Example sentences of "[noun] [be] so [adj] [conj] [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 | In some cases that might be true ; modern international show jumping course are so big and so technical that they demand a horse with the size , scope and power to make the heights and spreads . |
| 3 | Outside London , cities are so small that only Birmingham , Bristol , Exeter , Newcastle , York and Norwich have more than ten thousand residents . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | For every long contract to which it becomes party there is a matching short , for every dispute with a seller ( though disputes are so rare as virtually never to occur ) there will be an equal dispute with a buyer , and for every case of force majeure in delivery there will be an invoicing back from buyer to LCH and from LCH to seller . |
| 6 | With help … ’ and her whispered words were so quiet that only Creggan and Kraal heard them . |
| 7 | The United States is so big that even in the twentieth century the inhabitants prefer to explore their own continent . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | and because the Buckinary is so big and really warrants having a stag group over that neck of the woods |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Sometimes and in some places , the labour is so time-consuming that even the most hard-working of parents can not manage it unaided . |
| 12 | Protein is so important that nearly all diets , no matter what other failings they may have , emphasize adequate protein intake . |
| 13 | However , in some situations the melody is so pacific and widely spread that harmonic change can be relatively frequent , embroidering but not changing excessively the atmosphere . |
| 14 | The deal was so simple that even Reagan could understand it . |
| 15 | The rampant desire she glimpsed in his eyes was so clear and so fierce that she felt her breath catch in her throat . |
| 16 | In the 1780s , when Highgate Hill was so steep and deeply rutted that carriages regularly failed to make the grade , and the drive to town sufficiently dangerous that a wise man went with pistols , a merchant called Thomas Roxborough had constructed a handsome house on Hornsey Lane , designed for him by one Henry Holland . |
| 17 | In the Mediterranean coral was so abundant and so easily harvested that it never became valuable , at least in the home territory . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Among those noting Xu 's habit of using just one board ( ingredients are so fresh and so quickly prepared that food poisoning is not considered a threat ) is Keith Mitchell , team captain of the British chefs competing at the culinary Olympics in Frankfurt next year , and head chef at the Grand Hotel , Eastbourne , East Sussex . |
| 20 | well this people I mean with , with , that I mean that really is more or less the same amount as the other companies have said for er more or less the whole lot , so why the wardrobes are so cheap and yet the , the bed surrounding is so expensive , we do n't know |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | The law is so rigorous and so thorough that it would be difficult to misunderstand the import of the statutory legislation which governs the property of the Palestinian Arabs who fled their homes in 1948 and who — by the same law — can not return . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The burst took ten seconds because a dying star 's core is so dense that even neutrinos bang into things on their way out . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | However , as his work was so similar and geographically near by , he suggested to the DOE that there should be contact and openly advertised his presence . |
| 29 | After such a long wait , Ellie was so stiff and so fearful , that she was almost relieved to hear them , laughing and jeering at each other , and then greeting their father , whom they were surprised to see home . |
| 30 | Why risk the possibility that the invariably expensive instrument may be ‘ not quite what you wanted ’ , and thus face the steep depreciation between brand-new to second-hand common to all custom-built guitars , when modern ‘ copy ’ guitars are so good and so cheap ? |