Example sentences of "is so [adj] [that] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Normally , the energy of the particle is still positive , but the gravitational field inside a black hole is so strong that even a real particle can have negative energy there . |
2 | But the judge said : ‘ This offence is so serious that only a custodial sentence can be justified . |
3 | In 1936 he wrote " Nowadays the trouble and expense involved in keeping a stud of hawks is so great that only a fortunate few are able to do so . " |
4 | The planet p' is so small that even the biggest available telescopes can not possibly observe it ; the experimental astronomer applies for a research grant to build yet a bigger one . |
5 | In this region the integration of the drainage pattern is so good that practically every point in the area can be assigned to one or another of the former drainage basins . |
6 | ‘ But the problem about heroin is that the money is so good that even the good people do it ’ . |
7 | Sometimes and in some places , the labour is so time-consuming that even the most hard-working of parents can not manage it unaided . |
8 | She suspects that Charles suspects that she had once had an affair with Ivan , but of course she had not , though she concedes that Ivan is so unpleasant that only a degree of past sexual intimacy could plausibly explain the kind of relationship that he and Liz have over the years established . |
9 | The cost of freehold land is so high that only a wealthy man who farms intensively can hope to make a living on his own small farm . |
10 | Currency markets , however , take the view that the deficit is so large that only a lower exchange rate will help to speed up the adjustment . |
11 | The vegetation that has not yet been destroyed by the goats and donkeys seems a mass of sharp thorns , and in some places it is so thick that even the goats can get through only on their knees . |