Example sentences of "is so [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your Mum 's fucking fanny is so wrinkly the crabs have got walking sticks . |
| 2 | We say that he has done enough damage in bringing about the birth of this child , in giving him a father who does not know he is his father , a mother who is so ice-cold a scientist that she willingly abandons her own child to the researcher in the laboratory , where he will inevitably be regarded in the same light as any other laboratory animal . |
| 3 | Because travelling at walking pace is so rare an experience for car drivers , the Woonerf must be well designed to ensure that the need for low speeds is made very clear . |
| 4 | Nature is so complete a system . |
| 5 | This is so broad a definition that it could include almost any building , structure , or site of archaeological interest made or occupied by man at any time . |
| 6 | Of all the science fiction programmes screened on British Television none is so close an ancestor to Doctor Who as Pathfinders . |
| 7 | Mark Steyn , whose confidence in his wit is so great no amount of evidence to the contrary seems ever likely to shake it , took us on a tour of the National Humour Archive , complete with the Dawson Bequest , and a person at work on the wider socio-economic effects of Essex Girl jokes . |
| 8 | The political ambitions of the CLB can be deduced from its interpretation of the Edwardian crisis : ‘ At so critical a period in British history as the present , when there is so great and unfortunate a tendency to slackness , ease , and carelessness as to religion , morals , and work , when there is so great a craving for pleasure 's sake , when so serious a social problem as the great army of the unfit and unemployed has become a national scandal and a public danger ’ , it was necessary to provide men of the future with ‘ that spirit of self-denial , self-control and definiteness of righteous purpose ’ which had put Britain in the lead among nations . |
| 9 | It is so great an advance on any other big regional plan that one must be enthusiastic about its general pattern ’ ( Hughes , 1971 , pp. 71–2 ) . |
| 10 | That would have reduced exposure ; but it is so small a step from cutting the level to removing it altogether that perhaps that is now a wiser move given the shift in public opinion . |
| 11 | with alcohol I mean alcohol is so much a part of the establishment of Oxford . |
| 12 | In the drawing there is so wide a divergence between the upward curve of the optimist and the downward curve of the pessimist that most situations are covered . |
| 13 | It is easy to compile a list of books for a national curriculum which are essential reading for 16 year olds , and which is so long no average 16 year old will have time to read them all . |
| 14 | Even the surreal speech that is so distinctive a feature of Orton 's comedies was based in part on the systematic collection of real-life instances ( Lahr 1980 ) . |
| 15 | Frames can be set to repeat on every page , with allowances for left and right pages , and this is one of the reasons why Ventura is so good a long regular documents . |
| 16 | The idea was that since repetition is so good the pathways across the cortex ( hence trans cortical ) from the brain regions for perceiving speech to the brain regions for producing speech are intact . |
| 17 | This is why fiction , including children 's fiction , is so irreplaceable a form of human knowledge . |
| 18 | One of the reasons why owl pellet analysis is so useful a tool for ecologists is the good preservation and lack of breakage of most of the bones . |
| 19 | Because this is so crucial a matter for consideration in RE , I discuss this example in some detail . |
| 20 | Suffering is so prominent a part of the Gospel that it has been described as a Passion story with an introduction . |
| 21 | But because it is so powerful a fish , such a doughty fighter and has to be dragged up from such depths , Latimeria very seldom reaches the shore alive . |
| 22 | Communication is so complex an interaction of mind , language , and the physical world that it can be disconcerting to try to deal with it all at once . |
| 23 | Yet this is no reason for ignoring what , taken as a whole process , is so general a social fact . |
| 24 | As to honest Partridge , he meant no wrong , for he is so bold a mountaineer , he can go anywhere that a sheep can ; and I dare say thinks every person can do the same . ’ |
| 25 | This is so fundamental a point that I will develop this in some detail . |
| 26 | Now sexism is so fundamental an evil that it becomes very difficult for anyone who has grasped this to envisage that God could be said to have been involved with human history . |
| 27 | The shortage of Pentiums is so bad the industry has reportedly taken to what some people call ‘ tea-bagging , ’ moving their precious chip supply from system to system to prove to customers their box works , then quickly back to the treasure vault . |
| 28 | The situation is so bad the Home Office has started a campaign to combat car theft … using TV ads . |
| 29 | a great waste ground of four miles broad and more … and the side thereof that lieth towards England is the common pasture of the uttermost inhabited towns of England , and the side thereof towards Scotland is so wet a moss or marshy ground that it will neither bear corn nor serve for the pasture of any cattle , also their way scarcely any man pass over it . |
| 30 | McClellan has written that ‘ the knowledge of books is so important a requirement in each factor of book provision that an organisation of staff based on bibliography seems self-evident ’ . |