Example sentences of "so [adj] [is] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what 's so striking is that this great diversity of belief is accompanied by strong convictions of rationality and rectitude . |
| 2 | What makes this year so outstanding is that your ruling planet , Pluto , makes a 90-degree angle to Saturn — something that has n't happened for 20 years . |
| 3 | What makes the sex distribution of these cats so odd is that normally only a female kitten can display black patches inherited from one parent and red tabby patches inherited from the other . |
| 4 | Well , no , there would n't but what 's so odd is that the other horse chestnut trees in the area seem alright . |
| 5 | One of the reasons why play is so absorbing is that it is self-initiated , in a way that is not available to us in the process of combatting , enduring or avoiding the slings and arrows of day-to-day living . |
| 6 | One of the reasons he has become so popular is that he has no ego and refuses to take himself seriously . |
| 7 | What is so interesting is that despite that disastrous performance , Labour 's policies have hardly altered — and they would have the same effect again . |
| 8 | What makes their excessive holidays so wrong is that millions are being forced to take a permanent break from work since they are unemployed . |
| 9 | He added : ‘ What is so appalling is that millions of pounds which should have been invested in children 's education has been squandered in pursuit of electoral advantage . ’ |
| 10 | What makes it so simple is that , once installed , the front-end of Menuworks will take control on booting , and access to your software is then only a cursor key away . |
| 11 | What is so sad is that through all the tinsel shines a reality , but we can not seem to grasp it . |
| 12 | What is so amazing is that this stuff keeps going on . |
| 13 | But lets just notice two or three things in this particular interview , the first thing that we see and its so obvious is that the way of salvation is so wondrously simple , it could n't be easier , you know there are so many people who think it is hard to get saved , who think it is hard to come to Christ and to become a Christian , well the problem is you see the devil has blinded their eyes , they 've blinded the eyes of men and women , so that they think that they ca n't do this , but what is actually happened , Paul tells us in , in , in Carinthians in the first er , in to Carinthians in chapter four and verse four , he says the god of this world has blinded the eyes of the unbelieving that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ , who is the image of god , and there is this shroud , this covering , but the thing is god takes that away so that we can see and so its not difficult to become a Christian , it is not hard to get saved , sometimes as Christians we are guilty of making it difficult for people to become Christians , we put all sorts of rules in , we , we make them undergo various periods of er , of probation before we wer we 've were , were willing to call them Christians , remember the Philippine jailer he cried out there to the apostle Paul who was er in jail there with Silus the , the be , the tremendous earthquake and they were released all their vetoers was , were broken and the prisoners were all , could of escaped and the ja , the Philippine jailer he cries out a question that I 'm sure he does n't even know what he means when he calls it out , he 's not thinking of heaven , he 's not thinking of the future life , he 's not thinking of having his sins dealt with but he just cries out what must I do to be saved and the apostle Paul and he gets , opens the scrolls and he starts in genesis and he explains the plan of salvation and he tells him what he 's got to do and he explains all the requirements and then about three or four hours later the mans mind is completely blurred he does n't understand a word of it , its gone way beyond him |
| 14 | What is so remarkable is that , given the force of the currents in which the Bolsheviks were swimming , Lenin retained such an obstinate consistency in resisting them . |
| 15 | In the court case of June 1790 , Henry Cecil was awarded £1000 damages and a divorce , but what makes the whole story so remarkable is that by this time he was already secretly remarried . |
| 16 | I think what is so degrading is that er women who under God can bring forth life can actually produce death in this place . |
| 17 | One of the main reasons that the display looks so good is that it has been configured to use typographic faces as opposed to conventional typewriter-like text and this advantage has been further heightened by using typographic measurements throughout , each dot on the screen corresponds to 1 point . |
| 18 | Teachers commonly believe that the reason they are so tired is that they have so much to do . |
| 19 | What is so fascinating is that maybe the medieval artists were just as ignorant of Latin . |
| 20 | What makes the study of the English choral renaissance so fascinating is that these ideals have arisen there in ways that complicate ( but in no way confute ) the argument of Richard Taruskin and others who regard them as a projection of certain 20th-century musical ideas and tastes . |
| 21 | Why that is so extraordinary is that governors of institutions of that kind tend not to want to give interviews to the press ; they keep their views very much to themselves . |
| 22 | She reckons the real reason the Japanese are so successful is that they have always incorporated a spiritual approach in business . |
| 23 | What makes this particular story so tragic is that while Jeremy fought to survive , no doubt focusing his efforts on the hope that we were looking for him , a succession of minor acts of negligence , committed by both the Spanish authorities and the British Consul , conspired to delay a proper search being mounted . |
| 24 | If you 're really rocking and rolling in the art department and you 're allowing some of the experiments to see their way into print , even if they 're not so , they do n't have that slick veneer that people seem to want in the marketing department , progress results and the rawness helps and the thing that makes Jack Stoffagers pages so wonderful is that they are unfiltered , you have the feeling that it 's the printer talking to you , determining something that he 's read , you know , he wants you to read . |
| 25 | One reason for them being so common is that they reproduce at a high rate , and their high reproduction rate is one of the main topics of this chapter . |
| 26 | What is so troubling is that the Discarded Image Lewis is there beside the bullying rhetorician , and we do not know which of them is going to speak next . |
| 27 | What makes the situation in Britain today so worrying is that the leaders of both main parties agree on virtually everything . |
| 28 | I think one of the reasons ‘ Fitcher 's Bird ’ is at once so fascinating and so satisfying is that the third sister is not protected from the enchantment . |
| 29 | I am doing this without glasses , and what is so marvellous is that I can play the piano without glasses for the first time for at least 12 years . |
| 30 | The reason the Weight-Watchers from Bury St Edmunds , Haverhill , Newmarket and Saffron Walden are so satisfied is that the pounds they collected — £1,200 of them — will all be going to charity . |