Example sentences of "be [verb] so [adv] that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The extremities of the cloud are rotating so fast that the cloud would disperse if it were not held together by some force of gravity . |
| 2 | Divided plants will take hold of the soil and grow new roots more quickly if they are replanted so quickly that the plant hardly knows it has been out of the ground . |
| 3 | The exclusion of the courts It has been argued so far that the methods of control and accountability introduced by the 1985 Act leave much to be desired . |
| 4 | Although she had been seen at the school less frequently over the past few years , rehearsals and contracts were organized so smoothly that the dancers had not noticed her gradual disappearance . |
| 5 | The equity partners should perhaps guard against any indemnity being drawn so widely that a salaried partner is relieved from the consequences of such " individualism " . |
| 6 | Their numbers were growing so quickly that the club was formed . |
| 7 | Not only did I draw a blank about the pictures , but political events were moving so fast that the book I had begun to write had ceased , after the completion of the amount of text Faber 's required , to be the one that needed to he written . |
| 8 | Inn many cases this is what they get , However this is not consolation to the user who , having been misinformed by an out of date roadside timetable , spends , say , fifteen minutes at a windswept bus stop , in pouring rain , awaiting a bus that is less than clean , being driven so badly that the ride is uncomfortable by a brusque and unhelpful driver . ’ |
| 9 | In the second kind of solution , the universe is expanding so rapidly that the gravitational attraction can never stop it , though it does slow it down a bit . |
| 10 | This last was uttered so sharply that the dog at once lay down , uttering a whimper as he rested his head on his paws , dark eyes longingly fixed on the newcomer . |
| 11 | He was tumbling so fast that the stars became blurred circles of light around him . |
| 12 | By three-thirty it was raining so pitilessly that the sky had turned black and all the street lights were on . |
| 13 | The Spanish Armada was defeated so decisively that the English often reckoned that their command of the sea began then , although it was never secure until the end of the seventeenth century . |
| 14 | She was trembling so violently that the bed shook . |
| 15 | Her head was throbbing so vilely that the effort was too much . |
| 16 | In June 1977 , six months before Fisher 's report was published , the tide of opinion was running so strongly that the Prime Minister announced the appointment of a Royal Commission on Criminal Procedure . |
| 17 | Carolyn could see that she had her right hand clasped around the fingers of her left , and was squeezing so tightly that the finger ends were white and bloodless . |
| 18 | Eventually it was standing so well that the twins were able to play teasing games with it , pushing and pulling and slapping its sides , so sometimes it fell and sometimes it lurched from side to side and recovered . |
| 19 | Nicholas was standing so still that the thick painted glass struck motionless light from his chain , and his face was glazed like a jug with mixed colours . |