Example sentences of "so highly [vb pp] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An answer comes from X-ray observations by the Ginga satellite of iron atoms in the bulge that are so highly ionized that they retain only two electrons . |
| 2 | In Japan ‘ Grand Champions ’ are so highly prized that they are officially made wards of court , and can not be exported from the country . |
| 3 | The features of the face are sometimes treated in the same simplified way , or else are so highly stylized that they become simply decorative signs . |
| 4 | Polo parks ( one was constructed recently at Châteaux Giscours ) , marble bottling halls ( Michel Delon 's at Léoville-Lascases is so highly polished that workers have been issued with special boots ) , Versailles-style formal gardens with sunken cellars provide the spectacular icing on the cake of wealth accumulated by the leading châteaux over the last decade by the simple expedient of charging much more for their wines than it costs to make them . |
| 5 | I know of one company where everyone became so highly motivated that most of them left , because they now found frustrating a pace which they had found acceptable before . |
| 6 | These studies defined a pathway that is at the heart of growth control in higher eukaryotic organisms , one which is so highly conserved that its components are functionally interchangeable between mammals , flies and worms . |
| 7 | The high frequency vibrations were so highly favoured that an infinite amount of energy would be present in them . |
| 8 | Barson 's powers of tackling and leadership were so highly regarded that United had paid £5,000 — a huge fee at the time , especially for a defender — for his transfer from Aston Villa in 1922 . |
| 9 | Formerly esquire of the body to Henry the Sixth , Vaughan had become treasurer of the chamber to Edward the Fourth , by whom he was so highly regarded that in 1471 he had been appointed chamberlain to the then one-year-old Prince Edward . |
| 10 | Two niggling reservations lingered about Pinza as a Derby horse : his physique — a big horse , he might not be nimble enough down Tattenham Hill — and his temperament , for he was so highly strung that he was invariably ridden by a stable lad when led around the paddock , and the drawn-out preliminaries of the Derby might cause him to boil over . |
| 11 | The reason for this is that the system is so highly structured that there is no question of uncertainty and it would therefore be impossible to impair the efficiency of it . |
| 12 | Chomsky has claimed that the principles underlying the structure of language are so specific and so highly articulated that they must be regarded as being biologically determined ; that is , as constituting part of what we call " human nature " and as being genetically transmitted from parents to children . |
| 13 | Poets were so highly esteemed that it was said that a Delhi-wallah visiting a friend in another part of India would always take with him as a present not jewels or hookahs or fine weapons but a few of Mir Taqi Mir 's new verses copied on to a single sheet of paper . |