Example sentences of "[conj] so [adv] [verb] that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Put into the language of today , the general principle being there stated is simply that , unless the contrary is expressly enacted or so plainly implied that the courts must give effect to it , United Kingdom legislation is applicable only to British subjects or to foreigners who by coming to the United Kingdom , whether for a short or a long time , have made themselves subject to British jurisdiction . |
| 2 | But the prize is so infinitely rewarding and so badly needed that a little hurt surely should be acceptable on the way . |
| 3 | He also believes that a Martian might be able to understand symbols ( and so apparently assumes that the Martian is not going to be at all like any future ( IBM computer ) . |
| 4 | Until then the English had been sailing to places so far from effective Spanish opposition and so thinly populated that the government had not had to provide any help . |
| 5 | Silken and smooth and so deeply loving that the pain was there again … |
| 6 | It was almost as if she was surrounded by a choir , with each person allocated one word , but so well rehearsed that the sentences flowed seamlessly along . |
| 7 | Best of all were the dancers and courtesans — beautiful women like Ad Begum whose speciality was to appear naked at parties , but so cleverly painted that no one noticed : ‘ she decorates her legs with beautiful drawings in the style of pyjamas instead of actually wearing them ; in place of the cuffs she draws flowers and petals in ink exactly as found in the finest cloth of Rum . ’ |
| 8 | After so long thinking that the reason for our kidnap had been bad feeling between Britain and Iran , and knowing that , before the Rushdie affair at least , fences had been mended , it was hard to believe now that it had all been a mirage . |