Example sentences of "[is] so [adj] that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The specificity of cognitive accounts of particular ages is so strong that feminist psychologists have not really managed to make links between them or across them . |
| 2 | Friendship between domestic horses is well known , and the need for attachment is so strong that lone horses will become firm friends with cows , goats , pigs and even people . |
| 3 | This expectation is so strong that most congregations are prepared to spend huge sums for the provision and maintenance of an instrument which is , in many cases , the single most valuable asset in the building . |
| 4 | Whatever the reasons for their change from their nautiloid ancestors , the ammonoids were an enormously successful group : thousands of different species have been described , and their variety is so bewildering that many specialists devote their lives to studying only the ammonoids of a particular , short time period . |
| 5 | His only complaint is that the technique is so simple that other researchers will be able to duplicate it quickly enough to keep up with his group . |
| 6 | Since the amendment bans ‘ unreasonable searches and seizures , ’ the possibility remains that a test may be found unreasonable if the job is so non-critical that public needs fail to outweigh individual privacy interests . |
| 7 | One important factor , he suspects , is that the market in the South-east is so depressed that southern buyers simply can not sell their own homes in order to move . |
| 8 | Yet the field is so rich that new insights emerge year after year which , alas , are largely restricted to specialists . |
| 9 | Crowd flow in these three locations is so good that non-conference guests can stay there during even the largest event without inconvenience . |
| 10 | This years plum harvest is so good that some trees literally ca n't take the strain — snapping under the weight of fat , ripening victorias . |
| 11 | It has a period of 357 days , and at minimum is so faint that large telescopes are needed to show it , but at maximum it has been known to rise to 5.7 , and is then just visible with the naked eye and very easy in binoculars . |
| 12 | More intensive use of tropical forests is occurring where pressure on land is so acute that fallow periods of insufficient duration are creating environmental degradation . |
| 13 | The potential gain if one was ‘ exceptional ’ , however , and qualified for an early release is so powerful that few men are prepared to forego it The result is a shabby , futile process that Probation Officers feel makes subsequent work with inmates more difficult , that exasperates prison officers who see the time and energy in compiling reports as wasted , and infuriates prisoners for whom the probable refusal of parole , with its tiny element of uncertainty , makes prison life even harder to bear . |
| 14 | PFA spokesman Brendan Batson surveyed the ever-increasing number of imports and said : ‘ The cost of ground developments after the Taylor Report is so steep that many managers ca n't afford to shop in our domestic transfer market . |
| 15 | This process of coalition building is so well-known that some companies have invented their own language around it . |
| 16 | Reception from conventional ground-based transmission equipment is so bad that many families can watch television only if they receive signals piped in by cable . |
| 17 | The situation is so bad that special seminars are being held to teach clergymen more about security . |
| 18 | It also protects the plant in a more general way for it has such a bitter taste and is so poisonous that most animals will not eat the plant . |
| 19 | When , for instance in Solenopsis , the food source is so large that many ants are needed , mass-acting pheromones are released . |
| 20 | The scale of the enterprise is so large that fourteen nations combine their efforts at this single lab . |
| 21 | The complication here is that the total time period is more than 20 years , and obviously the earlier workers will have had time to publish many more papers than those finishing their studies in recent years , but the dataset is so large that such effects will be the same for all universities , i.e. they will be self-cancelling . |
| 22 | The complication here is that the total time period is more than 20 years , and obviously the earlier workers will have had time to publish many more papers than those finishing their studies in recent years , but the dataset is so large that such effects will be the same for all universities , i.e. they will be self-cancelling . |
| 23 | It seems indisputable that there are a tiny minority of pupils whose behaviour is so disturbing that mainstream schools are unable to cope , in the present circumstances , with the manifestations of this behaviour . |
| 24 | Where the demised property is unusual either in size or in character , or where it is so valuable that small points have large financial consequences , determination by arbitration may be the better method since there will be an opportunity for full argument . |
| 25 | But the club coached by Stokesley hairdresser Ian Watkins , a former Great Britain international is so popular that other members travel each weekend from Milton Keynes , Gillingham , Whitehaven and Bridgend in South Wales . |
| 26 | This double-green is so huge that two men walking seven miles each , up and down , take 1½ hours to mow it . |
| 27 | Its bite is rarely lethal , but is so painful that some victims have survived when they ‘ hoped not to ’ . |
| 28 | The advent of the success is so delightful that all thoughts of learning from it are banished . |
| 29 | It 's so ludicrous that certain lesbians , who despise men , become the exact replicas of them ! ’ |