Example sentences of "[noun] [be] so [adj] that [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of Lewis and Harris and the uplands of South Uist have a very low Potential Water Deficit , as precipitation equals or even exceeds evapo-transpiration in all months of the year , and the uplands of southern Lewis , Harris and South Uist are so moist that even in summer ( April-September ) there is a PWS of over 500 mm . |
| 2 | Outside London , cities are so small that only Birmingham , Bristol , Exeter , Newcastle , York and Norwich have more than ten thousand residents . |
| 3 | But I was surprised because the songs are so good that even when they 're getting massacred by cats and dogs or Germans or Russians they still stand up . |
| 4 | With help … ’ and her whispered words were so quiet that only Creggan and Kraal heard them . |
| 5 | The United States is so big that even in the twentieth century the inhabitants prefer to explore their own continent . |
| 6 | She suspects that Charles suspects that she had once had an affair with Ivan , but of course she had not , though she concedes that Ivan is so unpleasant that only a degree of past sexual intimacy could plausibly explain the kind of relationship that he and Liz have over the years established . |
| 7 | We now know this to be true of all the planets ; however , the effect is so small that only in the case of Mercury was it detectable by nineteenth-century astronomers . |
| 8 | Sometimes and in some places , the labour is so time-consuming that even the most hard-working of parents can not manage it unaided . |
| 9 | Protein is so important that nearly all diets , no matter what other failings they may have , emphasize adequate protein intake . |
| 10 | The deal was so simple that even Reagan could understand it . |
| 11 | But , poorly placed as X Corps was for any new attack , its position on either side of Fort Douaumont was so untenable that just by sitting still it was losing 230 men a day to French shellfire . |
| 12 | The relationships of A and B are so diverse that only some statement such as " A is related to B " will serve as a valid statement about all parallelistic couplets . |
| 13 | Such criticism of American policy would be counter-productive ; the claims on the United States for economic and military assistance were so great that only a limited amount could be given to Korea . |
| 14 | The current level of intelligence is so poor that over half the members of active service units on the mainland have no previous police or intelligence ‘ form ’ ( which is one reason why internment would not work ) . |
| 15 | The planet p' is so small that even the biggest available telescopes can not possibly observe it ; the experimental astronomer applies for a research grant to build yet a bigger one . |
| 16 | The burst took ten seconds because a dying star 's core is so dense that even neutrinos bang into things on their way out . |
| 17 | Also known as Fachen , Fachin , or the Diereach , this evil monster from Scotland is so ugly that simply looking upon one could result in death from heart failure . |
| 18 | There are also periods where the curve is so steep that apparently large differences in radiocarbon results arise from events separated by relatively small amounts of real time . |
| 19 | Bates gets by because his theme is so universal that practically all the heavyweights have something to say on it . |
| 20 | Jupiter orbits the Sun well beyond the orbit of Mars , and though the solar radiation at Jupiter is about 25 times less than at the Earth , Jupiter is so large that only Venus , and Mars at the most favourable oppositions , outshine Jupiter in our skies . |
| 21 | Until recently the fact that the strength of engineering materials is usually only between one and five per cent of the strength of their chemical bonds was of little practical significance because the joints between the various component parts of structures were so inefficient that even the strength which the material had was scarcely used . |
| 22 | According to the report , pollution is so bad that even 100 kilometres away in the national capital of Prague , up to 99.3 per cent of the 1.2 million people live in a highly degraded environment as a direct result . |
| 23 | In the broken-wing performance , the realism is so remarkable that even human observers can be fooled when they first encounter it . |
| 24 | In 1936 he wrote " Nowadays the trouble and expense involved in keeping a stud of hawks is so great that only a fortunate few are able to do so . " |
| 25 | It was wretched luck that the weather that day was so awful that only 1000+ turned up to see Simpson well played by Bernard Joy and Palace win by 3–2 . |
| 26 | However , while the romantic is afraid of being ordinary , Jesus was so ordinary that even his own family could see nothing special about him . |
| 27 | In this region the integration of the drainage pattern is so good that practically every point in the area can be assigned to one or another of the former drainage basins . |
| 28 | Generally speaking , the machine system of section-making is so gentle that only very difficult lithologies and loose sediments will need impregnation . |
| 29 | However , the future of its messy OSF/1-Ultrix-Open Desktop strategy is so unstable that even its own spokespeople were at a loss to explain it last week — ‘ it 's too early to say , ’ they conceded . |
| 30 | A glance through any of the larger component catalogues will show that the number of different components currently in use is so large that even if you could afford to buy one or two of everything , you would need a warehouse to store it all . |