Example sentences of "so badly [vb pp] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next day in a further raid on this airfield another Beaufighter was to be slightly damaged , as was a Maryland , while a Wellington and a Blenheim were so badly hit that they had to be written off . |
| 2 | Linda Hardy , ( 43 ) — who was so badly beaten that police initially thought she had been shot — was this morning said to be ‘ critical but stable ’ in London 's Royal Free Hospital , which has a neurosurgical unit specialising in treating severe head injuries . |
| 3 | ‘ And the poor thing so badly trained that it can not be brought into a Christian household . ’ |
| 4 | According to one or two bold spirits who had succeeded in getting into it , it was so badly constructed that when they jumped up and down on the floor the entire building trembled . |
| 5 | Since this subject is so important , it is a pity the book is so badly constructed that it lacks authority . |
| 6 | A shop manager who was beaten up and threatened with having his ears cut off is so badly traumatised that he 's still been unable to describe his ordeal to police . |
| 7 | Car and bodies had been so badly charred that it was some time before they could be identified . |
| 8 | It is important to differentiate between timbers which have been so badly eaten that their strength has been reduced , necessitating replacement , and those which , though damaged , still contain enough sound wood to continue their original jobs . |
| 9 | The Government were part of the process of blocking the directive until it was so badly mauled that it is now very different from the one that we first saw and debated in the House a month ago . |
| 10 | I then slightly rocked the chair and my fingers were so badly crushed that , a few weeks later , my blackened finger nails fell out . |
| 11 | ‘ The car was so badly crushed that I thought about asking the boss if he wanted it posting back . ’ |
| 12 | The Guardian 's cartoonist showed one health official saying to another : ‘ These regional days of action are so badly organized that Len Murray has to ring up Norman Fowler to ask where they are being held . ’ |
| 13 | Paddy quickly took command , but with most of their gear missing and two men so badly injured that they had to be left behind , there was nothing for it but to try to make the rendezvous with the LRDG . |
| 14 | Jack 's opportunity to break into the limelight came when Fred Dawes was so badly injured that he could not play again : Jack 's debut was as demanding as any Palace debut could be — at Millwall ! |
| 15 | He had been so badly injured that he was moved to the prison hospital , where I visited him every day . |
| 16 | She was so badly injured that she was able only to tell them her name . |
| 17 | One was still alive , but so badly injured that it hads to be destroyed . |
| 18 | Myers believes that soil erosion is already a problem and that at least 90 000 km 2 of land are so badly affected that they can no longer sustain crop production . |
| 19 | But I have had patients who were so badly affected that they could not travel in any enclosed vehicle — car , bus or train — had to leave the bathroom door open while they bathed , could not enter a cinema , theatre or even a small local shop . |
| 20 | Widely commended for its environmental stance in Europe , the same standards have not been applied in the company 's operations in Ecuador , where roads were driven into virgin forests , rivers were so badly polluted that they caught fire , fish were dynamited and local people forced off their lands . |
| 21 | The immediate application of this engine was in pumping water out of mine workings , which had often become so badly flooded that it was impossible for them to be worked , and pumps driven by waterwheels were unequal to the huge drainage problems . |
| 22 | ‘ The breakfast was so badly cooked that the girls could n't possibly eat it , so they were hungry . ’ |
| 23 | That is happening simply because the prison service has been so badly mismanaged that the staff are disaffected . |
| 24 | HISTORICAL monuments are so badly signposted that many visitors are unaware of their existence , the Scottish Tourist Board 's chief executive , Tom Band , told a tourism conference yesterday , writes Alison Daniels . |
| 25 | But the explosive charge was too large and the chapel was so badly damaged that it had to be pulled down . |
| 26 | Most of them were so badly damaged that they sank or were forced to withdraw as shell splinters cut their steering lines and tracer set fire to fuel tanks , but they gave a good account of themselves because the port was defended by well-sited , quick-firing guns used for anti-aircraft or anti-ship fire . |
| 27 | Britain ended the war with 475,000 houses either destroyed , or so badly damaged that they were made permanently uninhabitable . |
| 28 | No student should be penalised for misspellings unless a word is so badly spelt that it can not be understood . |
| 29 | She was so badly tortured that the authorities had to send her to hospital . |
| 30 | But there are other causes of bad conditions as well as overcrowding : many prisons are old and decaying , and the newer prisons have often turned out to be so badly designed that they are not a noticeable improvement . |