Example sentences of "be so hard that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although royal icing should be firm , it should not be so hard that it can not be cut with a knife . |
| 2 | Although some skins claimed that they were so hard that they did not need to use weapons , and there was no standard personal armament like the cut-throat razors of the teds or the bicycle chains of the grebos , a variety of weapons were used at football matches and other fights . |
| 3 | Many were so hard that they seemed to be made of solid wood while others shattered like eggshells , but were virtually empty . |
| 4 | This Charnwood Forest granite is so hard that there was no known way of dressing it well enough for building purposes until the nineteenth century , but it was used for millstones and supplied road metal and kerbstones to London and other parts of England . |
| 5 | On one of the trials , Ray placed a popsock over the end of a pipe delivering water that had been through an Eradicator and , in 72 hours , collected a golf ball-sized piece of limescale from the mesh … in East Anglia , the water is so hard that it will give a kettle an internal fur coat in no time , and here was the proof . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , I was hoping to do some digging , ’ said the Prince , ‘ but it 's so hard that I ca n't get the spade in . |
| 7 | ‘ But the ground 's so hard that I ca n't get the spade in . |
| 8 | But I knocked you to the floor , and the blow was so hard that it made my hand throb for hours afterwards . |
| 9 | The frost was so hard that everything went steel grey — the ground , the water and the sky . |
| 10 | After a year it was so hard that Chola and Mina had to hack it out with adzes . |
| 11 | The force of the impact was so hard that both prisoners broke their arm . |
| 12 | The food was so hard that even the small denizens of the forest had left it alone . |