Example sentences of "is so [adj] [conj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The resulting exposition is so authoritative that practitioners and the courts departed from it only rarely unless subsequent developments made this necessary . |
| 2 | Mrs Prentiss , the wife of the American consul in St Pierre wrote a letter home : ‘ The smell of sulphur is so strong that horses in the street stop and snort , and some of them drop in their harness and die of suffocation . |
| 3 | But it is so serious when children get it , and thousands of children have it … |
| 4 | There is so much that pupils can offer to the school if there can be someone to listen and take notice . |
| 5 | The author is not aware of any book dealing with the totality of this field , indeed it is so wide that generalisations can be misleading . |
| 6 | At its climax , their performance is so punishing that senses of sight , sound and balance break down almost entirely . |
| 7 | But the pigeon 's adaptation to such a diet of large objects is so good that seeds only a little smaller than a nutmeg will pass right through the bird and be ejected together with a small quantity of droppings which will help them grow on the forest floor . |
| 8 | The placid dog is a more promising patient and the treatment , I am assured , is so relaxing that dogs often fall asleep . |
| 9 | ‘ America is so big that bands are n't surrounded by other bands trying to do the same thing . |
| 10 | The children 's charity , Barnardos , says that poverty in Britain is so bad that parents are going hungry so that the children can eat . |
| 11 | Another area of apparent convergence is that both schools of thought would acknowledge that in some situations parental care is so bad that children should be removed and kept away from their parents . |
| 12 | County Durham headteacher , Olwyn Gunn , a national executive member of the National Association of Schoolmasters and Union of Women Teachers , said : ‘ I really do n't know of any school where poverty is so bad that children are being treated like this . ’ |
| 13 | We have been given to understand that our forest of Chippenham around the place called ‘ Holloway ’ is so dense that malefactors are able to lie hid in those parts , and so travellers are threatened with frequent losses , and some incur peril of lives and goods there . |
| 14 | It could also be that the chain of distribution is so complicated that margins are pared to nothing . |
| 15 | In some cases , incidentally , this is so precise that embryologists can give a name to each cell , and a given cell in one individual organism can be said to have an exact counterpart in another organism . |
| 16 | It is this opening up and exposure of traditional dance that is so important when choreographers attempt to give a realistic atmosphere to the style and expression of their work . |
| 17 | And the ensuing pain is so intense that victims seem , for a while , to go out of their minds . |