Example sentences of "[noun] is so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The even strength of his fingers and his robust eloquence ( James Huneker would never have found the Scherzo from the B minor Sonata ‘ as light as a harebell ’ after this ! ) and assurance are often awe-inspiring ; few young pianists have found a more direct path to musical truth , or heeded Jorge Bolet 's adage that speed is so often the enemy of excitement . |
| 2 | When the losses are recognized for what they are then the healing of the pain can begin , but so often the loss is so deeply buried in people 's minds that it can take a long while for it to come to the surface again . |
| 3 | To do this , he must have thorough familiarity with the living fauna , because the information on living animals is so much more complete . |
| 4 | In summary , the assessment of pain in babies and animals is so much more difficult than in adult humans that we must face the likelihood that we often get it wrong . |
| 5 | One wonders that murder is so seldom done . |
| 6 | A Santa Monica health club is so far the only place where Americans can switch E for O. In Hungary , however , such matters are more of an imperative than a luxury ; over 10 per cent of the country 's deaths are pollution-related . |
| 7 | The Bloods/Crips programme is so infinitely the best scheme for recovering LA thus far offered that I append it here in its vivacious entirety . |
| 8 | In Bharatpur , the competition between Rajiv Gandhi 's ruling Congress ( I ) party and the assorted forces of the anti-Congress opposition is so finely poised , and the pool of royal admirers so deep , that three prominent relatives of Maharajah Brijendra Singh have slipped into a democratic version of an old autocratic vice : the royal family feud . |
| 9 | It 's a great guitar for doing that , because the neck is so even ; it 's so solid from the nut to the bridge . ’ |
| 10 | It is not easy to decide why the Bach is so much more expressive . |
| 11 | It is this cause and effect relationship that has become quite lost in respect of ionic strength , precisely because the correlation at low concentration is so seductively good . |
| 12 | Tedious though this point may be , it is particularly in need of emphasis today , when the value of research is so often judged only by expected and short-term practical applications . |
| 13 | The finding in this study that gastrin mediated acid secretion is so appreciably increased ( sixfold ) in duodenal ulcer patients compared with true normal subjects ( H pylori negative healthy volunteers ) implies that it is likely to be the key factor in the pathophysiology of duodenal ulcer disease . |
| 14 | The sufferer from alcoholism is so frequently involved in traffic offences that it has been said that just two drink-driving offences are a strong indication of alcoholism . |
| 15 | The snow is so deep — three metres outside the door here — that after big storms , potentially dangerous ski areas remain inaccessible for a few days . |
| 16 | Yet I know of no picture in which the mid-day heat of Midsummer is so admirably expressed ; and were not the eye refreshed by the shade thrown over a great part of the foreground by some young trees , that border the road , and the cool blue of water near it , one would wish , in looking at it , for a parasol , as Fuseli wished for an umbrella when standing before one of Constable 's showers . |
| 17 | To take the initiative yourself , however is often too difficult : your mind may have convinced you that your confusion is so much greater than other people 's , your backlog of work so much longer , your reputation so much lower , that to open yourself to the social confirmation of these frightful facts would be a pointless and self-sacrificing thing to do . |
| 18 | But this turnover is so extraordinarily slow that each grain could only have been exposed during the last 4600 Ma for a total time much less than a million years thus requiring considerably higher cosmic-ray intensities in the past , which though possible is thought by several scientists to be unlikely . |
| 19 | Lewis Smedes , in his book Sex in the Real World , lists a number of reasons why adultery is so much more common now than in previous generations . |
| 20 | That is why British industry is so adamantly opposed to that ridiculous directive . |
| 21 | Certainly general policies , such as those reproduced in part below , could have the effect not only of preventing but abating existing odour nuisance , the county council having recognised that in most cases where odour pollution causes problems , the source of the odour is either close to residential property or industry is so densely concentrated that the total odour emission is unacceptable . |
| 22 | The miner , whose dangerous and unpleasant labour is so misguidedly romanticized , will be eliminated . |
| 23 | In 22 the Poet is so much a part of the Friend that he can not age , himself , ‘ So long as youth and thou are of one date ’ . |
| 24 | The general standard of living is so much better , I have a f—ed-up up family — who does n't have a f—ed-up family ? — I 'm screwed-up and should be in some psychiatrist 's office , but in general there was n't that much for me to worry about , and I think that 's a lot less common in England . |
| 25 | Genette 's discussion of Proust is so far reaching that his book can be regarded as much as a reading of A la recherche as a contribution to narrative theory , and to this extent it represents a challenge to the generic distinctions normally made in structuralist thinking between poetics and criticism . |
| 26 | Indeed , it is tempting to suppose that the appeal of English a cappella groups in Europe ( not to mention in America ) is that the sound of Oxbridge chapel voices is so very ‘ classy ’ in every sense of the word . |
| 27 | Even if the court can not point to the actual error , nevertheless , if the figure is so extravagantly large or so inadequately small that the only conclusion is that he must have gone wrong somewhere , then the court will interfere in much the same way as the Court of Appeal will interfere with an award of damages if it is a wholly erroneous estimate . |
| 28 | To confront that figure is so very hard , but it is , I believe , to confront our salvation , and the salvation of the world . |
| 29 | Assynt is so heavily populated with small fish , it is considered good policy to reduce their numbers ; fewer mouths mean more food all round , and larger trout . |
| 30 | The parallel is obvious ; and of course the tendency to emphasize the similarities of business and non-business reporting is so much greater . |