Example sentences of "so [adj] [conj] [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 | Annie was so solid and content , she was like a shiny red apple . |
| 4 | He did not refer to anything so vulgar as payment , of course , because the Gnomes would not expect it . |
| 5 | All this had been done and was being done every day all over Europe by the people whom I had found so pleasant and human ever since I had been shot down . |
| 6 | I think now that I need not have been so prim and stand-offish , but I was afraid to wound him further by giving him what might possibly be taken for false ‘ encouragement ’ . |
| 7 | Gravity is so strong that space is bent round onto itself , making it rather like the surface of the earth . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Even before IRCA , the ties between Mexican workers and the American labour market were so strong that migration was bound to increase . |
| 12 | His desire to have me visit him is so strong that charity will not let me refuse . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She stared up at him , touched to tears by his thoughtfulness , he had come into her life such a short time ago and yet he had been so good to her , so strong and kind . |
| 15 | Her eyes were so wide-set and widely-opened that they consumed half her face in a dazzling pool of greenish-blue radiance . |
| 16 | Water was so scarce that lawn-sprinkling in the suburbs became a criminal offence . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | There was something in Mrs Maugham 's solid air of conscious rectitude that threw a faint shadow of guilt over everyone who approached her , though as often as not people did not know why they were guilty : her disapprovals were so vast and public , her approvals so private and ill-chartered that all immediately cast themselves as goats in the discrimination of her gaze . |
| 19 | ‘ Nothing so little as grace at first , and nothing more glorious afterward : things of greatest perfection are longest in coming to their growth … |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Such an analysis is so extensive that life moves on before the implementation is complete . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It must not be so different that unity is destroyed , or so similar that it gives no feeling of change . |
| 28 | It was not comparable to cycling , in fact it was so different that comparison was a nonsense . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |