Example sentences of "so [adj] [conj] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to a report , the second lock up was in fact so narrow that occasionally a boat would be partially gripped , causing it to plunge dangerously . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A sheltered housing project in Thornaby has proved so popular that only a few flats are left . |
| 4 | The cost of freehold land is so high that only a wealthy man who farms intensively can hope to make a living on his own small farm . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This weakens the leaf 's connection to the tree so much that even a light breeze can blow it off . |
| 7 | There is not so much as even a prima facie case for imagining that the ad hoc domestic forces available for the Latin music and the English devotional settings bore any close resemblance to the stereotyped and institutionalized vocal dispositions ( SAATB , succeeding SATB and SATTB ) supplied by the contemporary church choir ; these several bodies of music need to be addressed separately . |
| 8 | But the judge said : ‘ This offence is so serious that only a custodial sentence can be justified . |
| 9 | The Novel gives a familiar relation of such things as pass every day before our eyes , such as may happen to our friends , or to ourselves , and the perfection of it is , to represent every scene in so easy and natural a manner , and to make them appear so probable , as to deceive us into a persuasion ( at least while we are reading ) that all is real , until we are affected by the joys or distresses , of the persons in the story , as if they were our own . |
| 10 | Currency markets , however , take the view that the deficit is so large that only a lower exchange rate will help to speed up the adjustment . |
| 11 | The vicar is now so unpopular that only a handful of people still attend St Mary 's Church . |
| 12 | This is necessary because the psychological action on many bodily processes can be so great that even a sugar pill can have striking therapeutic effects if the person believes it will . |
| 13 | Such criticism of American policy would be counter-productive ; the claims on the United States for economic and military assistance were so great that only a limited amount could be given to Korea . |
| 14 | 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 . " |
| 15 | It has been in the sub-contracting game for so long that about a third of Toyota or Nissan cars are to varying degrees made by other smaller firms . |
| 16 | But her beautiful mask had just slipped , and underneath were fear and insecurity so deep that only a professional would be able to uproot them . |
| 17 | Then he realised that they were presumably so poor that even a choice of cornflakes or lumpy porridge , along with underdone toast and margarine , had the overwhelming attraction of being free . |
| 18 | It was , however , nothing so dramatic or pompous-merely a statement revealing that at that time the question of my succession to Macmillan had simply not crossed my mind . |
| 19 | Our perception of spermatozoa was changed forever by Woody Allen 's impersonation of one in Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex , and University of Pennsylvania are giving substance to his fantasies , putting the poor little tadpoles through an arduous obstacle course to step up the process of survival of the fittest : according to Prodigy Services Co , the mad scientists have created a new class of silicon chip that can be used for analyzing sperm samples and providing a venue for fertilisation ; the technology uses microscopic obstacle courses inside a silicon wafer to weed out unhealthy sperm , and has been used successfully to fertilise a mouse egg ; the chips are etched with a virtual theme park of twisting channels , forests of columns , and other features designed to ensure only the strongest of sperm reach their goal , with some passages so small that only a single cell can pass ; the researchers have not yet applied for approval to test human fertilisation using the chip , but say that could happen within the next 12 months — Brave New World , or the embodiment of virtual sex . |
| 20 | It was ludicrous to be so young and yet a has-been . |