Example sentences of "[noun sg] is so [adj] [conj] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Speech processing is so complex and so little understood that we want as few assumptions built into the development architecture as possible . |
| 4 | Perhaps in this case the injunction can be ignored since the pattern is so widespread and so instinctively attractive . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Their anatomy is so specialised and so different from the urodeles that they are classified in an order of their own , the caecilians . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 " . |
| 12 | You can now see why Christianity is so radical and so down to earth . |
| 13 | No Party is so red or so blue they would not be green . |