Example sentences of "is so [adj] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , the ozone deposition velocity is so low over water ( 0.1cms -1 ) that dry deposition can not explain the rate of ozone loss apparent in Fig. 1 during morning hours . |
| 2 | Safe , too , is John Birt , Hussey 's choice as director-general-designate , although morale is so low within news and current affairs at the BBC that rumours are circulating of a secret haven within ITN where ammunition is being collected from dissident BBC executives to try to blast Birt out . |
| 3 | ‘ What we 're trying to do is have a piece of research that is so novel and is so placeable within industry that they ca n't really say no . |
| 4 | Ashton 's Alain shows yet another aspect of the sad clown or ‘ little man ’ and can , when subtly played , gain much sympathy because , while things seem to go right , he is so pleased with life . |
| 5 | And then again , what is so terrible about death ? |
| 6 | The café itself is so crowded with smoke that I sit outside on a bench . |
| 7 | I think it was a tribute to consensual politics which is so rare of course with our other adversarial system that we have in Britain . |
| 8 | But his output of madrigals between 1554 and 1603 — more than a thousand secular ones alone — is so overwhelming in bulk and seemingly so equable in accomplishment that even anthologists have generally recoiled from it although Alfred Einstein has published de Monte 's greatest success in his own day , ‘ Verament ’ in amore' in his Fifth Book a cinque voci ( Venice , 1574 ) . |
| 9 | These receive tax concessions for operating in Mexico but their location is so close to North America that they are near their distribution networks and markets , and other North American facilities . |
| 10 | is so close to Dad 's spine it 's |
| 11 | ‘ I will speak to you today on a text from that book , the Book of Exodus , which is so replete with wisdom concerning the leader and the led . |
| 12 | Of course , not everyone is so obsessed with body size that they are constantly on the ‘ yo-yo ’ of diet , break diet , diet , break diet , and so on . |
| 13 | Yet no country is so obsessed by race . |
| 14 | The range of possible scientometric measures involving the use of citation counts in association with other factors is large , but the field is so fluid at present that many recent papers suggest new combinations of factors , whereas there is often no theoretical basis for these measures . |
| 15 | " When you inhale the poison of cholera it kills or impairs the functions of the ganglionic nerves which line the air-cells of the lungs … hence , the vital chemistry of the lungs is suspended ; neither caloric nor vital electricity is evolved hence , the coldness which is so typical of cholera . |
| 16 | It is a passage that clearly portrays an intimate similarity between the two characters , although the wife is in some telling respects the more subtle of the two , reflecting the feminine cunning that is so typical of fabliau wives . |
| 17 | Well the reason they would n't do it there , the cost is so great in comparison with the number of houses |
| 18 | It 's nice to know that a British company is so much at home overseas . |
| 19 | ‘ And he is so much in love with her , he 's acting irrationally . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Mrs Lucas , your chutney is so much in demand each year , could I prevail upon you … ? ’ |
| 21 | There is Harriet Jacobs , 20 years after abolition , working as a nanny to four children in a house with lB rooms writing : Poor Hatty 's name is so much in demand that I can not accomplish much ; if I could steal away and have two quiet months to myself … |
| 22 | We are witnessing the birth of a civilization which nurtures ideas and creativity precisely because it is so rich in diversity . |
| 23 | It is so rich in flavour , so sweet , so cool , fresh — and so entirely appropriate to the high summer of the Mediterranean . |
| 24 | Sun is so flush with cash that it plans to buy in up to 7.5m of its own shares , 7.5% ; the purchases will be funded from available working capital and the shares will be held in treasury or used for ongoing stock issues for its employee share ownership plans . |
| 25 | Since NZ is so good for walking , I recommend bringing a pair of boots ; we can then do the occasional walk for variety 's sake . |
| 26 | For many people there is something terrifying in the thought that in a universe in which man is so insignificant in comparison with the unreasoning forces of nature , most of his own organism belongs to or wants to defect to nature . |
| 27 | Since and expresses so many connective meanings and as it is so frequent in speech it is not surprising that young children sometimes overuse it in their writing , as in this piece by an 8 year old boy : |
| 28 | Editor , — We are concerned that Robin Russell Jones should hold such a poor view of general practitioners ' accuracy in making dermatological diagnoses and is so opposed to community clinics . |
| 29 | Sauron 's army is so overcome with fear that no swords are drawn and they run away . |
| 30 | The three bedrooms cater ‘ for that separation which , with a family , is so essential to morality and decency ’ ; moreover , ‘ the children 's bedrooms … opening out of the living-room , an opportunity is afforded for the exercise of parental watchfulness ’ . |