Example sentences of "so great as " 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 . |