Example sentences of "[noun] is so [adj] [conj] even " in BNC.

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1 The United States is so big that even in the twentieth century the inhabitants prefer to explore their own continent .
2 Sometimes and in some places , the labour is so time-consuming that even the most hard-working of parents can not manage it unaided .
3 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 .
4 The burst took ten seconds because a dying star 's core is so dense that even neutrinos bang into things on their way out .
5 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 .
6 In the broken-wing performance , the realism is so remarkable that even human observers can be fooled when they first encounter it .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 Normally , the energy of the particle is still positive , but the gravitational field inside a black hole is so strong that even a real particle can have negative energy there .
10 In theory this should sort out the wheat from the chaff but the definition of wheat in the intelligence world is so wide that even with the best filter the net volume of material is of such staggering proportions that it is beyond any useful human assessment .
11 ‘ But the problem about heroin is that the money is so good that even the good people do it ’ .
12 The slogan is so grey-haired that even at party conferences it would n't get a ripple of applause .
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