Example sentences of "so [adv] that it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sooner or later , the knee will have to make a move , but now it is immobilised by the two flies , the lower of which is so still that it seems dead . |
| 2 | The fly on top is on the contrary quite agitated , jerking tremendously , then convulsively , putting out its left foreleg to whip , or maybe to stroke some sort of reaction out of the fly beneath , which , however , remains so still that it seems dead . |
| 3 | A conservative estimate is that , in the absence of natural selection , DNA replicates so accurately that it takes five million replication generations to miscopy I per cent of the characters . |
| 4 | The broadcaster who gave a complicated radio talk on a technical subject was wasting his time , for no one listened to him — a point which came over in interviews so often that it became indisputable . |
| 5 | It is , of course , impossible to foresee the future , but the effective demise of the Catholic Church has been prophesied so often that it seems wiser to conclude that the vast movement of transformation begun by Vatican II will not be easily ended either internally or externally . |
| 6 | The first time was during the 1930s , when the court first read the commerce clause of the constitution so narrowly that it gutted much New Deal legislation , and then suddenly reversed itself . |
| 7 | Its population was expanding so fast that it seemed impossible that food production could keep pace with it . |
| 8 | Standing up to straighten his back , he would take as many as half a dozen buds , popping them all into his mouth , then down he 'd go , snick , snick , bud in , and on to the next — he went so fast that it took two assistants following behind and tying in to keep up with him ! |
| 9 | Correctly named Limnanthes douglasii , the seed is readily available and , when conditions suit , it seeds itself so readily that it becomes self-perpetuating and can even become invasive . |
| 10 | The responsibility had lain so heavily that it took some time to readjust . |