Example sentences of "is so [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | That Lalande and other French composers of his time , notably Charpentier , were often being deliberately Italian in style is so well documented that surely it is self-evident , especially in faster movements such as ‘ Et rege eos ’ , marked with the unambiguous Italian expression vivace by Lalande in his autograph score ( Cauvin and the 1729 edition employ légèrement and tres légèrement respectively ) , and the final vite sections ( ‘ Non confundar ’ ) , that equal fast notes are called for ? |
| 2 | As a result , our eyesight is so well developed that few animals possess comparable vision , and we are justified in considering it our supersense . |
| 3 | Sadly I have not read this but I am such a fan of the author and he is so well connected that he gets reviews everywhere , and I just wanted to slip it in . |
| 4 | Another proof of her social status among the hawkers is her working spot : it is so well located that she if she decides to move she could ‘ sell ’ the right to use it to another vendor . |
| 5 | Although the rail journey involves a change of trains , the timetable of services is so well co-ordinated that the change is no great inconvenience . |
| 6 | Tabasco is so well known that it is to pepper sauces what Hoover is to vacuum cleaners . |
| 7 | It is so well known that women who smoke risk giving birth to underweight babies that the labels on cigarette packets in America caution that ‘ smoking may complicate pregnancy . ’ |
| 8 | The English love affair with Tuscany is so well known that in the last century hotel porters in Siena called all foreigners English , even if they were German or Russian . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He stood and watched for a while but everything connected with seamanship is so majestically slow that he began to feel guilty of time wasting while the little vessel was still being manoeuvred through the gap . |
| 11 | A delicate building , it is so intricately decorated that it is difficult to tell which parts are original and which later modifications . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The assumption that all groups in the ‘ not-men ’ class are identical with each other is so firmly rooted that , as we shall see in the fourth section , it is readily assumed even by modern libertarian thinkers that showing that , for example , some ground for distinguishing between men and women is false or irrelevant , immediately commits us to the view that the same ground is irrelevant in distinguishing men from children . |
| 14 | Since this subject is so important , it is a pity the book is so badly constructed that it lacks authority . |
| 15 | A shop manager who was beaten up and threatened with having his ears cut off is so badly traumatised that he 's still been unable to describe his ordeal to police . |
| 16 | No student should be penalised for misspellings unless a word is so badly spelt that it can not be understood . |
| 17 | It 's tempting to think that Windows is so carefully organized that you do n't have to understand much about these processes at all . |
| 18 | Foods that do not sustain microbial growth , such as bread , or raw produce which is so heavily contaminated that the bacterial loading on a surface is insignificant , are not likely to require handling on disinfected surfaces . |
| 19 | It is often given solo passages to play , and its tone is so intrinsically striking that entirely unaccompanied phrases are not infrequently allotted to it . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Chris is so emotionally paralysed that he has spent two years wooing Ann , who has been working in New York , through the post . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In the large public company it is now accepted as part of conventional wisdom that the shareholding is so widely dispersed that each shareholder does not own a significant enough proportion of the company to perform any of the functions of monitoring and supervising the directors that the legal model casts upon him . |
| 24 | This is not one of the five Sisters , but is so closely related that its inclusion makes sense . |
| 25 | Genette 's discussion of Proust is so far reaching that his book can be regarded as much as a reading of A la recherche as a contribution to narrative theory , and to this extent it represents a challenge to the generic distinctions normally made in structuralist thinking between poetics and criticism . |
| 26 | On the one hand , it may well be felt that an old person 's wish to stay with a carer should be respected unless their mental state is so gravely impaired that they literally do not know what they are doing . |
| 27 | Certainly general policies , such as those reproduced in part below , could have the effect not only of preventing but abating existing odour nuisance , the county council having recognised that in most cases where odour pollution causes problems , the source of the odour is either close to residential property or industry is so densely concentrated that the total odour emission is unacceptable . |
| 28 | Practically all the land above 1,500 feet falls into this category and a great deal of it is so poorly drained that only the sourest peaty soils are found . |
| 29 | But this turnover is so extraordinarily slow that each grain could only have been exposed during the last 4600 Ma for a total time much less than a million years thus requiring considerably higher cosmic-ray intensities in the past , which though possible is thought by several scientists to be unlikely . |
| 30 | 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 . |