Example sentences of "so high [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | LEVELS OF radioactive dust found in a home near the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in Cumbria were so high that the owners felt they had to move their two young sons to safety immediately , the High Court was told yesterday . |
| 2 | PASSIONS run high when the subject of animal rights is raised ; so high that the warring factions can be at odds even over ownership of key metaphors in the argument . |
| 3 | But GPT believes that demand will be so high that the services will be well established by the middle of the next decade . |
| 4 | But there were also two major objections to Skybolt : it was the most expensive of the air mobile options ; and the Americans pointed out that the technological risks were so high that the project might well fail . |
| 5 | The temperature had risen so high that the uranium fuel , and the graphite surrounding it , was literally burning . |
| 6 | Many County Councils are selling off their statutory smallholdings ; on the rest the rents are so high that the tenants are forced into intensive husbandry . |
| 7 | In 1828 , for example , when Coleman was sadly in need of an operating theatre , the various builders ' estimates were so high that the project was abandoned ‘ for the time being ’ . |
| 8 | In an exchange of letters in January , tensions rose so high that the leaders of the two sides are no longer talking to each other . |
| 9 | The cost of maintaining the waterway through the war on reduced Polish trade from the Russian and Austrian partition lands had been so high that the waterway had gone into decline . |
| 10 | But what happens if the traditional route out of the slums is effectively barred , or if unemployment is so high that the underclass is offered no hope ? |
| 11 | Interest rates have halved in the past 10 years to 5.75% , because Singapore 's savings rate is so high that the banks are flush with funds . |
| 12 | They practised in the living room on psalms and Shakespeare , sometimes the pitch rising so high that the Widow Smith feared her much-favoured gentleman paying guest and that charming but coarse Jenkins boy might be arguing . |
| 13 | He knew that although Ulthuan could probably win a war in the bleak northern lands , the cost would be so high that the Elf realms would never recover . |
| 14 | ‘ We have a crisis every year in Lancashire , ’ he claimed , ‘ because expectation is so high that the slightest wobble seems a disaster . |
| 15 | It is important also to note that we are not implying that any major catastrophe will occur should the stress level continue to rise so high that the glass spills over . |
| 16 | But in the case of nitrogen , which can exist as nitrates and nitrites , the surface temperatures are so high that the amount retained in such repositories must be small compared to the amount in the atmosphere . |
| 17 | With inflation the cost of stocking a small farm , quite apart from the value of the land itself , is so high that the tax imposition will make it virtually impossible for a farmer to pass on a flourishing farm to his son . |
| 18 | Trading in dammars , incensewood and rattans sometimes yields financial returns so high that the people abandon cultivation in its favour . |
| 19 | The paradox about all this information explosion or whatever it is called is that the speed of its distribution is so high and the actual receiving of it by a human being is so necessarily slow and far more inefficient than it is achieved by other methods , such as reading printed marks on paper . |
| 20 | In no other religion are the stakes so high and the choice so momentous . ’ |
| 21 | The worst-case forecast also shows curves only here the peaks are not so high and the troughs are much deeper . |