Example sentences of "[noun pl] so [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | You would n't , would you ? ’ he asked , his eyes so pleading that Leith , aware that he was asking her to ring Rosemary and then pass the phone over to him , had no thought to refuse . |
| 2 | However , it soon became clear that , not only are Indian gaols so varied that to describe any one is to create a false picture , but a description of ‘ conditions ’ alone would give readers outside India little real insight into the country 's prison system or how it is experienced by inmates . |
| 3 | Our preference is to have the lines so matched that , when the two handles are held together , the stunt kite soars overhead and is as stable as a single line kite . |
| 4 | His face was an arrangement of harsh lines so discouraging that she almost lost her nerve and backed out . |
| 5 | There was a trench running down this one , too , its contents so foul that he walked with his feet astride it . |
| 6 | I believe the Colonel now thought things so pacified that it was safe and expedient to bring his oldest child out for a vacation . |
| 7 | When he is first led into her presence she is veiled ‘ but with her draperies so arranged that they emphasised rather than concealed the wonderful elegance of her tall form ’ and ‘ two plaits of glossy , raven hair ’ , each ending in a ‘ single large pearl ’ , appear beneath her veil . |
| 8 | Performance is measured against objectives so ensuring that the contract is fulfilled . |
| 9 | Virginia was staring at Horatia , her lips almost blue , her pupils so dilated that the eyes looked black . |
| 10 | about the room were high chairs and low chairs , bandy-legged chairs , chairs so attenuated that it was a wonder any but a sylph could sit upon them , marqueterie tables covered with marvellous gimcracks , china ornaments of all ages and countries , bronzes , gilt daggers , Books of Beauty , yataghans , Turkish papooshes and boxes of Parisian bonbons … |
| 11 | Rumour and gossip will spread and the employer may well find key staff and others so unsettled that they look for and find other jobs . |
| 12 | For too long , says Ward , we have persisted in the Henry Ford myth that only a genetically privileged few can do joined-up thinking , and the rest are fit for manual tasks so simplified that they produce that brand of mind-numbing tedium which is the most fertile soil for industrial unrest . |
| 13 | The nation where this debate is being launched has just emerged , in the spring of 1974 , from a confrontation between Government and unions so destabilizing that some people had been daily expecting to see tanks in Whitehall . |
| 14 | This is one of those English expressions so weathered that their emotional batteries are irretrievably flat but , from the lips of someone who spoke English with the cool precision of a fluent foreigner , the phrase was terribly affecting . |
| 15 | In fact , the Port of Rotterdam offers you a variety of facilities so complete that other ports can only dream of them . |
| 16 | But now , with her fires so stoked that she could no longer contain them , her messages were confused . |