Example sentences of "[noun] is so [adj] and [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and because the Buckinary is so big and really warrants having a stag group over that neck of the woods |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This score is so inspired and obviously such a pleasure to play that it never seems to receive a really disappointing recording . |
| 5 | The pollination process is so complicated and mechanically wonderful that it is almost beyond belief ; and the process is specific for that species of bee and that species of orchid , so that if one partner became extinct , the other would also die out . |
| 6 | On the one hand , there will be those whose belief in the concept is so definite and so fixed that they almost allow it to rule their lives . |
| 7 | In recognition of the fact that the rabbit is so inoffensive and far from able to defend itself , nature has applied the customary protection for the species . |
| 8 | The assault is so unexpected and apparently unjustified that it leaves the owner not only bleeding but also deeply perplexed . |
| 9 | Speech processing is so complex and so little understood that we want as few assumptions built into the development architecture as possible . |
| 10 | Perhaps in this case the injunction can be ignored since the pattern is so widespread and so instinctively attractive . |
| 11 | From time to time there are cases where the provocation is so gross and so strong that a court imposes a very short prison sentence or even a suspended sentence for the manslaughter — typically , cases where a wife , son , or daughter kills a persistently bullying husband or father — and such cases raise the more general question of whether provocation should ever be a complete defence to homicide or to other crimes . |
| 12 | By combining this chapter with the last we can see why International Relations is so unsettled and so ready to try very varied approaches . |
| 13 | This is not so difficult in the tropical rainforest where the rainfall is so heavy and so well spread throughout the year that the centres of many plants are permanently filled with water . |
| 14 | Their anatomy is so specialised and so different from the urodeles that they are classified in an order of their own , the caecilians . |
| 15 | When , in desperation , this kind of badly pruned bush is cut back hard to retrieve the situation , the base is so old and hard , that any dormant bud buried within is quite incapable of awakening and breaking out . |
| 16 | Since this value system is so pervasive and so accepted there has never really been a need to develop other value systems that arise from actual social situations . |
| 17 | ‘ The tenancy shall continue until the said land is required by the council for the purposes of the widening of Walworth Road and the street paving works rendered necessary thereby and the council shall give two months ' notice to the tenant at least prior to the day of determination when the said land is so required and thereupon the tenant shall give vacant possession to the council of the said land … |
| 18 | The spacing of such steps on pointe is so minute and so fast that it is not possible to see the change of feet as one succeeds the other . |
| 19 | Here , more than anywhere , in these moments of shared contemplation where the presence of death is so immediate and so visible , do you sense something like a collective consciousness being forged , a powerful combative resolve . |
| 20 | It was pointed out in Dann v Hamilton that the defence could apply in cases where : " the drunkenness of the driver at the material time is so extreme and so glaring that to accept a lift from him is like engaging in an intrinsically and obviously dangerous occupation , intermeddling with an unexploded bomb or walking along on the edge of an unfenced cliff " . |
| 21 | You can now see why Christianity is so radical and so down to earth . |
| 22 | On Cordia nodosa ( Boraginaceae ) , however , invaders did not increase under these conditions , perhaps because the plant is so pubescent and therefore impassable to large ants in any case : only when lianes occupied by the smaller Crematogaster ants came near did the resident Allomerus demerarae attack . |