Example sentences of "be so [adj] that [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | Where the implications of the choice are so overwhelming that the individual ca n't make a choice at all . |
| 7 | These days you are so efficient that the magazine even arrives on time ! |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The ancient treasures he restores are so precious that the location of his workshop is a carefully guarded secret . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He looks forward to the day when home computers are so widespread that the price for software will drop by 75 per cent . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | You see , Chris the Stuffer 's deep freezes are so full that a while back , I promised him I would take the overflow . |
| 20 | One of the commoner of these difficulties is obesity and some people are so fat that the term ‘ superobese ’ has been applied to them . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In the commission 's view these rules are so flexible that no company need be put off by them . |
| 23 | ‘ The Safe-Buy concept has been so successful that the scheme is now spreading all over the UK , ’ says Judith Chalmers . |
| 24 | For a few minutes she stood in shocked silence ; she had been so sure that the rider from the woods had been herself … but now , realizing that the lover she had seen had been Morthen , she felt angry and upset . |
| 25 | The apparent ascendancy of nuclear-deterrence thinking over laws-of-war thinking has been so complete that the idea of deterrence has come to be associated in the public mind almost exclusively with extreme offensive threats against the adversary 's society . |
| 26 | A little earlier when they 'd listened to the Army vehicle 's wireless her hearing had been so acute that every syllable spoken sounded as if it were being shouted directly into her ear . |
| 27 | But the outcry from conservationists has been so great that the government has decreed that no more wolves will be shot ( New Scientist , 10 March , p 633 ) . |
| 28 | It 's been so cold that the freeze-thaw needed for the Appendix to form fully has n't taken place and the ice is in just the same condition as the previous week . |
| 29 | The cost of maintaining the waterway through the war on reduced Polish trade from the Russian and Austrian partition lands had been so high that the waterway had gone into decline . |
| 30 | This problem has been so bad that the company has returned to temporarily producing its old-style model to bridge the gap . |