Example sentences of "so [adj] [conj] they [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ethnic differences are so striking that they are described separately in Chapter 12 , although there are a few references in the text below . |
| 2 | Yes a row of houses and of course when I saw I looked out the door and there was this plane swooping down like that and it seemed so low because they were aiming an and the bomb fell in the cattle market and , and I threw myself on to the stone floor , you see , and er and presently one of the ambulance men came round to my office door and he said , are you alright ? |
| 3 | Vicki Burwell of Thomas Cook said : ‘ I do n't think anyone seriously believes that these flights will happen in our lifetime , yet people are so interested that they 're putting their names down , just in case . ’ |
| 4 | Erm a lot of people are n't so clear when they 're going straight ahead . |
| 5 | General knowledge quizzes of the trivial pursuit type are useful money raisers but are so popular that they are beginning to be dominated by teams that take an almost professional approach to the game . |
| 6 | As the material is almost always white I find they are not so conspicuous if they are painted black or dark green , using non-toxic paint |
| 7 | Some cases are so serious that they are transferred by the magistrates to the Crown Court . |
| 8 | It is said that his influence came through his extraordinary power , both learned and ‘ uncanny ’ , to rearrange suggestively the letters of the divine Name ( the Tetragrammaton : YHWH ) , which are so sacrosanct that they are considered to be unpronounceable . |
| 9 | Generally , Asians in Britain have been regarded both as scroungers and as so industrious that they are taking over jobs and businesses , as both thrifty and flashy . |
| 10 | Indeed , they are often considered to be so routine that they are taken to be ‘ normal ’ . |
| 11 | But these that do it they must be bloody experienced at it they could do it so quick as they was doing it . |
| 12 | The subjects with influenza B were not so ill that they were confined to bed , so influenza could possibly endanger people 's safety at work . |
| 13 | Ski Scott Dunn brought informal luxury to Champery three years ago : now the demand is so great that they are expanding into Zermatt : 01–602 8029 . |
| 14 | The writer then explores what research can tell us about the impact of national policies on families , the impact of community attitudes , children 's experiences of divorce and step-families and some of the traumas children suffer in the course of family life , sometimes so great that they are driven to run away and then incur other serious problems for which inadequate provision is made in the community as a whole . |
| 15 | The journals remain cheap and popular , but demand is so great that they are bought mostly by subscription , hardly ever from a news stand . |
| 16 | They are satirical and often so horrific that they were suppressed at the time . |
| 17 | Although barbel are so stupid when they are feeding ravenously , they are not so stupid they can not learn a few tricks of their own to enable them to feed in the face of apparent danger . |
| 18 | The ideal way , way of arranging a room as I see it would be that you could have your separate rooms but have sliding doors , after all there 's nothing new in sliding doors , er , but doors opening and closing erm are restrictive , that 's only my own personal view , my wife does n't necessarily , necessarily share that view ideally if I was planning a house , the main room the main living room would be much larger than the one we live in , it would certainly be a different shape , erm when we had our golden wedding erm our visitors were so numerous that they were standing shoulder to shoulder in these two rooms and the kitchen whereas if it had been a reasonably designed house maybe we could of spread them around a little more , but they 're minor , minor defects that are not really serious . |
| 19 | More damaging to the continuity of sessions were the frequent occasions when teachers interrupted themselves , either because they did not have a very clear idea of what they were trying to say , or because their organizational structure was so complicated that they were trying to do too many things at once . |
| 20 | The habit of mind which opposes family and state , and which gives the family a special position in the organization of a polity , is not solely Libyan : strongly étatique societies have often tried to abolish or limit the institution of the family ; and the attempts by government to regulate family life by intervening to increase or to decrease births , by altering rules of inheritance , by inhibiting or encouraging kinship corporations , are so familiar that they are taken to be natural functions of the state . |
| 21 | Rover and other car manufacturers are now so successful that they are exporting to Japan and elsewhere . |
| 22 | Snotlings are so small that they are modelled in multiples on a single large base . |
| 23 | Apart from the inflation associated with the Korean War , this period was marked by a combination of unprecedentedly low unemployment rates with price levels which were admittedly creeping upwards , but at rates which were so modest that they were regarded as tolerable . |
| 24 | Health officials are so worried that they are asking people to double check that they have the correct vaccinations before leaving the country . |
| 25 | They were so green that they were going to the CAB to find out about unions . |
| 26 | They were uneasy to think that he had passed so close while they were sleeping but , as Michael pointed out , there was an advantage in knowing that he was ahead of them . |
| 27 | Subsequent ribbon development has been so spectacular that they were booming even before the election announcement . |
| 28 | But yeah I mean it 's not going to be quite so true because they 're gon na think Well when you write it down you think Well actually it 's got nothing to do with this be really clever . |
| 29 | Some were so bulky that they were borne into the Rante sitting upright like pugnacious lords in specially constructed litters , carried by as many as eight straining porters . |