Example sentences of "[adv] great [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ONE CONSORTIUM , Five TV , hopes that the imagined problems will be so great as to discourage competition and that all potential investors ( who include The Daily Telegraph ) will accrete to its application and that the ITC will be left with a choice of one . |
| 2 | The scale of the problem may not be so great as to cause widespread concern for the rural child , however . |
| 3 | By contrast equatorial forests lack extreme seasonal variation ; where productivity varies little during the year the resource fluctuations are never so great as in savannah or temperate regions . |
| 4 | In other words , if the destructive forces operating on the bone assemblages are so great as to destroy some of the mandibles and maxillae , but not great enough to destroy the teeth , the ensuing sample can be expected to contain an excess of isolated teeth over the numbers expected from the numbers of jaws . |
| 5 | His attachment to classical principle was not so great as to deter him from practical innovation . |
| 6 | He corrected an error in Riemann 's work and showed by an ingenious example that the scope of the new theory was not quite so great as some had claimed . |
| 7 | When reality actually arrives ( and it always does ) the contrast between it and the exaggerated positive focus is sometimes so great as to produce a distorted negative focus . |
| 8 | It is this count which increases the search time from the original 26-way tree , but the decrease in memory usage is so great as to out weigh this slower search . |
| 9 | The variety of management tasks is often so great as to warrant a task analysis with separate skills analyses of particular tasks or groups of tasks . |
| 10 | In numbers , the Royal Navy was the strongest in the world , although its superiority was not so great as it was later to become . |
| 11 | In his work , theoretically relying both on Freudianism and on variations of Parsonian functionalism , which sees the biological , egalitarian family as the culmination of the modernising process , he argues that the rise in illegitimacy can be traced to a change in the attitude towards sex of lower-class women , a change so great as to amount to a sexual revolution . |
| 12 | But between the practice of the two , the difference of degree is so great as to amount to a difference in kind . |
| 13 | That she has less strength at work and has more broken time owing to bad health and especially should she be married , domestic duties and that her output is not so great as that of a man . |
| 14 | Over a long period then , the cost of elections was still more than the cost of the permanent organization , and this cost was so great as to rule out all but a tiny minority . |
| 15 | In no country in which preferences among list candidates can be expressed are the relevant numbers anything like so great as in most of the West German Länder . |
| 16 | prove that this technology was n't so great as one would have thought it was without the ground troops . |
| 17 | However , one attempt to test the extent of misreporting ( Martin/Butcher , 1982 ) found that , in general , it was not so great as to be a cause for concern . |
| 18 | Or — another possibility — the curvature might be so great as to make the Universe close back on itself . |
| 19 | So the man is not so great as his art ? |
| 20 | Be that as it may , the discrepancy between the editorial objectives of Monde and its editorial practice was so great as to cause embarrassment in official communist circles , and to provoke open hostility from Young Turks such as Breton , Aragon and Nizan himself . |
| 21 | " Tam , because your responsibility for what happened is not so great as Kim 's , you and your sister will kneel in the corner of this room for one hour with your faces to the wall . |
| 22 | In unfavourable circumstances erosion may be so great as to tear a gap through the dunes , such a feature being described as a blow out . |
| 23 | Quite a lot of guesswork and estimation has to go into this , but the margins of error are not so great as to nullify the whole enterprise . |
| 24 | The need for effective communications , both with our members and others , has never been so great as in these times of significant change and development . |
| 25 | The X-ray flux is so great when it emerges from the machine 's vacuum that it causes the air to fluoresce and , if focused , it can burn holes in paper rather like a powerful laser beam . |
| 26 | The stench of decomposing material was so great when the pie was cut that people were endangered as they fell on top of each other in their haste to get away . |
| 27 | Of this , almost half is used as rangelands , for raising cattle and sheep ; a total area somewhat greater than India . |
| 28 | As the structure is not a single crystal , the sizes found vary from somewhat greater than a crystallite to diameters of a few millimetres . |
| 29 | Not only is this information ignored , but some of the new-found local expertise on asbestos and health is apparently greater than that of Professor McDonald , the independent expert who has studied some 12,000 case histories . |
| 30 | The level of spending was apparently greater than originally planned and it was suggested that the increase was made possible by higher than expected oil revenues for 1989 . |