of both groups . |
| 16 | Medical research has also put pressure on chimpanzee and cotton-top tamarin populations , many are captured live and exported for experimentation because biologically they are so similar to humans . |
| 17 | Nowadays , because the symptoms are so similar , it is often lumped together under the general name ‘ Cystitis ’ . |
| 18 | Such tests are rarely used nowadays , possibly because the concepts of overinclusive and divergent thinking are so similar and , in themselves , have little diagnostic value for differentiating the mad from the merely original . |
| 19 | If the rates for non-publication in entomology and in the present study are so similar , then extrapolation to other scientific disciplines within the UK university system suggests that far too little importance is attached to the dissemination of research results in this country by the bodies funding such research . |
| 20 | If the rates for non-publication in entomology and in the present study are so similar , then extrapolation to other scientific disciplines within the UK university system suggests that far too little importance is attached to the dissemination of research results in this country by the bodies funding such research . |
| 21 | Agonists are substances which are so similar to a specific neurotransmitter they can occupy that neurotransmitter 's receptor perfectly . |
| 22 | Apart from guaranteeing the independence of central bankers , the scheme would also usefully encourage them in those habits of prudence and careful husbandry which are so necessary to their calling . |
| 23 | Efficient management of the political parties in the nineties can not carry permanent numbers of young professionals whose talents are so necessary in major campaigns . |
| 24 | Derelict land is resilient , robust and interesting , providing private areas that are so necessary to children — land to dirt-track on which cowboys and indians are for real , and ponds to sail boats that never do . |
| 25 | if their answers are so private they do |
| 26 | You are so conceited and smug ! |
| 27 | Is this why you are so unhappy ? ’ |
| 28 | These foreigners are so greedy there 's never anything left over for supper . |
| 29 | First Fraser , managing director of Neill 's : The men are so greedy . |
| 30 | Thomas found himself ill-equipped to answer this bidding call effectively : This doubt of myself is the more powerful , because I see how all along my senses are so powerful . |