Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [verb] so [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two-week course has become so popular that there is a six-month waiting list . |
| 2 | The star goes on becoming smaller and smaller , denser and denser , until its gravitational pull has become so enormous that not even light can escape from it . |
| 3 | Cheltenham 's owners club has proved so popular and so successful thanks to Fuzzy Logic that a second horse is being bought and put into training with the David Nicholson stables … |
| 4 | In local authority work today committee work has become so important that a great measure of power is given to committees . |
| 5 | Since the new constitution was enacted in 1937 , the prohibition on divorce has become so strict that couples who have been granted a nullity decree by Roman catholic canonical tribunals have found that they may still not be recognized as single by the state , and are thus unable to remarry in the Republic . |
| 6 | The law has become so complex that it can not be expected that the solicitor will be proficient in everything , and the trend is towards the large firm with specialised partners . |
| 7 | A SCHEME to conserve hundreds of ancient churchyards in villages in the York Diocese has proved so successful that it is now being extended . |
| 8 | By the 1870s the machine has become so sophisticated that it needs more educated people to run it , to learn new techniques of maintenance and improvement , and to keep up its momentum . |
| 9 | The state apparatus has become so corrupt and exploitative that the common man sees it as an enemy . |
| 10 | The focus has narrowed so much that all background has become murky . |
| 11 | The process has become so refined that we even had a section called ‘ Oenology ’ , though it must be admitted that this eventually had to be re-named to ‘ Study of Wine . ’ |
| 12 | Its tasty home-cooking has become so popular that ordinary diners are squeezing the fishermen out . |
| 13 | The National Schizophrenia Fellowship has become so concerned that the severely mentally ill are being neglected that they are arguing against hospital closures . |
| 14 | The art has become so refined that at state and country fairs , hog-calling contests are held , with the winner being the farmer who summons a pig from the greatest distance . |
| 15 | It 's really sad that integrity has sunk so low that any magazine has to print stuff that is n't really true . |
| 16 | Where a person does become so obsessional that this never happens , there is often some other problem . |
| 17 | Its short opera season has proved so popular that most of the tickets are now taken up by sponsors — including Glassdrumman on behalf of its guests . |
| 18 | Years of trial work resulted in the discovery that organo- mercury seed treatments would control these seed-borne diseases , and from the 1940's their use has become so universal that such devastating diseases have never been witnessed by a generation or two of farmers . |
| 19 | While there are countless instances of cheerful competence in schools , there are many others where morale has dropped so low that even these two minimum conditions can not be met . |
| 20 | our society has become so complicated and our representative system of government so remote to many fellow citizens , that there has to be an alternative way of expressing dissent other than the constitutional way of doing it through representative government . |
| 21 | In contrast to the United States , executive control of the House of Commons via party loyalty has become so thorough that such committees can operate only within a context defined by the executive . |
| 22 | My daughter has changed so much since I left . |
| 23 | A pilot project to bring countryside recreation information into the town centre has proved so successful that it is set to become a permanent feature in Northampton . |
| 24 | The world has become so inter-dependent that we now see IBM Japan exporting American computers built in Japan to the EC . |
| 25 | Designed in 1954 and built until 1968 , the model has remained so popular that London Transport is currently refurbishing 500 of them , at a cost of £1m . |
| 26 | The argument that public sector employment has expanded so much that it has absorbed too much labour and it has thus had an adverse effect on the national economy will be examined in the next chapter . |
| 27 | The fervour has become so great that some now argue for a tightening of the Obscene Publications Act . |
| 28 | Parallel computing has matured so much that users and manufacturers are beginning to discuss standardisation . |
| 29 | Family planning Salvadorean fashion has become so notorious as to be classified as a human rights issue . |
| 30 | 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 . |