Example sentences of "is so [adv] [verb] that it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tabasco is so well known that it is to pepper sauces what Hoover is to vacuum cleaners . |
| 2 | Hick played what in others is a plain forward-defensive shot but for him is so sweetly timed that it brings four through mid-off . |
| 3 | A delicate building , it is so intricately decorated that it is difficult to tell which parts are original and which later modifications . |
| 4 | Dr Estelle Ramey , professor emeritus of physiology at Georgetown University School of Medicine , USA , explains that ‘ your system is so delicately balanced that it 's very difficult for your body to make two types of hormones at once . |
| 5 | Since this subject is so important , it is a pity the book is so badly constructed that it lacks authority . |
| 6 | No student should be penalised for misspellings unless a word is so badly spelt that it can not be understood . |
| 7 | And here was the bonus : the positive charge of the proton is so effectively shielded that it will now be able to encroach much closer to the nucleus of a neighbouring atom without being repelled ; the chance of bumping into it and undergoing nuclear fusion , ‘ cold fusion ’ , thereby became a real possibility . |
| 8 | If one were to peruse the extensive range of surveys of the applications of the rational expectations hypothesis to macroeconomics , one would come across a different framework of analysis , one which is so widely accepted that it is rarely explained in any detail , still less is its theoretical basis probed critically or its conclusions called into question . |
| 9 | If your holiday plan is so tightly organised that it allows for no days off , and no travel delays , it 's time to think again . |
| 10 | Power is so seductively close that it is easy to forget that in British politics the winner takes all , or to believe that this time it all will come right and they can themselves grasp power without conceding any . |
| 11 | Timber which is so severely honeycombed that it is virtually useless — termed ‘ frass ’ — is likely to coincide with the sapwood content of structural timber . |
| 12 | Given a set of forces and an assurance that equilibrium prevails , the human sense of balance is so finely developed that it directs us to their focus . |
| 13 | It is so cleverly written that it is impossible to put into my words , everything inside the plot seems to the reader to be perfect . |
| 14 | If a theory is so vaguely stated that it is not clear exactly what it is claiming , then , when tested by observation or experiment it can always be interpreted so as to be consistent with the results of those tests . |