Example sentences of "is so [adj] that [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The increased order is so strong that no neuro-electric message can fight it — a special EM field has to be applied . |
| 2 | There are a number of modelling programs suitable for use on microcomputers at a price which is so low that a complete system often costs less than the terminals used merely to communicate with larger computers . |
| 3 | Life expectancy is so low that the average life span of men just before we got here ( in the last quarter of the seventeenth century ) was 29.6 years . |
| 4 | The lintel is so low that the only man who can enter is the man who is down on his knees . |
| 5 | It applies whenever the defendant raises the defences of justification and fair comment , and will apply if the defence is to be qualified privilege unless the evidence of malice is so overwhelming that no reasonable jury would sustain the privilege . |
| 6 | But Judge Robin David told Dodman : ‘ This matter is so serious that a custodial sentence is inevitable . |
| 7 | But Judge Robin David told Dodman : ‘ This matter is so serious that a custodial sentence is inevitable . ’ |
| 8 | Coun Gilchrist said : ‘ The situation is so serious that the whole system is creaking under the strain . |
| 9 | The election is so close that the slightest shift in voter opinion during the next 80 to 90 hours not only could , but probably would , determine the outcome . |
| 10 | Its use in the instance quoted is so straightforward that no special attention needed to be drawn to it . |
| 11 | Shareholders in Unisys have been through so much misery , the fear that the IBM mainframe blight will soon infect the company is so great that no reasonable offer for the company is likely to be refused — and while the Unisys debt burden is now manageable , it is still onerous for a company of Unisys ' size , but AT&T 's credit remains almost as good as gold . |
| 12 | In fact the force is so great that a concentrated jet from the water is capable of cutting straight through concrete . |
| 13 | The foreman of his jury wrote a letter to " The Times " : " Where a jury has to decide , as men and women of the world , " how much " " , the degree of uncertainty is so great that a random answer , consistent only with a total lack of any sort of yardstick , can be expected . |
| 14 | Indeed , one commentator has argued that the cost of acquiring control is so great that the disciplinary force of the market is ‘ likely to be limited to instances of gross managerial failure ’ . |
| 15 | It has been pointed out that " unreasonableness " has been used in two ways in this area : ( a ) in an " umbrella " sense where it has been used as a synonym for abuse of power covering the various aspects of abuse of power already mentioned ; ( b ) in a substantive sense where it means manifest unreasonableness , a decision or exercise of power that is so unreasonable that no reasonable man would agree with it . |
| 16 | The second meaning may be termed the ‘ substantive sense ’ of unreasonableness : a decision may be attacked if it is so unreasonable that no reasonable public body could have made it . |
| 17 | However , if hydrostatic theory is then used to calculate the possible range of values of the polar moment of inertia C from the axial spin period T a and the allowed values up to the upper limit of either f or J 2 , the calculated range of values of C is so wide that no useful constraints on the variation of density with depth are obtained . |
| 18 | Clause 11(b) is so far-ranging that an alert professional insurance adviser would probably need some explanation of the likely liability of the haulier ‘ howsoever or whensoever caused as a result of or arising out of the supply to the client by the company of drivers ’ . |
| 19 | The inflow of seawater here is so deep that the overlying freshwater traps the deep waters making them sometimes anoxic ( totally lacking oxygen ) . |
| 20 | The poison is so effective that a single dart can kill a monkey in seconds . |
| 21 | This difference in treatment between pre- and post-petition assignments is so stark that the inevitable conclusion is that pre-petition assignments were not intended to be outlawed . |
| 22 | The shortage of housing is so acute that the vast Cairene cemeteries , known as the City of the Dead , host a population of squatters thought to number over a million . |
| 23 | In other words the employer 's conduct is so bad that a reasonable employee can not be expected to endure it any longer . |
| 24 | It has been argued that human wealth is so illiquid that the greater is this h ratio , the greater will be the demand for money to compensate for the limited marketability of human wealth . |
| 25 | Recommendations may include safety factors in practical areas , for instance , home economics or chemistry , and suggested alternative activities in cases where sight loss is so severe that the general activity is inappropriate , for example , judo or weight lifting instead of football . |
| 26 | But French nuclear experts are convinced that the ‘ reference accident ’ ( a core melt-down in which the molten fuel reacts with the sodium coolant ) is so improbable that the secondary containment dome can be done away with . |
| 27 | This area of business is so important that the nuclear nations should throw overboard all thought of evenhandedness . |
| 28 | ‘ We have a crisis every year in Lancashire , ’ he claimed , ‘ because expectation is so high that the slightest wobble seems a disaster . |
| 29 | The scatter at the high end — small numbers of authors publishing large numbers of papers — is so large that a straight line can not be fitted to this graph with any degree of confidence . |
| 30 | The scatter at the high end — small numbers of authors publishing large numbers of papers — is so large that a straight line can not be fitted to this graph with any degree of confidence . |