Example sentences of "[adv] so [vb pp] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Francis Morgan would no doubt ring him too , but he was naturally so shaken that McLeish thought that small piece of insurance worthwhile . |
| 2 | Legislation has not only so multiplied that it is now the characteristic activity of the modern state , but it has been addressed to complicated matters which have increased the complexity and bulk of individual statutes so that they often go unread even by the legislators who pass them . |
| 3 | ‘ Things here are not so settled that you can all of a sudden disappear , ’ Guillamon said . |
| 4 | Her father 's loving- ( or lying- ) competition , designed though it may be to give her the best part of England ( which he is also giving himself , of course , since he intends to live in retirement with her ) , and revealing , in a way , his love for her , is nevertheless so constructed that she would have to compete with hypocrisy in order to win . |
| 5 | Beginning by a fantastic attempt to construct pedigrees where sons were their own fathers , I became gradually so involved that I remember wondering if God the Father were in truth only the child that grew up into Jesus Christ . |
| 6 | This is done , for example , in order to provide an economical method of introducing a new technology into the company by using an established expert , or when in-house resources are temporarily so stretched that it is the only feasible expedient . |
| 7 | By further eroding the definition of spiritualia , the regalian exploitation of episcopal vacancies was now so extended that Edward claimed to fill livings — vicarages as well as rectories — emptied during an episcopal vacancy retrospectively , even if it had occurred during his father 's reign . |
| 8 | But budgetary relations between the White House and Democratic leaders in Congress are now so strained that some officials warn that the whole process of long-term deficit reduction could be threatened . |
| 9 | Her head was now so bent that her dark hair had swung forwards so as to obscure her expression . |
| 10 | Modern civilization was not now so decayed that the new style proposed by the Mediaevalists was justified . |
| 11 | Some football hooligans , the article goes on , are now so organised that they have the audacity to leave professionally printed calling cards in the pockets of their battered victims . |
| 12 | Previously self-reliant communities are now so dispersed that the whereabouts of family members remains unknown . |
| 13 | And , anyway , she was n't so deluded that she thought they might make a life together . |
| 14 | As Sir Arthur Bryant has so vividly put it , ‘ That life of scholarship and labour , with the tireless hand writing amid the intervals of prayer and teaching , sometimes so frozen that it could hardly grip the pen , is one of the proud memories of England . ’ |
| 15 | In fact , it was sometimes so crowded that customers could not get near ! |