Example sentences of "is so [adj] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His desire to have me visit him is so strong that charity will not let me refuse . |
| 2 | Gravity is so strong that space is bent round onto itself , making it rather like the surface of the earth . |
| 3 | Now we have video , a complex technology which is so automated and fool-proofed that it enables anyone , whether technically minded or not , to record moving pictures to a standard which can be very high indeed . |
| 4 | In southern California , rainfall is so infrequent that Couch 's spadefoot may breed only once in two years . |
| 5 | One justification for this is that gravity is so weak that quantum gravitational effects would be large only at particle energies way beyond those in any particle accelerator . |
| 6 | Some writers use an engineering analogy and point out that the words ‘ stress ’ , ‘ strain ’ , ‘ tension ’ and ‘ pressure ’ are used when the load becomes too great and a breaking point is reached ; it is the point where the strain is so great that metal ceases to bend and it snaps . |
| 7 | The sales potential for technologydriven , ultra-real pornographic and violent experiences via the computer is so great that computer engineers are furiously designing software that will satisfy an otaku 's ‘ sexual ’ needs . |
| 8 | The damage that goats can inflict on each other with their sharp horns is so great that aggression has become highly ritualised . |
| 9 | Per capita costs of material appear low , but the project is so small that production costs are minimal and a great deal of good will and free time has gone into material production and distribution . |
| 10 | It is so small and mobile that it could easily be hidden , and it can carry nuclear or conventional warheads . |
| 11 | Such an analysis is so extensive that life moves on before the implementation is complete . |
| 12 | The casualty list is so long that manager Walter Smith can barely face talking about it . |
| 13 | The fact that Crosby fought tooth and nail to get the job in an area where the success rate is so limited and expectation so high , speaks volumes for his bottle . |
| 14 | ‘ Then we will take the boy 's speech and writing which is so good and subject it to careful analysis and if we teach the other boys whose writing and speech is not so good how to subject what they say and write to this kind of analysis they will realise how badly they speak and write and will promptly set about trying to improve the way they speak and write … . ’ |
| 15 | Now , the coal crisis is so acute that steam locos on the mountain could become just a memory unless the present oil firing experiments at Snowdon are a success . |
| 16 | But to act too soon on the fiscal deficit , when the economic upturn is so fragile and unemployment already at such unacceptable levels , could risk stopping it in its tracks . |
| 17 | But to act too soon on the fiscal deficit , when the economic upturn is so fragile and unemployment already at such unacceptable levels , could risk stopping it in its tracks . |
| 18 | Initially it appears as an act of balance , with vigorous debate between those who think that censorship is never worth it , and those for whom pornography is so dangerous that censorship is not too high a price at all . |
| 19 | Personal virtue , he went on , was indispensable , for " nothing is so dangerous as intelligence when it is guided by a corrupt heart " . |
| 20 | Cooling creates stress in tropical fish and in the Coral Seas it is so alien that coral fish will quickly die if chilled . |
| 21 | As the temperature increases , the entropy loss incurred during condensation becomes greater until eventually it is so unfavourable that condensation in the polymer is impossible , and phase separation takes place . |
| 22 | In true Eko fashion the guitars have bound fingerboards , zero frets and aluminium nuts/string-guides , and although it 's difficult to be sure , the fingerboard material is so dense and dark — almost black — that it could well be that rare and prized commodity , Brazilian , or Rio , rosewood . |
| 23 | In reality , few farmers wear complete protection at the tank , and the operation is so messy that liquid is bound to get on the smallest area of exposed skin . |
| 24 | The EP observed that ‘ John 's language is so adult and behaviour so violent to other people that the school could not put up with it any longer . ’ |