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 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 . ’ |
| 11 | Its tasty home-cooking has become so popular that ordinary diners are squeezing the fishermen out . |
| 12 | The National Schizophrenia Fellowship has become so concerned that the severely mentally ill are being neglected that they are arguing against hospital closures . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It 's really sad that integrity has sunk so low that any magazine has to print stuff that is n't really true . |
| 15 | Where a person does become so obsessional that this never happens , there is often some other problem . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The world has become so inter-dependent that we now see IBM Japan exporting American computers built in Japan to the EC . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The fervour has become so great that some now argue for a tightening of the Obscene Publications Act . |
| 25 | Family planning Salvadorean fashion has become so notorious as to be classified as a human rights issue . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | This soon led to criticism of the excessive power of the Chancellor : ‘ The Chancellor 's position has become so strong that his opponents and supporters alike complain about his authoritarian style of leadership [ writing about Adenauer ] … |
| 28 | There the ego has become so fragmented and is so er erm sick as it were that the id has overwhelmed it and the reality sense is lost . |
| 29 | The problem has become so widespread that the Department has told health service managers that if there is any doubt about the patient 's eligibility for free care , staff should ask for proof or a refundable deposit . |
| 30 | But pace bowlers Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis said in a statement : ‘ We are amazed that a fellow professional has stooped so low as to make such unfounded comments . |