Example sentences of "so [adj] that [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There appears to be little evidence that as a society we have become so rich that a substantial number of people are at this point . |
| 2 | The increased order is so strong that no neuro-electric message can fight it — a special EM field has to be applied . |
| 3 | There are a number of modelling programs suitable for use on microcomputers at a price which is so low that a complete system often costs less than the terminals used merely to communicate with larger computers . |
| 4 | Already losses in fibre are so low that a light signal can travel well over 16 km before it halves in intensity ( a 3 dB loss ) . |
| 5 | Life expectancy is so low that the average life span of men just before we got here ( in the last quarter of the seventeenth century ) was 29.6 years . |
| 6 | The lintel is so low that the only man who can enter is the man who is down on his knees . |
| 7 | However , on rare occasions — perhaps twice before in recorded history — a change occurs so profound and so far-reaching that the entire orientation of society is altered completely in a relatively short period . |
| 8 | One must stand in awe of the scientist so Promethean that a single obscenity is all that is needed to clarify and educate . |
| 9 | The sequence was then interrupted by a flood that was so devastating that a new start had to be made and again kingship had to be ‘ lowered from heaven ’ . |
| 10 | The shortage of housing is so acute that the vast Cairene cemeteries , known as the City of the Dead , host a population of squatters thought to number over a million . |
| 11 | Ramsey said that the name of Billy Graham was linked with fundamentalism ; and that fundamentalism was the error of regarding the Bible as so divine that the human element disappeared . |
| 12 | Old galvanised iron rising main and cold feed pipes can usually be removed with Stillsons ; a metal overflow pipe may be so rusted that the only answer is to cut it off . |
| 13 | Such conditions could occur in a very big hydrogen bomb : the physicist John Wheeler once calculated that if one took all the heavy water in all the oceans of the world , one could build a hydrogen bomb that would compress matter at the center so much that a black hole would be created . |
| 14 | The present danger is perhaps not so much that an honest trustee may be unfairly penalized as that a dishonest trustee may with impunity inflict loss on the beneficiaries . |
| 15 | It is n't so much that the ultimate disappearance of the USM itself is particularly jeopardising the potential market for smaller companies . |
| 16 | Indeed , it is not so much that the invading spirit is definitively exorcized from its human host , as that the host learns to live with her familiar who may make his presence felt whenever his mistress is in difficulties . |
| 17 | He had come to the banqueting hall in order to have a look at the river from the roof ; the river had risen and widened so much that the entire countryside seemed to be sliding past and one felt as if one were standing on the deck of a ship . |
| 18 | In other words , the value of money decreases so much that the eventual outlay of £1,116 over 93 years is only equivalent to just short of £200 in 1900 's currency — weird stuff money ! |
| 19 | Sunday was always the same in the Lewis home — now that it really was the Lewis home ; for the first ten years of Jo 's life her mother had been away making films and her father had been away on business so much that the main house had been a ghost dwelling ; the Chippendale and Sheraton furniture was draped in dust sheets . |
| 20 | I have declined to act as external examiner to candidates whose subject or thesis title seemed to be so dubious that a successful treatment of it could only be done by a candidate of exceptional brilliance ; in such cases it is likely that the candidate has had inadequate or misguided supervision . |
| 21 | Bomb hoax — placing imitation bomb in shop — whether offence so serious that a non-custodial sentence for it can not be justified |
| 22 | This indicates that if the court 's desire is to protect the public from persons who take vehicles without the owner 's consent , that is by a sense of general deterrence , then this particular criterion of the Criminal Justice Act will not be applicable The question posed for the courts must be whether taking a vehicle without consent can ever , as an individual offence , be so serious that a non-custodial sentence can not be considered . |
| 23 | But Judge Robin David told Dodman : ‘ This matter is so serious that a custodial sentence is inevitable . |
| 24 | But Judge Robin David told Dodman : ‘ This matter is so serious that a custodial sentence is inevitable . ’ |
| 25 | Coun Gilchrist said : ‘ The situation is so serious that the whole system is creaking under the strain . |
| 26 | Ill-feeling between the government and opposition was so serious that the National Assembly had been paralysed since convening in June , following the March 1992 general election . |
| 27 | When the Jesuits were expelled from the city in September 1773 public resentment was so real that the entire garrison had to occupy key points and patrol the streets to maintain order . |
| 28 | This difference in treatment between pre- and post-petition assignments is so stark that the inevitable conclusion is that pre-petition assignments were not intended to be outlawed . |
| 29 | Its use in the instance quoted is so straightforward that no special attention needed to be drawn to it . |
| 30 | The manner in which death came to men , including those innocent of any offence , could be so appalling that the final stroke could only be regarded as a merciful relief . |