Example sentences of "so [adv] [verb] [conj] [pers pn] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Estelle Ramey , professor emeritus of physiology at Georgetown University School of Medicine , USA , explains that ‘ your system is so delicately balanced that it 's very difficult for your body to make two types of hormones at once . |
| 2 | If one were to peruse the extensive range of surveys of the applications of the rational expectations hypothesis to macroeconomics , one would come across a different framework of analysis , one which is so widely accepted that it is rarely explained in any detail , still less is its theoretical basis probed critically or its conclusions called into question . |
| 3 | The Government were part of the process of blocking the directive until it was so badly mauled that it is now very different from the one that we first saw and debated in the House a month ago . |
| 4 | The belief that different treatment methods are needed for and tried on different populations of sufferers does not stand up to critical examination : the stories of those in recovery from addictive disease through the Anonymous Fellowships are so immensely varied that it is quite clear that this population has not been selected in any way . |
| 5 | Timber which is so severely honeycombed that it is virtually useless — termed ‘ frass ’ — is likely to coincide with the sapwood content of structural timber . |
| 6 | We have so far assumed that it is a word form associated with a single sense , and that a difference of word form entails a difference of lexical unit . |
| 7 | However , the evidence so far suggests that it is not enough to persuade businesspeople that rates will really be fixed forever . |
| 8 | Many railway lines were dubbed strategic , but strategy and economics are so inseparably intertwined that it is a meaningless exercise to attempt to separate them . |
| 9 | Arguing that a dominant group may be so well entrenched that it is unaware of any potential challenge , Lukes points to the importance of socially and culturally patterned behaviour , to ways of acting and thinking which are taken for granted and which are rarely exposed to serious challenge . |
| 10 | It can not be said that the result was entirely logical , and one is tempted to agree with a famous last-century astronomer , Sir John Herschel , that the constellations seem to have been drawn up so as to cause as much inconvenience as possible , but the system has become so well established that it is unlikely to be altered now . |
| 11 | Tabasco is so well known that it is to pepper sauces what Hoover is to vacuum cleaners . |
| 12 | If a theory is so vaguely stated that it is not clear exactly what it is claiming , then , when tested by observation or experiment it can always be interpreted so as to be consistent with the results of those tests . |
| 13 | Power is so seductively close that it is easy to forget that in British politics the winner takes all , or to believe that this time it all will come right and they can themselves grasp power without conceding any . |
| 14 | The lime juice myth was so firmly entrenched that it is still commonly believed . |
| 15 | In many industrialised market economies collective bargaining has become so firmly established that it is sometimes regarded as being virtually synonymous with the prevailing system of industrial relations . |
| 16 | Both class relations and gender relations , while they exist within their own histories , can nevertheless be so closely interwoven that it is theoretically very difficult to draw them apart within specific historic conjunctures . |
| 17 | A delicate building , it is so intricately decorated that it is difficult to tell which parts are original and which later modifications . |
| 18 | Some of Bach 's melodies , however , are so freely formed that it is impossible to decide whether , like the above Sarabande , they could have had a simple outline as their origin , or whether Bach followed a free vein of inspiration , ignoring a well-defined construction . |
| 19 | It is so cleverly written that it is impossible to put into my words , everything inside the plot seems to the reader to be perfect . |
| 20 | For people of my generation , children of the sixties , sex and freedom are so inextricably connected that it is difficult for us to accept that someone can be totally uninhibited in bed and still have a Reader 's Digest mentality . |