Example sentences of "are so [adj] [that] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Glasses behave as they do because , while they are cooling , they are so viscous that the molecules do not have time to sort themselves out into crystals and so cool glass is a solidified liquid , not a crystalline solid .
2 The implications of this theory are so powerful that the impact of modern linguistics on literary studies has not been limited to problems of literary language alone , but has produced new theories of the nature and organization of literature as a whole and indeed of all social and cultural life .
3 In some cases , preferences are relatively weak , so that two ordered results are produced ; in others , the preferences are so strong that a second result is not produced .
4 Already losses in fibre are so low that a light signal can travel well over 16 km before it halves in intensity ( a 3 dB loss ) .
5 ‘ Agitprop can sometimes be effective , but the problems facing us today are so wide that the only way to engage people and pose dilemmas is to key into matters which are universal .
6 Some clog easily on sticky ground , others are so shallow that the loss of a couple of millimetres due to fair wear and tear produces considerable loss of adhesion .
7 They are in fact the original Green products having been around since 1959 , and are so good that the company 's turnover is about £1 billion .
8 In fact , the drivers are so good that the Windows version of WordPerfect allows you to choose between these drivers and the lesser Windows standard printer drivers .
9 We work with people who have fallen through the existing nets of provision erm generally because their problems are so multiple that no particular one agency can deal with them .
10 The shops are so small that the person in the shop sees every corner , though there are no cameras .
11 Domestic needs for resources are so great that the USSR can not afford to take many losses in Latin America for purely political purposes .
12 As many as one in five of the population attends an accident and emergency unit every year , yet staff shortages are so acute that a quarter of the 239 units in England and Wales do not have a trained consultant in charge .
13 Where the implications of the choice are so overwhelming that the individual ca n't make a choice at all .
14 These days you are so efficient that the magazine even arrives on time !
15 Where broad discretionary powers have been conferred upon public authorities the courts take it upon themselves to review the exercise of those powers to ensure that the body does not make decisions which are so unreasonable that no reasonable body could have come to such a decision ; to ensure that the decision-makers are not biased and that decisions are not made mala fide or for any improper purpose .
16 The point is that it is hard to see the subject-matter under attack as determinations which are so unreasonable that no reasonable authority could come to them , at least not when viewed as Lord Greene M.R. visualised the notion .
17 There are certain books , in almost any field , that are so rare that the collector is very unlikely to find a copy in good condition and , perforce , will have to make do with second , third , or tenth best .
18 As psychologists will readily admit , such scales are unreliable at the extremes because the cases they measure are so rare that the scales can not be adequately calibrated .
19 The truth is that most Thai-Chinese business empires are so complex that no outsider , including bankers and minority shareholders , can ever know their real state of health .
20 It is not put forward as a definitive model for how coping , support and events interrelate in the genesis of psychiatric disorder , because the issues are so complex that the diagram could be redrawn in several different ways and indicate several other likely relationships .
21 If people are paid benefits , the benefit officers make the appropriate deductions , but that is not the answer in the case of people who are so poor that the benefit officers say that nothing more can be deducted .
22 In the four books which Ransome set in East Anglia , the geographical details are so specific that the books can be used as accurate guides to the appropriate parts of Norfolk , Suffolk and Essex .
23 The ancient treasures he restores are so precious that the location of his workshop is a carefully guarded secret .
24 Everything is open to interpretation , usually by the police , and the poor , hard-pressed licensee and his customers are so confused that the usual solution is to avoid the problem and not let children into the pub at all .
25 Some examples of how tests may be failing to take account of cultural biases are so obvious that the errors might appear crass .
26 However , if the core mass is made larger , a condition is reached where the density and temperature are so large that the degenerate electron gas becomes relativistic .
27 The trains are so fast that the passengers complain about not being able to see any of the countries beautiful scenery .
28 Many great rivers — the Ganges and the Indus , the Amazon and the Yangtze — are so muddy that the animals swimming in them can not see more than a few inches ahead .
29 The differences are so significant that the probability of starting fires and the degrees of difficulty in extinguishing fires , once started , can also vary quite widely .
30 Things are so grim that the group , which covers such diverse enterprises as engineering and house building , has been forced to pay its 6p total dividend out of reserves .
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