Example sentences of "[is] so [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Normally , the energy of the particle is still positive , but the gravitational field inside a black hole is so strong that even a real particle can have negative energy there . |
| 2 | And in the depths of the forest , the humming is still strong , and the wind is still swirling all about us , and something is stirring , something that is so strong and so purely magical that no one has ever been able to resist it … |
| 3 | MORALE in Britain is so low that nearly half the population would emigrate if they could , according to a survey . |
| 4 | On the one hand the state is reluctant to make them better off than the ‘ good ’ housewife , married and ‘ supported ’ by her husband ( the exact amount of ‘ support ’ decided by him alone ) ; on the other hand , of course , the status of the married housewife is so low that virtually anything going to the single mother makes her better off . |
| 5 | By this we mean a change which is so wide-reaching and so fundamental in its effects as to constitute a dramatic alteration of the status quo . |
| 6 | ‘ The tenancy shall continue until the said land is required by the council for the purposes of the widening of Walworth Road and the street paving works rendered necessary thereby and the council shall give two months ' notice to the tenant at least prior to the day of determination when the said land is so required and thereupon the tenant shall give vacant possession to the council of the said land … |
| 7 | Though the very fact that it is so traditional and so formal a poem in the pastoral tradition , held in the tightness of all the conventions that it employs , not only allows , but in some strange way makes possible , the intensity of personal feeling that it contains . |
| 8 | Dimples mischievously collide with each other at odd places around his face as he glances at me and wonders how on earth I could ask a question that is so dumb and yet so fundamental . |
| 9 | However , in some situations the melody is so pacific and widely spread that harmonic change can be relatively frequent , embroidering but not changing excessively the atmosphere . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | Anything approaching within a distance 2GM/c 2 of the centre is inevitably trapped by the intense gravitational field : space–time is so warped that not even light can escape . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It is so simple and yet so effective . |
| 14 | It is so weak as not really to provide a genuine sense of ‘ conclusive ’ , but this does n't really matter . |
| 15 | Generally speaking , the machine system of section-making is so gentle that only very difficult lithologies and loose sediments will need impregnation . |
| 16 | In front of the entrance there is a pillar of rock forty feet high , called the Soldier Rock , and the entrance itself is so narrow as only to admit a small boat , and then only in fine weather . |
| 17 | It is so nice and easy these days to give an injection , knowing that the beast will be sound in a day or two . |
| 18 | But the judge said : ‘ This offence is so serious that only a custodial sentence can be justified . |
| 19 | When the grand collapse starts , it is so violent and so rapid that nothing can halt it . |
| 20 | He tends to me as one would a convalescent child delirious with a terminal but ticklish illness ; he tends to the outermost hazards of my body ( he is so violent and so tender ) and back to a cave of foetal musk , molested by warmth . |
| 21 | Obviously I would n't be happy with someone who is so selfish and so uninterested in me , so I suppose he 's doing me a favour , really , making it so clear . |
| 22 | It has recently become an issue because it is so visible and entirely unregulated . |
| 23 | The damage done by these species is so great that only rarely do they produce enough identifiable remains for them to be countable . |
| 24 | In 1936 he wrote " Nowadays the trouble and expense involved in keeping a stud of hawks is so great that only a fortunate few are able to do so . " |
| 25 | The applications of a disciplined spatial intuition to art and design , and to the study of natural morphologies in every conceivable science is so great that perhaps we might think of geometry as a semi autonomous department of mathematics with different as well as overlapping purposes to abstract mathematics . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | The planet p' is so small that even the biggest available telescopes can not possibly observe it ; the experimental astronomer applies for a research grant to build yet a bigger one . |
| 28 | We now know this to be true of all the planets ; however , the effect is so small that only in the case of Mercury was it detectable by nineteenth-century astronomers . |
| 29 | ‘ He is so small and so dependent on us , we must do something to save him , ’ said Jason , 20 , from Flixton , Manchester . |
| 30 | For example ‘ Lord Of The Flies ’ on symbolism , no other book I have read is so well and so believably put together with everything fitting together perfectly . |