Example sentences of "[verb] so [adj] [that] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , not falling apart , ’ said Rohmer , raising his voice over the groaning , cracking , straining noise as it now became so loud that surely it must burst apart like a bomb , killing them all in the process . |
| 2 | At Berlin and GHQ Charleville-Mézières , the Kaiser 's appearances were becoming so infrequent that even his senior counsellors were openly expressing disapproval at his aloofness from the war . |
| 3 | Gouzenko had obvious reasons for perpetuating this myth and was always astute enough to embroider his story with whatever facts the listener wanted to hear , eventually becoming so vain that even he did not know what was truth or fiction . |
| 4 | The rebellion of the American colonies in the eighteenth century confronted the British with an axiom which , for reasons which are capable of being understood , they found so unpleasant that more than two centuries later they have still not ceased attempting to wish it out of existence . |
| 5 | While there are countless instances of cheerful competence in schools , there are many others where morale has dropped so low that even these two minimum conditions can not be met . |
| 6 | And d' ya know I I 'm beginning to think you sort of protest so much that maybe you 're a leader of a coven or something . |
| 7 | He also gave me whole tins of peaches in syrup ; I ate so many that eventually I broke out in a painful rash . |
| 8 | The city council 's boundaries are drawn so tight that everywhere is within cycling distance . |
| 9 | However , within just a few hours , as the region continued to collapse , the difference in the gravitational forces on his head and his feet would become so strong that again it would tear him apart . |
| 10 | WE used to lead the way , set the trend ; things have been allowed to drift so much that now we 're struggling to catch up ’ . |
| 11 | Downstairs , in the little stationery shop at the back which her father had started in a small way as a trial , and which had become so successful that sometimes he joked it financed everything else , was a safe full of cash . |
| 12 | A sheltered housing project in Thornaby has proved so popular that only a few flats are left . |
| 13 | The means test is now being set so low that only people who are unemployed or have incomes near benefit levels will be able to obtain free legal help . |
| 14 | Corbett loved the brilliant logic delivered so tongue-in-cheek that only those who wished to take offence would be affronted . |
| 15 | Louise looked at Fleury and felt so vulnerable that presently she began to cry . |
| 16 | By the summer of 1905 the government looked so vulnerable that even irreproachable traditionalists such as the Marshals of the Nobility concluded that political reform was inescapable . |
| 17 | The government looked so vulnerable that even irreproachable traditionalists among the landowning nobility concluded that political reform was inescapable . |
| 18 | He looked so downcast that even Angalo patted him on the shoulder . |
| 19 | Anxiety is commonly intermingled with fear and takes the form of restlessness ; it is a mental anxiety and uneasiness that makes the patient toss and turn , get up and walk about , move from place to place , one position to another but they become so weak that eventually , in very serious diseases , he is prostrate even to having a deathly aspect . |
| 20 | The fact was that distrust of Chamberlain ran so deep that even the most unequivocal supporter of rearmament in the labour movement could not give unreserved support to his Government 's military preparations . |
| 21 | When a Hollywood genre — in this case , the ‘ action-packed ’ buddy movie — becomes so tired that even Hollywood realizes it , their solution is simple : just reverse the formula until that becomes the formula . |
| 22 | His story sounded so genuine that just for a moment she was tempted to tell him , but something held her back , a deep-seated fear of making a mistake . |
| 23 | And he , for his part , was feeling so euphoric that instead of shouting to his son to get up and stir his stumps , he had actually gone in there and put the envelope on Adam 's bedside table . |
| 24 | Pammy , then , there 's a picture of her tractor , is there , no I have n't got one here , yes , is that the Alice Charmers , well , do you know the Alice Charmers tractor , the two front wheel close together , it 's got big wheels the long one , two little , well it was a bigger tractor than that but they were closer together Well , she was driving up this steep bank , I think that was how much the , and who knows so steep that only two roads were up near here , she could have gone over , it was terrible , and of course that thing , erm where is it ? |
| 25 | Had it changed so much that even he — the cornerstone — began to doubt their course ? |