Example sentences of "so [adj] [conj] it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not so hypocritical as it sounds for Godwin hated violence and war . |
| 2 | The shift is so striking that it has led one commentator ( Young 1984 : 22 ) to talk of an explosion of ‘ civic assertiveness ’ . |
| 3 | In his State of the Union address , delivered to the US Congress on Jan. 31 , President George Bush stated that " the events of the year just ended , the revolution of 1989 , have been a chain reaction — change so striking that it marks the beginning of a new era in the world 's affairs " . |
| 4 | In the absence of legal criteria that distinguish constitutional law from other laws , the definition becomes so broad that it defines nothing at all . |
| 5 | ‘ I think Germany has become so rich that it has completely lost its fighting spirit , ’ said Turkey 's President Turgut Ozal on German television . |
| 6 | German angst over the issue prompted Turkish President Turgut Özal to assert on German television on Jan. 24 that " Germany had become so rich that it has completely lost its fighting spirit " . |
| 7 | If you choose a backing in the middle of the tonal range , such as a bright turquoise green , its colour will be so strong that it overpowers those of the pressed materials . |
| 8 | if you remember the question that the founding fathers faced was how do you create a government which is strong enough to endure and to defend the nation and defend the country yet a government which is not so strong that it erodes the rights of individuals within it , this is the , the essence of the , the problem of government as , as the founding fathers saw it . |
| 9 | In recent years the evidence for the health benefits of fibre , or ‘ roughage ’ as it used to be called , has grown so strong that it has filtered through from the medical journals and is now well known to the British and American public . |
| 10 | At the start of the contact the need to be stroked is so strong that it suppresses their fear . |
| 11 | Christians see the power of God 's love as so strong that it overcomes sin and death . |
| 12 | On one side is the shattering power of time : This feeling of inevitability becomes so strong that it makes the poem comment on itself in surprised awareness — ‘ Oh fearful meditation ! ’ — and pushes on to an apparently unanswerable climax : ‘ Or what strong hand can hold his swift foot back ? / Or who his spoil of beauty can forbid ? ’ |
| 13 | However in this aircraft we have specified a very high degree of re reliability and if you look at the total number of occurrences for each piece of equipment that are going to require maintenance , it 's so low that it does n't justify the provision of maintenance facilities on every base . |
| 14 | No Christology can be so low that it overcomes the feminist difficulty by saying of Jesus that he was no different from every other human who has lived . |
| 15 | ‘ Maybe if you love someone so little that it does n't hurt then it 's not love . |
| 16 | However , William Matteuzzi 's Almaviva is so weak that it requires a considerable stretch of the imagination to picture her preferring the young Count to the lecherous old Dr Bartolo ; and although the late Giuseppe Patane conducts the score with obvious affection , he has little flare for dramatic pacing . |
| 17 | In a sense this is an extreme form of heterogeneous accretion of volatiles , though the separation of planetary accretion from the veneering by volatiles is so complete that it merits separate consideration . |
| 18 | He says drug corruption is now so prevalent that it has tainted the assembly , the courts , and press and television . |
| 19 | This perspective is so prevalent that it has spread far beyond medical , health and welfare agencies to influence fundamentally most people 's approaches to Disabled people . |
| 20 | You need to ask yourself what is so different when it comes to talking to an audience ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I mean that the data on spontaneous abortion is so unmistakable that it seems to me that artificially induced abortions are just a continuation with modern technology of something women have always done anyway discriminate against their ab about their offspring , sometimes discriminating against them . |
| 23 | One of the main planks of the CCAUK 's argument is that the Annual Percentage rate is not so high as it looks , since though most transactions are contracted for ( say ) 26 weeks , in fact they end up being repaid — with no series problem — in about 30 or 33 weeks , with no penalty . |
| 24 | These units could then be regarded as repeatedly subdivisible to the point that the final dimension is so minute that it stands in the same relation to the highest human capacity for feeling as does the single cell to the supreme achievement of cellular development , which is the physical human being . |
| 25 | We saw earlier that the move to greater inequality in income had been so marked that it has triggered off a widening of other class differences ( detailed in Part I ) . |
| 26 | Perhaps by then the Government may have some strategy that will provide work for the million or so unemployed that it overlooks while compiling the official figures . |
| 27 | Sun and wind are so free so it makes sense to use them where possible for power . |
| 28 | These relations between finite coordinate distances are generally so inconvenient that it makes more sense to start calculations from the differentials which do transform linearly : . |
| 29 | He concluded by stating that he had been ‘ compelled to trench on political questions as well as economic — because I feel we are approaching a situation that is so grave that it compares with the War , when we were compelled to act together in self-defence ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ If you love somebody so much that it hurts then you are loving too much . |