Example sentences of "so [adj] [be] [conj] " 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 | What is not so clear is whether the Principles have anticipated ail types of problem which the technology may throw up . |
| 7 | One of the reasons he has become so popular is that he has no ego and refuses to take himself seriously . |
| 8 | What is so interesting is that despite that disastrous performance , Labour 's policies have hardly altered — and they would have the same effect again . |
| 9 | but what I find so interesting is because people talk nowadays as if it 's only recently women have had jobs erm |
| 10 | What makes their excessive holidays so wrong is that millions are being forced to take a permanent break from work since they are unemployed . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | What is so sad is that through all the tinsel shines a reality , but we can not seem to grasp it . |
| 14 | What is so amazing is that this stuff keeps going on . |
| 15 | What is not so obvious is whether the vast sums of money that have been spent by central government and the local authorities on housing over the years have had much effect on reducing housing inequalities . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | The reason the vegetables were so luscious was that they were abundantly nourished with the contents of the pozzo nero , the hospital cesspit . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Indeed , the chief reason why the proportion of older people is so large is because the proportion of younger people is so much smaller , having this century almost halved , while the former has trebled . |
| 21 | The downside of being so quick was that it was an hour before the pub was supposed to open and the support vehicle to arrive . |
| 22 | One reason why ants are so sophisticated is because of their complex language of chemical communication , which Dr Wilson has done more than anyone to elucidate . |
| 23 | I think what is so degrading is that er women who under God can bring forth life can actually produce death in this place . |
| 24 | The reason why our homes were so cold was that the people who designed them never took our severe winter climate into consideration . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Teachers commonly believe that the reason they are so tired is that they have so much to do . |
| 27 | What is so fascinating is that maybe the medieval artists were just as ignorant of Latin . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The reason it sounds so powerful is because it 's completely unself-conscious . |
| 30 | 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 . |