Example sentences of "be [vb pp] so [adv] that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 " . |
| 5 | Inn many cases this is what they get , However this is not consolation to the user who , having been misinformed by an out of date roadside timetable , spends , say , fifteen minutes at a windswept bus stop , in pouring rain , awaiting a bus that is less than clean , being driven so badly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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |