Example sentences of "is so [adj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We say that he has done enough damage in bringing about the birth of this child , in giving him a father who does not know he is his father , a mother who is so ice-cold a scientist that she willingly abandons her own child to the researcher in the laboratory , where he will inevitably be regarded in the same light as any other laboratory animal . |
| 2 | Nature is so complete a system . |
| 3 | This is so broad a definition that it could include almost any building , structure , or site of archaeological interest made or occupied by man at any time . |
| 4 | The political ambitions of the CLB can be deduced from its interpretation of the Edwardian crisis : ‘ At so critical a period in British history as the present , when there is so great and unfortunate a tendency to slackness , ease , and carelessness as to religion , morals , and work , when there is so great a craving for pleasure 's sake , when so serious a social problem as the great army of the unfit and unemployed has become a national scandal and a public danger ’ , it was necessary to provide men of the future with ‘ that spirit of self-denial , self-control and definiteness of righteous purpose ’ which had put Britain in the lead among nations . |
| 5 | That would have reduced exposure ; but it is so small a step from cutting the level to removing it altogether that perhaps that is now a wiser move given the shift in public opinion . |
| 6 | with alcohol I mean alcohol is so much a part of the establishment of Oxford . |
| 7 | In the drawing there is so wide a divergence between the upward curve of the optimist and the downward curve of the pessimist that most situations are covered . |
| 8 | Even the surreal speech that is so distinctive a feature of Orton 's comedies was based in part on the systematic collection of real-life instances ( Lahr 1980 ) . |
| 9 | This is why fiction , including children 's fiction , is so irreplaceable a form of human knowledge . |
| 10 | One of the reasons why owl pellet analysis is so useful a tool for ecologists is the good preservation and lack of breakage of most of the bones . |
| 11 | Because this is so crucial a matter for consideration in RE , I discuss this example in some detail . |
| 12 | Suffering is so prominent a part of the Gospel that it has been described as a Passion story with an introduction . |
| 13 | But because it is so powerful a fish , such a doughty fighter and has to be dragged up from such depths , Latimeria very seldom reaches the shore alive . |
| 14 | As to honest Partridge , he meant no wrong , for he is so bold a mountaineer , he can go anywhere that a sheep can ; and I dare say thinks every person can do the same . ’ |
| 15 | This is so fundamental a point that I will develop this in some detail . |
| 16 | a great waste ground of four miles broad and more … and the side thereof that lieth towards England is the common pasture of the uttermost inhabited towns of England , and the side thereof towards Scotland is so wet a moss or marshy ground that it will neither bear corn nor serve for the pasture of any cattle , also their way scarcely any man pass over it . |
| 17 | Little wonder then that the battle for sheer survival is so important a part of the task . |
| 18 | McClellan has written that ‘ the knowledge of books is so important a requirement in each factor of book provision that an organisation of staff based on bibliography seems self-evident ’ . |
| 19 | The last four lines of this sonnet are seldom quoted , but to me they represent Shakespeare at his best , that intimate tone and unforced style of which Angel Day 's account of the personal letter is so apt a description : ‘ the familiar and mutuall talke of one absent friend to another … simple , plaine , and of the lowest and meanest stile ’ — yet how expressive : It is rare , even in his poetry , to find traditional tropes reanimated with such freshness and simplicity . |
| 20 | It might destroy part of the ozone layer , which would permit the sun 's ultra-violet radiation either to tan us or fry us , depending upon how large a hole had been blasted in the stratosphere : it might equally well cause the onset of a nuclear winter , which is so popular a topic among both scientists and laymen these days . |
| 21 | This is so widespread a reason for rejecting religion , present in all strata of society and amongst all types of people , young and old , that any RE which fails to help pupils think clearly about it is seriously deficient . |
| 22 | This is so common a reaction that it warrants a section on its own , even though reference to this was made in Chapter 5 . |
| 23 | This type of alteration in the appearance of the eye goes on all day , as the animal moves from light to shade and back again , and it is so common a shift that it tends to obscure the other pupil changes that are taking place . |