Example sentences of "is so [adj] that [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Normally , the energy of the particle is still positive , but the gravitational field inside a black hole is so strong that even a real particle can have negative energy there . |
| 2 | MORALE in Britain is so low that nearly half the population would emigrate if they could , according to a survey . |
| 3 | On the one hand the state is reluctant to make them better off than the ‘ good ’ housewife , married and ‘ supported ’ by her husband ( the exact amount of ‘ support ’ decided by him alone ) ; on the other hand , of course , the status of the married housewife is so low that virtually anything going to the single mother makes her better off . |
| 4 | The current level of intelligence is so poor that over half the members of active service units on the mainland have no previous police or intelligence ‘ form ’ ( which is one reason why internment would not work ) . |
| 5 | Anything approaching within a distance 2GM/c 2 of the centre is inevitably trapped by the intense gravitational field : space–time is so warped that not even light can escape . |
| 6 | The land is so dry that only isolated juniper trees and low scrub freckle the surface of the cliffs and the rock strata , some soft , some hard , are clear and stark . |
| 7 | Generally speaking , the machine system of section-making is so gentle that only very difficult lithologies and loose sediments will need impregnation . |
| 8 | But the judge said : ‘ This offence is so serious that only a custodial sentence can be justified . |
| 9 | The damage done by these species is so great that only rarely do they produce enough identifiable remains for them to be countable . |
| 10 | In 1936 he wrote " Nowadays the trouble and expense involved in keeping a stud of hawks is so great that only a fortunate few are able to do so . " |
| 11 | The applications of a disciplined spatial intuition to art and design , and to the study of natural morphologies in every conceivable science is so great that perhaps we might think of geometry as a semi autonomous department of mathematics with different as well as overlapping purposes to abstract mathematics . |
| 12 | A second group is at the opposite extreme of breakage , with no mandibles intact , and this includes the mammalian carnivores , the little owl and most of the diurnal raptors not included in the main analysis ( not included because the damage is so great that hardly any recognizable bone is left in the pellets : see Table 2.1 ) . |
| 13 | The planet p' is so small that even the biggest available telescopes can not possibly observe it ; the experimental astronomer applies for a research grant to build yet a bigger one . |
| 14 | We now know this to be true of all the planets ; however , the effect is so small that only in the case of Mercury was it detectable by nineteenth-century astronomers . |
| 15 | In theory this should sort out the wheat from the chaff but the definition of wheat in the intelligence world is so wide that even with the best filter the net volume of material is of such staggering proportions that it is beyond any useful human assessment . |
| 16 | Say is so eloquent that even Cade feels remorse ( 104f. ) , but still has him killed . |
| 17 | In this region the integration of the drainage pattern is so good that practically every point in the area can be assigned to one or another of the former drainage basins . |
| 18 | ‘ But the problem about heroin is that the money is so good that even the good people do it ’ . |
| 19 | To celebrate the release of Marty 's new album , Jackson have asked us to give away the new ‘ Marty Friedman ’ Signature model , which is so new that even we have n't seen it yet . |
| 20 | Sometimes and in some places , the labour is so time-consuming that even the most hard-working of parents can not manage it unaided . |
| 21 | Sometimes the dominant female is so powerful that only she becomes pregnant and her subordinates must await her demise before being able to breed themselves . |
| 22 | Bates gets by because his theme is so universal that practically all the heavyweights have something to say on it . |
| 23 | There are also periods where the curve is so steep that apparently large differences in radiocarbon results arise from events separated by relatively small amounts of real time . |
| 24 | The slogan is so grey-haired that even at party conferences it would n't get a ripple of applause . |
| 25 | The United States is so big that even in the twentieth century the inhabitants prefer to explore their own continent . |
| 26 | According to the report , pollution is so bad that even 100 kilometres away in the national capital of Prague , up to 99.3 per cent of the 1.2 million people live in a highly degraded environment as a direct result . |
| 27 | The burst took ten seconds because a dying star 's core is so dense that even neutrinos bang into things on their way out . |
| 28 | She suspects that Charles suspects that she had once had an affair with Ivan , but of course she had not , though she concedes that Ivan is so unpleasant that only a degree of past sexual intimacy could plausibly explain the kind of relationship that he and Liz have over the years established . |
| 29 | Protein is so important that nearly all diets , no matter what other failings they may have , emphasize adequate protein intake . |
| 30 | Ah , I I think this is impo , is so important that actually , whether you like it or not you 're gon na get it , er written down with the scriptures to go with th , o on the next monthly thing . |