Example sentences of "so [adj] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | His hair was dark brown , and his face so asymmetrical that a reflection of it in a piece of broken mirror on the wall was unrecognizable . |
| 32 | Sometimes the scar tissue is so thick that a couple never truly manage intimacy again . |
| 33 | Warranties ‘ are other obligations which , though they must be performed , are not so vital that a failure to perform them goes to the substance of the contract . ’ |
| 34 | She/he was ever so nice but a lot of the staff and nursing staff were right bastards to him . |
| 35 | The resemblance is so close that a human can easily mistake the new song for the sound of a trimphone . |
| 36 | So remote that a bargepole is more use to a traveller than a British Rail season ticket when the London train breaks down . |
| 37 | The court will look to its own law to determine whether there has been good service , sufficient in a common law system to found jurisdiction ; the same law will identify the steps required to set running the time which must elapse before a default judgment can be entered ; and the same law will , in some countries , apply to determine whether service was so defective that a default judgment must be set aside . |
| 38 | The yacht was so new that a price has yet to be established . |
| 39 | In order to support this position , one has to accept : ( i ) that the intention — recklessness distinction is the most significant dividing line for serious injuries , more relevant than factors such as premeditation or provocation ; ( ii ) that this is a workable distinction for the courts , especially in impulsive crimes , where the definition of intention may be fulfilled by a momentary realization of what is happening ; ( iii ) that it is so significant that a difference in maximum penalties between life imprisonment and five years ' imprisonment is appropriate ; and ( iv ) that there is not a strong case for phrasing the offences in terms of endangerment rather than of causing physical harm . |
| 40 | Indeed , the machine is so massive that a tokamak reactor would need something like 17 times as much material to produce the same power output as a pressurised-water reactor . |