Example sentences of "is so [adj] [conj] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MORALE in Britain is so low that nearly half the population would emigrate if they could , according to a survey . |
| 2 | By this we mean a change which is so wide-reaching and so fundamental in its effects as to constitute a dramatic alteration of the status quo . |
| 3 | Though the very fact that it is so traditional and so formal a poem in the pastoral tradition , held in the tightness of all the conventions that it employs , not only allows , but in some strange way makes possible , the intensity of personal feeling that it contains . |
| 4 | The current level of intelligence is so poor that over half the members of active service units on the mainland have no previous police or intelligence ‘ form ’ ( which is one reason why internment would not work ) . |
| 5 | The land is so dry that only isolated juniper trees and low scrub freckle the surface of the cliffs and the rock strata , some soft , some hard , are clear and stark . |
| 6 | It is so nice and easy these days to give an injection , knowing that the beast will be sound in a day or two . |
| 7 | He tends to me as one would a convalescent child delirious with a terminal but ticklish illness ; he tends to the outermost hazards of my body ( he is so violent and so tender ) and back to a cave of foetal musk , molested by warmth . |
| 8 | When the grand collapse starts , it is so violent and so rapid that nothing can halt it . |
| 9 | Obviously I would n't be happy with someone who is so selfish and so uninterested in me , so I suppose he 's doing me a favour , really , making it so clear . |
| 10 | It has recently become an issue because it is so visible and entirely unregulated . |
| 11 | A second group is at the opposite extreme of breakage , with no mandibles intact , and this includes the mammalian carnivores , the little owl and most of the diurnal raptors not included in the main analysis ( not included because the damage is so great that hardly any recognizable bone is left in the pellets : see Table 2.1 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ He is so small and so dependent on us , we must do something to save him , ’ said Jason , 20 , from Flixton , Manchester . |
| 13 | This score is so inspired and obviously such a pleasure to play that it never seems to receive a really disappointing recording . |
| 14 | Here , more than anywhere , in these moments of shared contemplation where the presence of death is so immediate and so visible , do you sense something like a collective consciousness being forged , a powerful combative resolve . |
| 15 | Bates gets by because his theme is so universal that practically all the heavyweights have something to say on it . |
| 16 | From time to time there are cases where the provocation is so gross and so strong that a court imposes a very short prison sentence or even a suspended sentence for the manslaughter — typically , cases where a wife , son , or daughter kills a persistently bullying husband or father — and such cases raise the more general question of whether provocation should ever be a complete defence to homicide or to other crimes . |
| 17 | What is so dreadful and so secret about the Lady Eleanor 's death ? ’ |
| 18 | There are also periods where the curve is so steep that apparently large differences in radiocarbon results arise from events separated by relatively small amounts of real time . |
| 19 | According to the report , pollution is so bad that even 100 kilometres away in the national capital of Prague , up to 99.3 per cent of the 1.2 million people live in a highly degraded environment as a direct result . |
| 20 | The assault is so unexpected and apparently unjustified that it leaves the owner not only bleeding but also deeply perplexed . |
| 21 | If we say , you see , that the function of the dream is to safeguard sleep , and to fulfil wishes , then it 's clear that in the real world not all wishes are fulfillable and it may well be that , that the latent thoughts , in some cases , is so alarming and so disturbing , that they can not be sufficiently disguised and will lead to a state of waking , and that waking proves of course that the dream has failed in its function of safeguarding sleep . |
| 22 | Boullee demonstrated one aspect of vision and I mention it because it is so clear and so obvious . |
| 23 | No Party is so red or so blue they would not be green . |
| 24 | The law is so rigorous and so thorough that it would be difficult to misunderstand the import of the statutory legislation which governs the property of the Palestinian Arabs who fled their homes in 1948 and who — by the same law — can not return . |
| 25 | The pollination process is so complicated and mechanically wonderful that it is almost beyond belief ; and the process is specific for that species of bee and that species of orchid , so that if one partner became extinct , the other would also die out . |
| 26 | Protein is so important that nearly all diets , no matter what other failings they may have , emphasize adequate protein intake . |
| 27 | The form of input is so basic that almost any application can be encoded as input to a network . |
| 28 | This is so ingrained and so influential , I shall have occasion to come back to it many times . |
| 29 | And of course we 've always had closed circuit television at the underground car park in Gloucester Green , and I had it from the words of another Conservative Councillor , Councillor Ann Spokes , that she always uses Gloucester Green car park because it is so safe and so secure . |
| 30 | On Cordia nodosa ( Boraginaceae ) , however , invaders did not increase under these conditions , perhaps because the plant is so pubescent and therefore impassable to large ants in any case : only when lianes occupied by the smaller Crematogaster ants came near did the resident Allomerus demerarae attack . |