Example sentences of "is so [adj] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday 's initial tour selection is so strong as to make no difference . |
| 2 | As Gombrich points out : ‘ the experience of the underlying constancies in a person 's face which is so strong as to survive all the transformations of mood and age and even to leap across generations , conflicts with the strange fact that such recognition can be inhibited with comparative ease by what may be called the mask ’ . |
| 3 | Particularly in the early period , moreover , the number of usages one comes across is so low as to make definition a hazardous business . |
| 4 | This process will continue until a price level is reached which is so low as to make so high as to ensure that the effective labour demand function eventually coincides with the notional labour demand function . |
| 5 | I 've managed to scan it in , but the resolution is so low as to make it unread- able . |
| 6 | Now I would say to sa say that that is almost a bit like the story of the boy crying that he did n't have many holidays because he did n't go to school and that because Harrogate 's er unemployment is so low or has been historically so low compared with other areas , a relatively small increase in the number of unemployment has an enormous increase as compared with what it 's been in the past and so the same number of people living in Harrogate who lose their jobs has an impact on the unemployment figures as perceived locally greater than a similar number of people losing their jobs in Leeds or Selby or somewhere else , and so I think to some extent this the rhetoric has outrun the reality on that point . |
| 7 | His job is so delicate that to ring birds like this Bill has had to train for two years under the watchful eye of a certified ringer . |
| 8 | When Jack and Alick , after being shipwrecked and narrowly escaping murder , starvation and sundry other perils , are reunited with Terence on board a brig-of-war , he declares it is worth being lost when reunion is so pleasant and ends with a flourish : ‘ Old fellows , I knew you would come back somehow or other ; I always said so ; astride of a dolphin , if in no other way … ’ |
| 9 | The whole effect is so convincing that flies not only visit flower after flower , transporting the stapelia 's pollen , but even complete the activity for which they visit real carrion — laying their eggs on the flower just as they do in a carcass . |
| 10 | Misunderstandings have sometimes arisen from an unwarrantable belief that title deeds are sacrosanct documents , whereas the truth is that neither a conveyance nor a land certificate retains its value if the landowner is so indifferent as to lose physical control of his land . |
| 11 | where grievous excess of physical suffering is bred , large parts of the same soil yield , side by side with it , evils of another kind … in some of the regions of insanitary influence , civilization and morals suffer almost equally with health … education … is little likely to penetrate , unless with amended sanitary law , nor human life to be morally raised while physically it is so degraded and squandered . |
| 12 | For our decade-conscious brains , an event that happens only once per aeon is so rare as to seem a major miracle . |
| 13 | Occasionally , a student — perhaps in mathematics or logic — can be seen actually to make a contribution to the research literature , but that is so rare as to appear precocious . |
| 14 | The supply of left-handed clubs is so insufficient as to deter those left-handers who may be considering taking up the sport . |
| 15 | I am glad to see from your report of the psychiatrist Professor Michael Rutter 's lecture at the Royal Institution that despite his former membership of the Lawther Working Party on lead pollution , Rutter now acknowledges that the hazard from lead in petrol is so serious as to require a total ban ( This Week , 3 March , p 567 ) . |
| 16 | Unless the seller commits a breach of condition or commits a breach of warranty which is so serious as to deprive the buyer of substantially the whole benefit of the contract , the buyer has no right to reject the goods or recover the price ( see paragraph 7–04 above ) . |
| 17 | But between the practice of the two , the difference of degree is so great as to amount to a difference in kind . |
| 18 | A hyaena 's nasal membranes have a surface area fifty times bigger and the richness of the information they can gather is so great and varied that it is difficult for us to appreciate it . |
| 19 | Sometimes a problem is so worded as to involve two successive questions , but the second question logically arises only if the first is answered in a certain way . |
| 20 | It is so presented as to invite us to see no difference between on the one hand management appointed by , acting for , and accountable to owners , and on the other union representatives appointed by , acting for , and accountable to employees . |
| 21 | Such interaction is threatened when the pace of change is too fast or when the nature of that change is so radical as to transform the nature of the activity . |
| 22 | However , he should ask himself why it is that , when people are given access and are judged eligible for the benefits , the administration is so inadequate that paying out the genuine benefits breaks the system . |
| 23 | The theme is so persistent as to invite analysis . |
| 24 | And as your Lordship is so good as to talk to some of the Agents that deal that way I shall be exceedingly obliged … if any thing can be done ’ . |
| 25 | As part of the registration process the Law Society must satisfy itself that the legal profession of which the applicant is a member is one which is so regulated as to make it appropriate : — |
| 26 | It is so efficient and saves vast amounts of time and money . |
| 27 | They use a business language that is so predictable and going out and doing it is not part of the course . |
| 28 | Local telecoms-equipment makers can supply only feeble 1950s gear ; and foreign exchange is so scarce that importing fancy western hardware or technology is impossible . |
| 29 | Firstly , we have ‘ a state of affairs that is so acute as to constitute a danger ’ — and , we would add , a moral challenge of a scale which makes it one of the most pressing social issues of the day . |
| 30 | No dog is so obstinate as to starve itself to death . |