Example sentences of "[am/are] so [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The implications of this theory are so powerful that the impact of modern linguistics on literary studies has not been limited to problems of literary language alone , but has produced new theories of the nature and organization of literature as a whole and indeed of all social and cultural life . |
| 2 | Some clog easily on sticky ground , others are so shallow that the loss of a couple of millimetres due to fair wear and tear produces considerable loss of adhesion . |
| 3 | They are in fact the original Green products having been around since 1959 , and are so good that the company 's turnover is about £1 billion . |
| 4 | The shops are so small that the person in the shop sees every corner , though there are no cameras . |
| 5 | Tunnels are so emotive and the mind can conjure up thoughts of terror and the possibility of being run down in a dark tunnel . |
| 6 | As many as one in five of the population attends an accident and emergency unit every year , yet staff shortages are so acute that a quarter of the 239 units in England and Wales do not have a trained consultant in charge . |
| 7 | oh the cupboards are brilliant it 's just the fronts are so dated and the man in these reports in the house said erm , kitchen is satisfactory but it needs updating and it was only about seven years ago it was brand new , no , not seven , have we been in then , no eight , so nine or something , I know the fronts need sorting out . |
| 8 | Where the implications of the choice are so overwhelming that the individual ca n't make a choice at all . |
| 9 | These days you are so efficient that the magazine even arrives on time ! |
| 10 | There are certain books , in almost any field , that are so rare that the collector is very unlikely to find a copy in good condition and , perforce , will have to make do with second , third , or tenth best . |
| 11 | In Peru distances are so vast and the terrain can be so formidable that aeroplanes are not a luxury , but often the only shakily effective means of passing between desert , mountain and jungle . |
| 12 | The truth is that most Thai-Chinese business empires are so complex that no outsider , including bankers and minority shareholders , can ever know their real state of health . |
| 13 | It is not put forward as a definitive model for how coping , support and events interrelate in the genesis of psychiatric disorder , because the issues are so complex that the diagram could be redrawn in several different ways and indicate several other likely relationships . |
| 14 | The individual experiences of recovery are so varied and the learning opportunities so diverse that there is a general maxim , " Where you are is where you are meant to be " , which implies that one can learn from any experience and put it to good use in recovery . |
| 15 | If people are paid benefits , the benefit officers make the appropriate deductions , but that is not the answer in the case of people who are so poor that the benefit officers say that nothing more can be deducted . |
| 16 | The ancient treasures he restores are so precious that the location of his workshop is a carefully guarded secret . |
| 17 | The astonishment is that , in the face of these adverse odds , the fossils that have been collected are so numerous and the record they provide so detailed and coherent . |
| 18 | The differences are so significant that the probability of starting fires and the degrees of difficulty in extinguishing fires , once started , can also vary quite widely . |
| 19 | Things are so grim that the group , which covers such diverse enterprises as engineering and house building , has been forced to pay its 6p total dividend out of reserves . |
| 20 | Modern avionics items exhibit such a variety of failure modes and are so reliable that the tradesman often forgets how he cured a particular type of fault when he experiences another of the same type . |
| 21 | ‘ What depresses me about the whole position is that skills are so important and the lack of them now is undermining our whole competitive position . |
| 22 | But in the case of nitrogen , which can exist as nitrates and nitrites , the surface temperatures are so high that the amount retained in such repositories must be small compared to the amount in the atmosphere . |
| 23 | He looks forward to the day when home computers are so widespread that the price for software will drop by 75 per cent . |
| 24 | The details of how they opened up the roof and lowered the man down through the tiles to the feet of Jesus are so vivid that the account obviously has some true foundation to it . |
| 25 | You see , Chris the Stuffer 's deep freezes are so full that a while back , I promised him I would take the overflow . |
| 26 | One of the commoner of these difficulties is obesity and some people are so fat that the term ‘ superobese ’ has been applied to them . |
| 27 | Todd 's contention is that the psychological tensions and traumas generated by the process of selection into winners and losers in " brutally individualist , egoist , competitive and aggressive societies " such as France , where the working class has assimilated the ambitious , success-seeking ideology of the petty bourgeoisie , are so intense that the creation of a communist party , a form of asylum and counter-culture , becomes imperative . |
| 28 | In the commission 's view these rules are so flexible that no company need be put off by them . |
| 29 | I said , ‘ I 'm so afraid that the motor areas are taking over ; but at least reflex actions are true to oneself , which is more than I can say for blind hatred . ’ |