Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] so [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 and because the Buckinary is so big and really warrants having a stag group over that neck of the woods
3 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 .
4 Sometimes and in some places , the labour is so time-consuming that even the most hard-working of parents can not manage it unaided .
5 Protein is so important that nearly all diets , no matter what other failings they may have , emphasize adequate protein intake .
6 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 .
7 The deal was so simple that even Reagan could understand it .
8 In the Mediterranean coral was so abundant and so easily harvested that it never became valuable , at least in the home territory .
9 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 .
10 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 ) .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 The burst took ten seconds because a dying star 's core is so dense that even neutrinos bang into things on their way out .
14 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 .
15 There are also periods where the curve is so steep that apparently large differences in radiocarbon results arise from events separated by relatively small amounts of real time .
16 Bates gets by because his theme is so universal that practically all the heavyweights have something to say on it .
17 This score is so inspired and obviously such a pleasure to play that it never seems to receive a really disappointing recording .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 The assault is so unexpected and apparently unjustified that it leaves the owner not only bleeding but also deeply perplexed .
23 In the broken-wing performance , the realism is so remarkable that even human observers can be fooled when they first encounter it .
24 It was wretched luck that the weather that day was so awful that only 1000+ turned up to see Simpson well played by Bernard Joy and Palace win by 3–2 .
25 Speech processing is so complex and so little understood that we want as few assumptions built into the development architecture as possible .
26 In this region the integration of the drainage pattern is so good that practically every point in the area can be assigned to one or another of the former drainage basins .
27 Perhaps in this case the injunction can be ignored since the pattern is so widespread and so instinctively attractive .
28 Generally speaking , the machine system of section-making is so gentle that only very difficult lithologies and loose sediments will need impregnation .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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