Example sentences of "[be] so [adj] [conj] they [adv] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Sometimes these first impressions are so strong that they stubbornly linger and defy revision even when different signals are being transmitted by subsequent visual behaviours . |
| 2 | These are so faint and they only show up because of the long time exposure . |
| 3 | If this happens they are so premature that they nearly always die . |
| 4 | If two tailless Manx cats are mated , the kittens are so deformed that they nearly always die before birth . |
| 5 | We now impound fluctuations due to the weather in ceteris ceteris paribus , and neglect them provisionally : they are so quick that they speedily obliterate one another , and are therefore not important for problems of this class . |
| 6 | The strands are so fine that they usually can not be detected by cetacean sonar , unlike the older type of multifilament cotton nets . |
| 7 | Admittedly , ethnography presents us with a few ( but very few ) examples of value systems in which inequality of status is viewed as a moral evil ; but these cases are so exceptional that they probably always represent transient states of society . |
| 8 | Nor does anyone else , thought Sara ; why does everyone think they 're so unusual because they never forget a face ? |
| 9 | Still a few sea bass here , though they 're so delicious that they hardly have time to freeze . |
| 10 | An acute effect of alcohol on the brain is that memory functions may be so disrupted that they temporarily fail altogether and this results in a " blankout " , as previously described . |
| 11 | Sometimes their anxiety and an uneasy feeling compel them to move like Arsenicum and , even though it makes the pains worse ( < ) , they can not keep still ; or the pains can be so violent that they also have to move but it still makes the pains worse ( < ) . |
| 12 | It reminds us of the adaptability of old people about which earlier comment has been made and suggests that the rigid divisions between the sexes in tending roles , although still powerful , may not be so impermeable as they sometimes appear . |
| 13 | Often these problems are merely irritating , but for some women the problem can be so severe that they way they live their life can be affected . |
| 14 | In a fast-moving world , family members may be so busy that they hardly see one another individually , let alone together , from one week to the next . |
| 15 | Bankruptcy stared the Nazis in the face , and for a while they were so desperate that they actually considered introducing the zloty as a way of stabilising the currency and restoring calm . |
| 16 | But the directors of the museum at that time were so insensitive that they actually discouraged her generous offer . |
| 17 | The Puritan missionaries thought the heathens did n't deserve to exist and the heathens were so compliant that they duly dwindled towards extinction . |
| 18 | It is dusk by the time the wild elephants reach the funnel and now the noise of the beaters behind them is so loud that they simply keep going — into the khedda . |
| 19 | The feasting , fun and laughter continue well into the evening , by which time just about everyone is so full that they often prefer something lighter to eat ! |
| 20 | Unfortunately senior executives often either consider that no-one less senior than themselves can be trusted with knowledge of a meeting , or that the meeting is so important that they alone are significant enough to occupy the chair . |
| 21 | It 's so annoying when they just come up to your window whether you want it cleaned or not they just clean it . |
| 22 | I 've never come across anyone who was so desperate that they really needed the things they took . |
| 23 | B'ham West Branch 's recent ‘ Home Birth ’ study day was so over-subscribed that they now have an account of the day available from , , price £1 . |
| 24 | But the serrated gratings must have sufficiently broken the crust of the brick-broken mutilated plastimetal that covers a great deal of the world that is an eyeball , and little light yellow-green stubs poked through , cos the Sun was still up there , way up there , even though someone had devised a new kind of force of matter transference and was attempting to move the Sun to his laboratory-country where it would be used to grow humlants — in which the old human brain was to be stretched in durable fibrosity and connected inextricably to root and flower , making rings of energy that took their partners for a whaltz or a flexitrot and multiplied their species by being fried on a plasetal plate whose temperature was so great that they never actually touched it but skimmed over , coming off the other side as a more-than-when-they-started . |