Example sentences of "so closely [vb pp] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no precise meaning to ‘ double ’ with regard to petal number , and the word is taken to mean a number of petals so closely packed that until the bloom fully opens and then ‘ blows ’ , it is virtually impossible to see the anthers and other sexual parts of the flower — they are quite hidden . |
| 2 | This is not one of the five Sisters , but is so closely related that its inclusion makes sense . |
| 3 | They are so closely related that a provisional view on one may well be displaced as the result of conclusions reached on another . |
| 4 | The three species of bee seem so closely related that they must have evolved from a single carrion-eating ancestor . |
| 5 | He 'd seen Nancy and Frank embracing in the back of the car , so closely entwined that it had been impossible to guess what else they were doing . |
| 6 | Beatty 's aim was to keep Hipper so closely engaged that the Germans could not break off the action until Jellicoe arrived ; Hipper 's task was to lure Beatty to destruction at the hands of Scheer . |
| 7 | Interpreting the music well takes hours of listening to discover its subtleties of phrasing , rhythm and mood ; then more time should be spent on experimentation until the music and movement are so closely connected that the movement does n't work without its music . |
| 8 | Typically there is a pair of ganglia in each segment of the body , but the members of a pair are usually so closely united that they appear as a single ganglion , the commissure being no longer evident externally . |
| 9 | It is precisely because our bodies and fantasies are so closely linked that feeling you do n't conform to the current ‘ skinny ’ aesthetic can have such detrimental effects on the way you feel about your body and concomittantly , yourself . |
| 10 | Both class relations and gender relations , while they exist within their own histories , can nevertheless be so closely interwoven that it is theoretically very difficult to draw them apart within specific historic conjunctures . |
| 11 | For , in reality , the research and teaching activities are so closely interwoven that they are inseparable . |
| 12 | Implementation of the plan and evaluation are so closely intertwined that the four-section cycle is redrawn to highlight the regular to-and-fro between the first ( ‘ sustain commitment ’ ) and the second ( ‘ check progress ’ ) which leads to ‘ overcome problems ’ and then ‘ check successes ’ . |
| 13 | But the great hikes we undertake on our holidays , usually in the Highlands of Scotland , or some other bleak , wet , cold hill country that I got to know in the days when I used to go climbing by myself ( and there 's another subject we might discuss ! ) , habitually entail a complex of discomfort , exhaustion , irritation , confusion , sheer misery and intense exhilaration so closely intertwined that I shall have to leave them to be considered on another occasion . |
| 14 | Large molecules , dimers and clusters have large moments of inertia , and consequently their rotational energy levels are so closely spaced that high-resolution spectroscopy is defeated . |