Example sentences of "is so [adj] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | We say that he has done enough damage in bringing about the birth of this child , in giving him a father who does not know he is his father , a mother who is so ice-cold a scientist that she willingly abandons her own child to the researcher in the laboratory , where he will inevitably be regarded in the same light as any other laboratory animal . |
2 | This is so broad a definition that it could include almost any building , structure , or site of archaeological interest made or occupied by man at any time . |
3 | This is so fundamental a point that I will develop this in some detail . |
4 | a great waste ground of four miles broad and more … and the side thereof that lieth towards England is the common pasture of the uttermost inhabited towns of England , and the side thereof towards Scotland is so wet a moss or marshy ground that it will neither bear corn nor serve for the pasture of any cattle , also their way scarcely any man pass over it . |
5 | This is so common a reaction that it warrants a section on its own , even though reference to this was made in Chapter 5 . |
6 | This type of alteration in the appearance of the eye goes on all day , as the animal moves from light to shade and back again , and it is so common a shift that it tends to obscure the other pupil changes that are taking place . |