Example sentences of "[adv] so [adj] [conj] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The variety of management tasks is often so great as to warrant a task analysis with separate skills analyses of particular tasks or groups of tasks .
2 Burial and fossilization changes are often so extensive as to obscure the primary modifications which must be identified in order to understand the mechanisms of accumulation of the bones .
3 A local priest was even so bold as to call the system ‘ a home-brew democracy … .
4 There may even have been a certain temperamental affinity between Baden-Powell 's Scouting philosophy and the restless energies of Hooliganism , and he was even so outrageous as to recommend the Hooligans to the National Defence Association as ‘ the best class of boy ’ : Predictably , his remarks invited the characteristic reversal of the problem , when a member of the National Defence Association asked :
5 When reality actually arrives ( and it always does ) the contrast between it and the exaggerated positive focus is sometimes so great as to produce a distorted negative focus .
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