Example sentences of "[art] [noun] is [adv] [adj] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His only complaint is that the technique is so simple that other researchers will be able to duplicate it quickly enough to keep up with his group . |
| 2 | Of course I realise that the fallacy is so crude that it would be below the dignity of any academic economist to soil himself with such much . |
| 3 | ‘ But the problem about heroin is that the money is so good that even the good people do it ’ . |
| 4 | A second group is at the opposite extreme of breakage , with no mandibles intact , and this includes the mammalian carnivores , the little owl and most of the diurnal raptors not included in the main analysis ( not included because the damage is so great that hardly any recognizable bone is left in the pellets : see Table 2.1 ) . |
| 5 | Yet the field is so rich that new insights emerge year after year which , alas , are largely restricted to specialists . |
| 6 | The sales potential for technologydriven , ultra-real pornographic and violent experiences via the computer is so great that computer engineers are furiously designing software that will satisfy an otaku 's ‘ sexual ’ needs . |
| 7 | It might seem as though the hypothesis is so slippery that it can not be falsified . |
| 8 | The election is so close that the slightest shift in voter opinion during the next 80 to 90 hours not only could , but probably would , determine the outcome . |
| 9 | Does it matter that the present is so substantial that it is a powerful inducement to marry ? |
| 10 | The slogan is so grey-haired that even at party conferences it would n't get a ripple of applause . |
| 11 | It is one of the commonplaces of interpretation of the Nun 's Priest 's Tale that the reader/listener is spoilt for choice of morals to be drawn from the tale at the end , when the Nun 's Priest refers to the moral with a throwaway carelessness that seems to suggest the moral is so obvious that he need not state it . |
| 12 | Often , of course , the story is so important that they have to cover it , but it goes against the grain to be sweeping up behind another paper 's scoops . |
| 13 | Currency markets , however , take the view that the deficit is so large that only a lower exchange rate will help to speed up the adjustment . |
| 14 | It moves me playing it and it upsets me playing it , it 's very upsetting to play Alfie , because A he 's such a disastrous man as a person d you know you think oh god I do n't really wan na be playing this man for sixteen weeks but the part is so wonderful and the play is so rich that you ca n't help s sort of s submitting to it and putting yourself in the position of being a masochist I suppose . |
| 15 | It is permanently divisive , as well as educationally mean and unadventurous , to establish deliberately a kind of school within which the curriculum is so inward-looking that those who followed it could not , for example , hope to proceed to higher education or ultimately into one of the professions . |
| 16 | The time and dedication demanded do not seem to put people off : the course is so popular that it has had to shift from a country house to a conference centre on an industrial estate in the Midlands . |
| 17 | The interruption is so violent that we are led to infer other reasons for such a display besides his annoyance with McKendrick himself and , significantly , Stoppard 's comments hint at this in the words " uncharacteristic " and surprising " . |
| 18 | It conveys strain and effort ; the psychological rendering of a concentration on each separate moment and the feeling that every moment will be recoverable in memory ( perhaps strobe-like stop-motion would be more logical here , but it could provoke laughter or distraction , a break in concentration on the story ) ; and finally the suggestion that the action is so rapid that it must be slowed down so that it can be perceived at all . |
| 19 | The snow is so white that it reflects any available light . |
| 20 | However , it appears that most ventures are characterized by investments in a project where the uncertainty is so great that it is not possible to evaluate it by means of ordinary criteria for analysis of projects . |
| 21 | In fact the uncertainty is so wide that is doubtful if the forecast would be of much value . |
| 22 | Sometimes and in some places , the labour is so time-consuming that even the most hard-working of parents can not manage it unaided . |
| 23 | In fact the force is so great that a concentrated jet from the water is capable of cutting straight through concrete . |
| 24 | Although the White House had convinced itself that a Labour victory would be perfectly tolerable , the President is undoubtedly pleased that Britain is still being run by a man and a party he knows he can rely on . |
| 25 | The glissando is so rapid that the repetitions of certain notes in it are not heard . |
| 26 | Amusingly , the car is so big that when the team was doing the full-size tape and paint drawings , the normal rolls were not long enough . |
| 27 | The words ‘ reasonably satisfied ’ and ‘ substantially fewer ’ are selected deliberately ; for the alternative is so grave that the choice ought not to be made on only a narrow margin of evidence or probability . |
| 28 | The practice is also concerned that the standard of care may depend on which area a person lives in and what money is available . |
| 29 | The analogy is so close that Alan Kimmel of Fitchburg State College describes rumour ( New York Science Times , June 4 1991 ) as a sort of opportunistic virus that thrives on fear and uncertainty . |
| 30 | The effect is so fascinating that my friend has pockets full of peppermint bits and a sizable bill for Polo and Trebor , the mints that give the best results . |