Example sentences of "is so [adj] [conj] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday 's initial tour selection is so strong as to make no difference . |
| 2 | For our decade-conscious brains , an event that happens only once per aeon is so rare as to seem a major miracle . |
| 3 | I am glad to see from your report of the psychiatrist Professor Michael Rutter 's lecture at the Royal Institution that despite his former membership of the Lawther Working Party on lead pollution , Rutter now acknowledges that the hazard from lead in petrol is so serious as to require a total ban ( This Week , 3 March , p 567 ) . |
| 4 | Unless the seller commits a breach of condition or commits a breach of warranty which is so serious as to deprive the buyer of substantially the whole benefit of the contract , the buyer has no right to reject the goods or recover the price ( see paragraph 7–04 above ) . |
| 5 | Such interaction is threatened when the pace of change is too fast or when the nature of that change is so radical as to transform the nature of the activity . |
| 6 | Firstly , we have ‘ a state of affairs that is so acute as to constitute a danger ’ — and , we would add , a moral challenge of a scale which makes it one of the most pressing social issues of the day . |
| 7 | This apparent infall is so fast as to smother the expanding white hole . |
| 8 | What is more , Locke 's interpretation of what consent involves is so accommodating as to evacuate the notion of much substance . |
| 9 | The TGAT Report suggests that headteachers might exempt children with language difficulties in English from tests where the problem is so severe as to render the assessment unworkable . |
| 10 | it will be henceforth assumed that the typical unit of lexicology is the word ( this statement is so obvious as to have an air of tautology ) . |
| 11 | To the outsider it appears that when change of any kind is required , the NHS is so structured as to resemble a " mobile " : designed to move with any breath of air , but which in fact never changes its position and gives no clear indication of direction . |
| 12 | Each of these assumptions is so questionable as to put the onus of proof very heavily on the trade unions . |
| 13 | But , as we have seen , there is no evidence that unfair credit refusal is so widespread as to justify an elaborate system for redress ( and statutory bodies already exist which have the duty to hunt down cases of real discrimination on grounds of sex or race ) . |