Example sentences of "is so [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet in a country where the pull of the past is so strong and the future so tantalising , it is best when you are travelling to live exclusively in the present . |
| 2 | In the case of Jupiter the temperatures are about 300 to 400 million K , though the number density is so low that no glow is visible . |
| 3 | In practice the probability of such words occurring in adjacent positions is so low that the problem is negligible . |
| 4 | However , the number of people who return to education once they have left school or college is so low that the age of finishing full-time education is often used as a simple indicator . |
| 5 | Recall that it exists where the interest rate is so low that the demand for money becomes perfectly interest-elastic . |
| 6 | Visual acuity is often normal even when the field of vision is so poor that the child is registered as blind . |
| 7 | ‘ The unsuitability of the jury system in cases of this kind is so apparent that the Government must look at the whole process , ’ he said . |
| 8 | The world of parliamentary publications in Britain is a daunting one for the beginning researcher , but the range of information available from governmental and quasi-governmental sources is so vast that no researcher dare ignore it . |
| 9 | But for larger numbers of mutational steps , even in the case of the biomorphs with their nine little genes , the mathematical space of all possible trajectories is so vast that the chance of two trajectories ever arriving at the same point becomes vanishingly small . |
| 10 | What I find very frightening is the campaign by Sir Thomas Hetherington in particular who erm as reported in the newspapers has said that there are er a handful , 3 or 4 people whom he has singled out , and he says the evidence is prima facie evidence against them , is so overwhelming that the law of England must be radically changed in order to bring a prosecution against them , and , as Lord Shawcroft said , well how , in such circumstances , could such people have a fair trial when we 've had the er Hetherington the former Attorney General saying , in effect , we know these people are guilty , we 're changing the law to prosecute them , and now you members of the jury must n't on any account er think er in er you must judge completely impartially . |
| 11 | Crying apart , there are no songs of the calibre of Pretty Woman but that big dramatic voice is so overwhelming and the production so superb , that it 's a worthwhile record by any standards . |
| 12 | Since the collapse of communist rule in 1989 some improvements to the cityscape have been made , but the damage to buildings is so serious that the government has declared the city a disaster zone . |
| 13 | The resemblance is so close that a human can easily mistake the new song for the sound of a trimphone . |
| 14 | Thus in the above example , investors are willing to pay slightly more in terms of time value for calls than for puts but the difference is so slight that the indicator is in this case quite inconclusive . |
| 15 | The whole connection is so slight that the legend only appears in tourist-orientated guide books of the twentieth century . |
| 16 | Often the volume of urgent management business at a governors ' meeting is so great that the welfare of children in a caring environment can become a marginal issue . |
| 17 | The loss of nurses is so great that the profession replaces itself numerically once every six years . |
| 18 | The migration is so great that the countryside looks almost emptied . |
| 19 | We suppose , however , that the concentration diffusivity is so small that the particle conserves its concentration , |
| 20 | A band between the point of maximum tolerability ( above which a project must be abandoned altogether ) and the point of minimum tolerability ( below which a risk is so small that the project can proceed without formal assessment ) . |
| 21 | Some researchers point out that no radiation dose is so small that the body can perfectly repair all resulting damage to DNA and chromosomes , and they suggest that many of the published estimates of the health effects of Chernobyl radiation are too conservative . |
| 22 | The combination of results needed to deprive the Republic of their first appearance in the World Cup finals is so fantastic that the possibility can be discounted . |
| 23 | Now the choice is so wide and the packaging so attractive that most children are delighted . |
| 24 | Novell is so rich that the Unix acquisition is relatively small potatoes . |
| 25 | The English tradition that it is tor Parliament to do the taxing is so deep-seated that the court would probably assert a legal presumption , as a matter of statute interpretation , that powers of taxation are not included in a statutory delegation of power unless clear words are used , and that a general formula like that in the statute stated in the question is not sufficient . ’ |
| 26 | The tank 's lid is so good that the suction is enough to seal it , with the ring clamp . |
| 27 | It must be said before we proceed further that this model is so new that no handbook was available to me at the time of writing . |
| 28 | I would hope however that the committee members at North Yorkshire will see that the local feeling is so deep that the project itself can not be harmed by a public inquiry and they will make er they will take the decisions which will put this application in that direction and send that message very clearly to the Secretary of State . |
| 29 | It is questionable whether it can become an agent to promote social work but is position is so central than an attempt must be made . |
| 30 | Paradise Lost , like Colmris is a poem with a thesis , but the counter position of the thesis is so powerful that the poem , both these poems , have to be described as the enactment of a conflict , rather than the giving us of the result . |