Example sentences of "so [adj] that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | But all couples can enhance their own relationships , making their marriages so solid that infidelity is unlikely to occur . |
2 | High fidelity : ‘ Couples can enhance their relationships , making their marriages so solid that infidelity is unlikely to occur ’ |
3 | Gravity is so strong that space is bent round onto itself , making it rather like the surface of the earth . |
4 | What really happens during the very early or late stages of the universe , when gravitational fields are so strong that quantum effects can not be ignored ? |
5 | However , what the singularity theorems really indicate is that the gravitational field becomes so strong that quantum gravitational effects become important : classical theory is no longer a good description of the universe . |
6 | But , as indicated above , the real importance of the singularity theorems was that they showed that the gravitational field must become so strong that quantum gravitational effects could not be ignored . |
7 | Even before IRCA , the ties between Mexican workers and the American labour market were so strong that migration was bound to increase . |
8 | His desire to have me visit him is so strong that charity will not let me refuse . |
9 | The gravitational field of the singularity would be so strong that light could not escape from the region around it but would be dragged back by the gravitational field . |
10 | Water was so scarce that lawn-sprinkling in the suburbs became a criminal offence . |
11 | Now , the coal crisis is so acute that steam locos on the mountain could become just a memory unless the present oil firing experiments at Snowdon are a success . |
12 | One justification for this is that gravity is so weak that quantum gravitational effects would be large only at particle energies way beyond those in any particle accelerator . |
13 | Such an analysis is so extensive that life moves on before the implementation is complete . |
14 | It should be damp enough to hold together when squeezed in the hand , but not so wet that water still runs out through the fingers . |
15 | It 's been so wet that seed company 's say there wo n't be enough high quality grain to provide next year 's seed . |
16 | In reality , few farmers wear complete protection at the tank , and the operation is so messy that liquid is bound to get on the smallest area of exposed skin . |
17 | More mundanely , it was also because the supply of pictures and information from the frontline was so meagre that tv companies had precious little material with which to fill their programmes . |
18 | Rarely has it been so clear that freedom is indivisible , and that attacks on one set of civil liberties are likely to be a part of a projected destruction of all such freedoms . |
19 | It must not be so different that unity is destroyed , or so similar that it gives no feeling of change . |
20 | It was not comparable to cycling , in fact it was so different that comparison was a nonsense . |
21 | This turned out to be so popular that production was taken over by the English parent company , leaving the colonial off-shoot to resume its original project . |
22 | The O'Hooligan character , with his outsized nose , was so popular that iron casts used be made of him and would turn up occasionally as Belfast doorstops . |
23 | Will he encourage his right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer to understand that the company car is not a tax-avoidance weapon but an essential tool of British industry and that , if we are to have a strong home-based industry , we do not need taxes so high that Jaguar and Rolls-Royce lose money ? |
24 | Wrecked cars and land raiders smouldered along the boulevard under a leaden ceiling so high that utility tubes and power cables seemed to be but a delicate tracery . |
25 | Traditional Keynesian analysis required government to intervene in the economy to affect the total level of demand for goods and services , and to ensure that this level was high enough to be consistent with full employment and not so high that inflation was generated or a balance of payments crisis precipitated . |
26 | In most cases the officials of the unions involved and the police arrange matters amicably , but there are notorious cases where feelings of injustice and unfairness run so high that violence is in attendance . |
27 | But the level of social welfare was so high that poverty was unthinkable . |
28 | The cost of developing new generations of chip technology are so high that collaboration is increasingly the order of the day , and Advanced Micro Devices Inc and Hewlett-Packard Co have decided to join forces on the development of logic process technology to enable the production of microprocessors with 5m to 10m transistors on a single chip by 1995 . |
29 | Allegra 's death is only one of the numerous and heart-rending deaths of young children in this book — which should dispose of the comforting myth that mothers suffered less acutely when child mortality was so high that death could be no surprise . |
30 | The restriction on supplies from the Middle East brought on by the clash with the Egyptian government of Abdel Nasser was so serious that petrol rationing had to be introduced . |