Example sentences of "[be] so [adv] [vb pp] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Guardian 's cartoonist showed one health official saying to another : ‘ These regional days of action are so badly organized that Len Murray has to ring up Norman Fowler to ask where they are being held . ’ |
| 2 | A survey has found that some hospitals are so badly designed that doctors spend four hours of every working day just walking from one ward to another . |
| 3 | It should be possible to obtain a compromise which is effective in the legislation and which says , in effect , ’ There will be some crossings which are so rarely used that people are not inconvenienced by their closure . ’ |
| 4 | Ground-nests are so well concealed that predators can easily overlook them even when they are only a few feet away . |
| 5 | Within the central parsec , stars play a more direct role because they are so tightly packed that collisions between them , including tidal disruption , may be sufficiently common to inject significant quantities of gas into the interstellar medium . |
| 6 | Hedgerows existed in Saxon times and by the time Domesday was commissioned in 1086 the boundaries of parishes were so firmly fixed that William 's Norman officials were able to calculate within close limits , the exact area of thousands of settlements and their capacity to contribute to the royal exchequer ! |
| 7 | It is so well known that women who smoke risk giving birth to underweight babies that the labels on cigarette packets in America caution that ‘ smoking may complicate pregnancy . ’ |
| 8 | Polo parks ( one was constructed recently at Châteaux Giscours ) , marble bottling halls ( Michel Delon 's at Léoville-Lascases is so highly polished that workers have been issued with special boots ) , Versailles-style formal gardens with sunken cellars provide the spectacular icing on the cake of wealth accumulated by the leading châteaux over the last decade by the simple expedient of charging much more for their wines than it costs to make them . |
| 9 | Linda Hardy , ( 43 ) — who was so badly beaten that police initially thought she had been shot — was this morning said to be ‘ critical but stable ’ in London 's Royal Free Hospital , which has a neurosurgical unit specialising in treating severe head injuries . |
| 10 | She was so badly burned that surgeons had to amputate her left hand . |
| 11 | It was so skilfully effected that Giles and Cavell were metres away before Maria realised what was happening . |
| 12 | She was so far gone that Joey had to help her walk across the field to where he had parked . |