Example sentences of "is so [adj] that [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 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | Bates gets by because his theme is so universal that practically all the heavyweights have something to say on it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Protein is so important that nearly all diets , no matter what other failings they may have , emphasize adequate protein intake . |
| 9 | The form of input is so basic that almost any application can be encoded as input to a network . |
| 10 | In the broken-wing performance , the realism is so remarkable that even human observers can be fooled when they first encounter it . |
| 11 | The weather is so unpredictable that only those who are well equipped and experienced walkers should attempt the high tops . |