Example sentences of "was so [adj] that [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Folly tried to flinch away , but he was so close that every movement seemed to bring him closer . |
| 2 | ‘ The missile was so close that the warning system in the cab illuminated and fired off defensive flares , ’ he said . |
| 3 | In fact the man 's examination of his papers was so cursory that a lot of Hapsburg ingenuity had evidently been wasted . |
| 4 | The danger of a break through the northern end of the spit was so apparent that a sea wall was built along this section in 1890 . |
| 5 | He did not meet his mother from infancy until the age of twelve , when they found themselves accidentally in the same workhouse : but instead of the ‘ gush of tenderness ’ between them of which he had dreamt , ‘ her expression was so chilling that the valves of my heart closed as with a snap … |
| 6 | The variety was so wide that no generalisations can be made , except to note a lack of books explicitly on the description of language . |
| 7 | The silence was so total that the auditorium might have been empty . |
| 8 | Even Einstein , when he formulated the general theory of relativity in 1915 , was so sure that the universe had to be static that he modified his theory to make this possible , introducing a so-called cosmological constant into his equations . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | For a moment or two she sat watching a breeze ruffle the calm surface of the hotel pool — the bright blue water was so inviting that the moment you got out you wanted to get straight back in again . |
| 11 | I ca n't remember now whether in fact we were allowed any at all while we were in the Waaf , but I know that for the few years after I became a civilian again and clothes rationing still went on , the ration allocation was so small that the prospect of buying , for instance , a new winter coat was exceedingly small for most women , especially those with children , whose needs had to come first . |
| 12 | His skull , which protruded above a filthy cravat , was so small that the features of his face seemed to more than cover it ; he was bald , which added to the grotesque effect . |
| 13 | Demand was so great that a commentary of the programmes was published . |
| 14 | The importance of the machinery groups was so great that an effort was made to obtain full details of how they were organised . |
| 15 | The wealth accruing to the treasury was so great that the citizens of Italy were henceforth relieved of the need to pay tribute . |
| 16 | This they refused , but the demand for the mauve dye was so great that the Perkins allowed Nicholson to provide supplementary supplies of the dye intermediates . |
| 17 | After the first men were made , it relates , the noise of their many children was so great that the god of the earth could not sleep . |
| 18 | The flow was so great that the authorities closed the border on Aug. 22-23 in order to cope with the backlog . |
| 19 | The noise from the engines was so great that the pair could only communicate by note . |
| 20 | The impact was so great that the effect of it was to remain with me in the months ahead and give me strength when I most needed it . |
| 21 | But , although we had tested it during the day , the drop in the temperature at night was so great that the oil in the mechanism became sluggish and thick . |
| 22 | There was one occasion when he went into a café and asked for tea and then while he waited he suddenly saw a solution to a theological argument which he had with Leslie Owen the warden , and his waving of hands was so convulsive that the café refused to serve him with the tea . |
| 23 | The concentration of the cast was so strong that the mood was well maintained . |
| 24 | The resistance to devolution was so strong that the government was forced to accept that the bills should be ratified by referenda . |
| 25 | But when the Central Policy Review Staff ( the ‘ Think Tank ’ ) had suggested in the early eighties that they mount a full-scale investigation into the practices and abuses of the professions , they discovered that the influence of the lawyers upon Number 10 was so strong that the proposal was sat upon and then returned , with a suggestion they confine themselves to teachers and social workers . |
| 26 | His teaching was so authoritative that the people followed him because they could see it was different from their normal diet of religious half-truths . |
| 27 | The controversy was so deep that an appeal was made to Rome by the combatants . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He was so low that a wing-tip touched the ground , causing a ground loop . |
| 30 | Their addresses were well received and the publicity they attracted was so beneficial that the BDA in 1976 , by way of follow-up , paid for a lecture tour by Dr. David Denton , another American educationist , whose public meetings in Edinburgh , Glasgow , Carlisle , Newcastle , Doncaster and Oxford were a sell-out and an outstanding success . |