Example sentences of "be so high [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 He knew that although Ulthuan could probably win a war in the bleak northern lands , the cost would be so high that the Elf realms would never recover .
4 But there were also two major objections to Skybolt : it was the most expensive of the air mobile options ; and the Americans pointed out that the technological risks were so high that the project might well fail .
5 In 1828 , for example , when Coleman was sadly in need of an operating theatre , the various builders ' estimates were so high that the project was abandoned ‘ for the time being ’ .
6 But what happens if the traditional route out of the slums is effectively barred , or if unemployment is so high that the underclass is offered no hope ?
7 With inflation the cost of stocking a small farm , quite apart from the value of the land itself , is so high that the tax imposition will make it virtually impossible for a farmer to pass on a flourishing farm to his son .
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