Example sentences of "[verb] so [adj] [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems that they make so many now that they do n't have the same |
| 2 | The fears that had driven him to race frantically out to the Lock seemed so ridiculous now that he could not help making a joke out of them , and himself . |
| 3 | Why should Willi always make himself look so ludicrous so that people laughed at him ? |
| 4 | At the start of chapter 16 we are reminded of it again , and things seem so hopeless now that Sarah urges Abraham to have a child by her Egyptian maid , Hagar . |
| 5 | when the music gets so loud here that you ca n't stand |
| 6 | Perhaps it is because the fishermen have been demonstrating so much recently that they have not been catching so much fish . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ No , ’ she answered quietly , and felt so guilt-ridden then that she could n't look at him , but turned her head and stared out of the side-window . |
| 8 | One librarian felt so hard up that she had begun looking for bargains at car boot sales — ‘ Adrian Mole in mint condition for 20p ’ — a practice which raises many questions about funding our schools . |
| 9 | It was always chilly at the school because the building was made of stone , rather like a castle , and was perched on the top-most peak of a mountain , surrounded by pine trees which grew so close together that it was very damp and gloomy . |
| 10 | Metallic hydrogen is expected to be produced at very high pressures because the molecules of molecular hydrogen ( H 2 ) will be forced so close together that each of the two hydrogen atoms in the H 2 molecule is attracted to atoms in neighbouring molecules as much as to its partner . |