Example sentences of "[verb] so [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | .. the whole commotion increasing towards 5 p.m. when it became so intense that the captain feared to continue his voyage , and began to shorten sail . |
| 2 | This book is the true story of a decade in which physical and mental torture became so common that the wonder is not that so many were killed or driven to kill themselves but that so many more survived . |
| 3 | At one time , IBM Corp 's shares regularly got so heavy that the company would split them to make them more marketable , a move that usually tends to increase the value of a company in the market : those days are long gone for IBM , and now it 's upstarts like Intel Corp that are able to flex their financial muscles : its board has approved a two-for-one split , and shareholders will vote on the proposal on May 5 . |
| 4 | Recovery will come when the country 's creditors decide that the return on money in the bank has fallen so low that the price of assets has become cheap . |
| 5 | But the raison déacute ; etre behind this concession was not so that the bowlers could swing the ball more : it was to prevent one ball becoming so discoloured that the batsman could not see it easily under the light of day-night games ! |
| 6 | These troops , clearly oblivious to danger , were at first thought to be a Dutch contingent , and had come so close that the Bren gunner could fire only two magazines before grenades knocked out his weapon . |
| 7 | It looks so bad when the number one player in the world is not playing Davis Cup . |
| 8 | Yes , but it seemed so odd that the door was standing open . |
| 9 | The language of the letter itself made her shiver — the ‘ we hereby , being the parents of one Oreste Romagnoli ’ , seemed so important and the ending , though it only gave the date of the document and names of the witnesses , truly portentous . |
| 10 | The temperature had risen so high that the uranium fuel , and the graphite surrounding it , was literally burning . |
| 11 | She makes painting an oil look so easy that the student will automatically start believing he will be capable of the same . |
| 12 | ‘ Not even when we were lying so close that every inch of our skin touched from head to toe ? ’ he challenged her softly . |
| 13 | Will there come a time when that might become so acute that the Minister would be prepared to consider an opt-out as opposed to an opt-in donor system ? |
| 14 | The Reverend Allen 's successor dealt in motor bikes to supplement his pay , but by the 1930s the parish had become so small that a vicarage seemed unnecessary , and it was sold . |
| 15 | The problem has become so widespread that the Department has told health service managers that if there is any doubt about the patient 's eligibility for free care , staff should ask for proof or a refundable deposit . |
| 16 | More important , the cost of legal action to seek redress had become so prohibitive that the consumer had little chance of taking legal action against suppliers . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | worn so long that the smell |
| 19 | The provisions determining exactly whether or not anything has been added have , predictably , already proved so unclear that a Revenue statement of practice ( SP5/92 ) has been issued to resolve some of the more obvious difficulties of interpretation . |
| 20 | Those belonging to Pan American were called Clippers ; they flew the Pacific and the Atlantic and , when storms were violent , they flew so low that the spray from the waves broke over the aircraft . |
| 21 | It was the weather which really decided the issue for , one observer wrote , ‘ It blew a great storm and rained and hailed so hard that the water came out of the soldiers ’ shoes . ’ |
| 22 | I can remember exactly what I was doing and , out of context , my behaviour seems so harmless that the need for secrecy appears quite mysterious . |
| 23 | Now that it no longer seems so shocking that the town should have grown as it has , the newer half is in fact the more attractive , a fine example of what you might call the Thermal-Imperial style , imposing even in its incongruity , up here in the mountains , with its tall bourgeois hotels framed against the surrounding woods and crags . |
| 24 | How come I feel so well when the cancer is so widespread ? |
| 25 | The change of attitude may not have appeared so dramatic since the word ‘ philosophy ’ was more general in its meaning than today , and scientists were called ‘ philosophers ’ or ‘ natural philosophers ’ down to the end of the eighteenth century . |
| 26 | Criteria I 've su criteria I 've suggested narrows the geography pretty precisely but if you felt the need , the local authorities felt the need , for even further protection it does seem to me from my own experience of the Nottinghamshire precedent it is possible if if you felt so inclined and the county was to agree you could narrow it even further by naming one or two erm local authorities such a site erm should be discovered . |
| 27 | It grew so loud that the shed shook , and then it stopped suddenly , leaving a nasty kind of silence that was worse than the noise . |
| 28 | Meanwhile the crowd outside , sensing a scandal , pressed even more closely against the windows of the gallery and grew so thick that the traffic was held up . |
| 29 | I could n't move the handle and yet it looked so easy when the man did it . |
| 30 | Why should her pulse-beat grow light and fast and her mouth become so dry that the impulse to lick her lips was mandatory ? |