Example sentences of "[be] so [adj] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a performance that I keep in my memory , and am so pleased that MK remembers the playing . |
| 2 | What really happens during the very early or late stages of the universe , when gravitational fields are so strong that quantum effects can not be ignored ? |
| 3 | ‘ We are so thankful that donor organs became available just 10 days after Laura arrived in America . ’ |
| 4 | The calls of killer whales vary from group to group and these dialects are so distinct that people can tell them apart . |
| 5 | I admit that our schools are so good that parents from neighbouring boroughs such as Greenwich , Lewisham and Bromley want to send children to our schools in Bexley . |
| 6 | Some birds are so small that twigs are too coarse a material for them to use as the main fabric of their nest . |
| 7 | You will think of many examples , but the differences are so small that context is crucial . |
| 8 | The scale and importance of the nationalized concerns are so great that ministers are not prepared to give their managers a free hand . |
| 9 | Analysis of the maintenance and reproduction of collectivism is divided over whether the tradition of collectivism encourages the voluntary conformity of individuals , or whether the sanctions on non-conformity are so great that individuals have no alternative . |
| 10 | Levi , the fellow whose clothes are so ordinary that Payne Stewart would n't use them for dusting his furniture . |
| 11 | The arguments in favour of the provision of an outer bypass for Edinburgh , designed to a high standard , are so overwhelming that Lothian Regional Council is maintaining a continuing construction programme aimed at completion of the entire bypass by 1990 . |
| 12 | Belgium is the extreme case of a country whose own institutions are so weak that EC integration seems the only substitute . |
| 13 | This is why the simple random walk theories are so successful and whey they apply to rubbers , gels and even to thermosets . |
| 14 | If things are so serious that people start picking locks and planting letters , I do n't want to know anymore . |
| 15 | As a consequence , they dislike having to attend incidents at this time which are so serious that action can not be avoided . |
| 16 | The calculations needed to refine quantum chromodynamics , the theory of the strong nuclear force between quarks , are so tedious that theorists can not be bothered to do them . |
| 17 | Squids are so intelligent and swift-moving that they must find little difficulty in avoiding man 's clumsy deep-sea dredges . |
| 18 | It is probable that homologous cross-veins do not exist in many orders but their positions in some cases are so constant that analogies , if not homologies , can be traced and similar names are applicable . |
| 19 | ‘ We are so lucky that Oliver will be fine and can now move his arms and legs , ’ said Caroline . |
| 20 | Attitudes were originally selected as possible determinants of child development because they were of a general and abstract nature ; but their use as anything but abbreviated labels has now been abandoned just because they are so abstract and general . |
| 21 | Raynor said softly , ‘ But you are so beautiful that men would die for you , ’ and Grainne looked up , startled , because the words had been so soft that she could not be sure she had heard them correctly , yet she knew she had . |
| 22 | The penalties against fat women are so extreme that women continue to starve themselves and buy useless diet products rather than endure such humiliation and exclusion . |
| 23 | It may be true , as you say , that most types of continental facility can be found in Britain ( if you look hard enough ) , but conditions on the continent are so superior that visitors to this country must get quite a shock . |
| 24 | In some countries , notably in Latin America , inflation rates are so high that salaries need to double or more each year to maintain their spending power . |
| 25 | The cost of developing new generations of chip technology are so high that collaboration is increasingly the order of the day , and Advanced Micro Devices Inc and Hewlett-Packard Co have decided to join forces on the development of logic process technology to enable the production of microprocessors with 5m to 10m transistors on a single chip by 1995 . |
| 26 | Standards are so high that guests never suspect they are bathing in a prefab and installation is quick and easy . |
| 27 | Much the same can be said of the widespread use of ‘ suggestion schemes ’ , which although not compulsory are so widespread that employees feel obliged to participate in them . |
| 28 | Charlie Mears , the bank clerk , however , is more usually a secondrate poet who does not understand the value of his ‘ dreams ’ , scorning to think of them in terms of actual reincarnations , though these dreams are so vivid that reality and unreality seem mixed . |
| 29 | The departures from a spherically symmetrical gravitational field are so big that J 2 is large enough to have been measured very accurately , and for the same reason this is also the case for the next gravitational coefficient in the series , J 4 ( jay-four ) . |
| 30 | Although this example takes the point to an extreme , I have noticed that many people mistakenly use flowers that are so big that there' is barely room for them in the frame , and therefore the finished miniature is not as full of detail , nor as interesting , as a larger picture would be . |