Example sentences of "so [adj] that [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so , it took all his self-control not to lose his temper with Madge Grimsilk , for Therese , in the dark sapphire Rosa Ponselle gown , studded all over with flashing blue stones and with the huge peacock train spreading out behind her , was outstanding , so outstanding that the rest of the cast , pleased with their own designs but quick to recognize a ‘ star ’ outfit , burst into a little patter of applause . |
| 2 | Richard Dorment of the Daily Telegraph said : ‘ What a pity a dealer did not take him aside and tell him the work he proposed to exhibit was unexhibitable … a visual boredom so total that no amount of metaphor or allusion can give it the kiss of life ’ . |
| 3 | Recovery will come when the country 's creditors decide that the return on money in the bank has fallen so low that the price of assets has become cheap . |
| 4 | However , the number of people who return to education once they have left school or college is so low that the age of finishing full-time education is often used as a simple indicator . |
| 5 | And when the rain stops , the beavers may have to build them up again to prevent the level of the lake from falling so low that the entrance to the lodge is exposed . |
| 6 | Those belonging to Pan American were called Clippers ; they flew the Pacific and the Atlantic and , when storms were violent , they flew so low that the spray from the waves broke over the aircraft . |
| 7 | Recall that it exists where the interest rate is so low that the demand for money becomes perfectly interest-elastic . |
| 8 | As many as one in five of the population attends an accident and emergency unit every year , yet staff shortages are so acute that a quarter of the 239 units in England and Wales do not have a trained consultant in charge . |
| 9 | The apparent ascendancy of nuclear-deterrence thinking over laws-of-war thinking has been so complete that the idea of deterrence has come to be associated in the public mind almost exclusively with extreme offensive threats against the adversary 's society . |
| 10 | It is in fact an underground river so extensive that the trip in a flat-bottomed boat lasts twenty-five minutes . |
| 11 | The porcelain from which the cup was formed was so translucent that the grain of the wood upon which it sat was faintly visible through it . |
| 12 | The hon. Gentleman 's grasp of detail is usually so light that the idea of actually debating with him at all is risible . |
| 13 | The sentences above evoke a silence which was so absolute that the perception of a pin or a dead mosquito dropping to the floor was possible . |
| 14 | It is not so much that the culture of masculine honour is a sublimation of homosexuality , ; rather masculine honour repeatedly incites what , heterosexually , it presupposes but can not admit . |
| 15 | She and Donald had started to take risks — they wanted each other so much that the reality of other people had dimmed for them , half the time they felt cloaked in invisibility . |
| 16 | The situation is now so serious that an area of tropical rainforest the size of 6 football pitches is destroyed every minute of the day . |
| 17 | Many women are unable to get beyond this sequence , finding It so graphic that the act of watching it becomes close to an act of violation in itself . |
| 18 | She was smaller than Jenna with none of Jenna 's slender , willowy height , but she was so healthy-looking that the fact in itself gave her an added attraction . |
| 19 | That might not have mattered unduly , but their early form was so ordinary that a lack of impact off the pitch was compounded by a comparable shortage of flair on it . |
| 20 | But for larger numbers of mutational steps , even in the case of the biomorphs with their nine little genes , the mathematical space of all possible trajectories is so vast that the chance of two trajectories ever arriving at the same point becomes vanishingly small . |
| 21 | It was almost two years since then , but the scents in her nostrils were so evocative that every detail of that occasion came sharply into her mind . |
| 22 | The night was so dark that the end of the trench was perceptible only as a lightening of the murk , where the ditch of the town lay ahead . |
| 23 | For a start the enemy might refuse the bait ; conceivably their generals might be so inept that the idea of outflanking would not occur to them . |
| 24 | A well-presented summary section may prove so compelling that the rest of the report is hardly questioned or challenged . |
| 25 | With a stifled sob Perdita stumbled upstairs , slamming the door so hard that every ornament in the house shook . |
| 26 | But she just spat in his face and went out , slamming the door so hard that a picture of herself fell off the wall . |
| 27 | Harry clenched his teeth so hard that the stem of his clay pipe broke , and he had to spit the bits into the hearth . |
| 28 | He looks forward to the day when home computers are so widespread that the price for software will drop by 75 per cent . |
| 29 | However , solidification of an appreciable fraction of any such core can not have happened since the Mercurian surface as we now see it began to be created , because the volume shrinkage of iron when it passes from the liquid to the solid phase is so large that the amount of internal contraction of the Mercurian surface would be far in excess of that observed . |
| 30 | I preferred them when they were fresh because they had a bit of a tang later on , but they were so good that the thought of them makes me hungry . |