Example sentences of "is so [adj] [that] [noun] " 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 | His desire to have me visit him is so strong that charity will not let me refuse . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Gravity is so strong that space is bent round onto itself , making it rather like the surface of the earth . |
| 5 | In southern California , rainfall is so infrequent that Couch 's spadefoot may breed only once in two years . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The analogy is so close that Alan Kimmel of Fitchburg State College describes rumour ( New York Science Times , June 4 1991 ) as a sort of opportunistic virus that thrives on fear and uncertainty . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The broker reckons although it is hard to fault Sainsbury 's performance in tough economic conditions , the rating discrepancy between it and its peers in the food sector is so great that Sainsbury 's obvious merits are discounted . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The damage that goats can inflict on each other with their sharp horns is so great that aggression has become highly ritualised . |
| 12 | On May 1 the Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia appealed for international aid , saying that " the magnitude of devastation wrought by the latest cyclone is so great that Bangladesh can not face it alone " . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | There is so much that pupils can offer to the school if there can be someone to listen and take notice . |
| 15 | Such an analysis is so extensive that life moves on before the implementation is complete . |
| 16 | The scope of TWE 's business is so wide that US West will probably have to seek the judge 's waiver for one interstate operation or another . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The casualty list is so long that manager Walter Smith can barely face talking about it . |
| 19 | That is one reason it is so keen that East European products , especially its competitive farm products , should have free access to West European markets . |
| 20 | At its climax , their performance is so punishing that senses of sight , sound and balance break down almost entirely . |
| 21 | Finding a new childcarer is so traumatic that 80% of the mothers surveyed admitted they did n't have the courage to give an inadequate nanny the sack immediately ; 60% of those who were unhappy carried on with their carer for a month , and 35% for up to six months . |
| 22 | In fact the defragmenter , Speedisk , is so good that Microsoft bought it and built it into MS-DOS 6 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It is a combination that is so good that Redgrave , 30 , is now looking over his shoulder . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The Vauxhall HPC Seven is so powerful that Caterham took the unusual step of offering a high performance driving course in the price of the car ( between £18,200 and £23,000 ) , compulsory for the under 25s . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The placid dog is a more promising patient and the treatment , I am assured , is so relaxing that dogs often fall asleep . |
| 29 | ‘ America is so big that bands are n't surrounded by other bands trying to do the same thing . |
| 30 | Cooling creates stress in tropical fish and in the Coral Seas it is so alien that coral fish will quickly die if chilled . |