Example sentences of "[verb] so [adv] [that] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent years , it has been argued that the position and powers of the Prime Minister have altered so considerably that it makes sense to talk about the rise of prime ministerial government and the transformation of the Cabinet into yet another " dignified " part of the constitution . |
| 2 | The blue component of incoming solar radiation is scattered so severely that it appears to our eyes to be coming from the entire sky . |
| 3 | Before it was halfway through its arc Hrun 's right hand moved so fast that it appeared to travel between two points in space without at any time occupying the intervening air . |
| 4 | A word or phrase used so often that it becomes a slogan . |
| 5 | It was all done so genteelly that it set McAllister 's teeth on edge . |
| 6 | The edition for 1605 , no longer extant , was said to have foretold the Gunpowder Plot so accurately that it brought him under suspicion of complicity . |
| 7 | The Scottish Seamen 's Union , originally claimed to have 1,000 members , lost support so rapidly that it survived for no more than two months . |
| 8 | But I was trembling so badly that it shook the knife out of my skin , and I could move again . |
| 9 | This , of course , happens so quickly that it appears that the letters are displayed as a direct mechanical response to the keypress . |
| 10 | Its population was expanding so fast that it seemed impossible that food production could keep pace with it . |
| 11 | It is , of course , impossible to foresee the future , but the effective demise of the Catholic Church has been prophesied so often that it seems wiser to conclude that the vast movement of transformation begun by Vatican II will not be easily ended either internally or externally . |
| 12 | Albert had spoken so calmly that it made her calm too . |
| 13 | Third at the last fence , he passed Royal Mail and with just over a furlong to go was finishing so strongly that it looked as if he must catch Aldaniti . |
| 14 | It was very quiet in the kitchen except for the clock in the corner that ticked so loudly that it sounded as if it would burst out of its case . |
| 15 | Standing up to straighten his back , he would take as many as half a dozen buds , popping them all into his mouth , then down he 'd go , snick , snick , bud in , and on to the next — he went so fast that it took two assistants following behind and tying in to keep up with him ! |
| 16 | He hit a huge drive which rolled so far that it ended in deep rough . |
| 17 | Steve laughed so unnaturally that it caused Ruth to widen her eyes at him with surprise . |
| 18 | The compression of the state pension down to income support levels has gone so far that it has superseded the income support level , so that every pensioner , as of right , should be on income support . |
| 19 | The whirligig sometimes moves so fast that it overtakes its own ripples , and then any slight slope in the surface alerts it to an obstacle . |
| 20 | It appeared so unexpectedly that it seemed to leap out of the ground . |
| 21 | In January 1949 the British cabinet ruled that co-operation with Europe should not be taken so far that it compromised Britain 's ability to survive as an independent state . |
| 22 | He spoke so casually that it took Bernice five seconds to realize the implications of what he had said and another five to fear it . |
| 23 | It looked very attractive until it was washed , when it stretched so appallingly that it reached to her knees ! |
| 24 | The fly on top is on the contrary quite agitated , jerking tremendously , then convulsively , putting out its left foreleg to whip , or maybe to stroke some sort of reaction out of the fly beneath , which , however , remains so still that it seems dead . |
| 25 | In captivity , a good memory and fear will destroy the horse if it is handled so badly that it becomes permanently anxious . |
| 26 | A conservative estimate is that , in the absence of natural selection , DNA replicates so accurately that it takes five million replication generations to miscopy I per cent of the characters . |
| 27 | The responsibility had lain so heavily that it took some time to readjust . |
| 28 | The right hon. Member for Manchester , Gorton ( Mr. Kaufman ) and his team are always ingenious in defending whatever the policy of the moment is ; it is just that that policy is changed so often that it leaves a little bit of a question mark over whether they have any plan or direction at all . |