Example sentences of "is so [adj] that [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , some have argued that the ‘ traditionalism of his general philosophy is so strong that it virtually disables him from that critical rationalism which is essential for the appraisal of particular traditions ’ . |
| 2 | We soon reach Hungerford and Rob 's bridge which is so low that he usually gets cramp from bending flat on the boat . |
| 3 | Male behaviour is so normative that we ordinarily think of celibacy as meaning that men are to leave women alone , rather than seeing it as a positive step women take to make a non sexually-active community together . |
| 4 | Ellis 's sense of the quiet solidarity between women , and of the bonds of love that bind the generations together , is so sure that it more than compensates for the novel 's occasional listlessness . |
| 5 | The pattern is so simple that it hardly seems worth studying . |
| 6 | This is so small that we just do n't notice it ; we see only one time and three space dimensions , in which space-time is fairly flat . |
| 7 | As the Royals have learned to their cost the law is so lax that it actually encourages widespread snooping . |
| 8 | Also , the intonation screws are too long ; on the bottom E , the screw is so long that it literally digs into the string . |
| 9 | It is so good that we now use it for all our drawing and image manipulation for the artwork you see in this section of the magazine . |
| 10 | The recent flood of cheery indicators is so good that it almost certainly condemns the beaming government to setbacks over the coming months , and to talk of a double-dip recession . |
| 11 | Some of ‘ Up In Downsville ’ is so laid-back that it simply wafts around your ears like tobacco smoke and they have an irritating habit of pulling their potential punches for fear of treading on someone 's daisies . |
| 12 | These being the conventions whose occurrence is so regular that we barely notice them , the exceptions to them are the more striking . |
| 13 | One , with its morbid traits of personalised delusion , chaotic thinking , and bizarre affect , is so self-destructive that it frequently reduces the sufferer to psychological incompetence . |
| 14 | It is dusk by the time the wild elephants reach the funnel and now the noise of the beaters behind them is so loud that they simply keep going — into the khedda . |
| 15 | In fact , it is so proud that it now boasts at a European level of the cheap U K labour costs and the lack of workers ' rights . |
| 16 | Might it be also true of Jackson 's work that its formalism is so relentless that it actually reveals itself as questioning the parameters within which it operates ? |
| 17 | Its functioning , including leap years , is so familiar that it sometimes comes as a revelation to researchers into early English local history to learn that there were several calendars in use in the past , each somewhat different from the other , with quite distinct ways of referring to months and days , and with days whose hours varied in length according to the season of the year . |
| 18 | Life there is so inexpensive that it just takes longer to get it all done . |
| 19 | The feasting , fun and laughter continue well into the evening , by which time just about everyone is so full that they often prefer something lighter to eat ! |
| 20 | But measuring banking capacity is so difficult that nobody really knows whether an excess exists |
| 21 | Indeed this is so clear that I sometimes wonder why so much effort usually goes into attempting to prove it . |
| 22 | Dega is so myopic that he never takes his glasses off-there is a nice touch when Dustin holds his hand over his spectacles as he is showered down . |
| 23 | Unfortunately senior executives often either consider that no-one less senior than themselves can be trusted with knowledge of a meeting , or that the meeting is so important that they alone are significant enough to occupy the chair . |
| 24 | The profile is so comfortable that you hardly notice it , and the heel and volute are unmistakably the work of someone who believes that ‘ just good enough ’ is just not good enough — brilliant stuff . |