Example sentences of "[noun pl] so [adv] [vb pp] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | August Weismann was utterly opposed to Lamarckism and Weismann 's opinions so far prevailed that A. D. Darbishire in his authoritative Breeding and the Mendelian Discovery ( London , 1911 ) put the matter thus . |
| 2 | The CEO must cope not only with a huge array of often amorphous and constantly changing data but also with variables so tightly interwoven that they must be disentangled before they will yield useful information . |
| 3 | In Spain , what Henry Kamen has called the ‘ series of autos de fe which burnt out Protestantism ’ began at Valladolid in May 1559 , while in France , at exactly the same time , persecution of the Calvinists so much increased that Calvin 's greatest follower , Theodore Beza , began to question Calvin 's insistence on non-resistance to authority . |
| 4 | There is no precise meaning to ‘ double ’ with regard to petal number , and the word is taken to mean a number of petals so closely packed that until the bloom fully opens and then ‘ blows ’ , it is virtually impossible to see the anthers and other sexual parts of the flower — they are quite hidden . |
| 5 | But oh , the glory and the convenience of skiing in resorts where you step into your bindings and ski down to the lift without setting foot to snow , where you cruise all day on networks so meticulously designed that you have but to descend to find another fan of lifts at your disposal . |
| 6 | This argument appealed to what I called the ideal of protected expectation , that collective force should be used only in accordance with standards chosen and read through procedures the community as a whole knows will be used for that purpose , procedures so widely acknowledged that they are matters of general social or professional convention . |
| 7 | Paddy quickly took command , but with most of their gear missing and two men so badly injured that they had to be left behind , there was nothing for it but to try to make the rendezvous with the LRDG . |
| 8 | I have many reasons for visiting Van Diemens Land first — the climate is more like that of England and many of the Birds , I believe only pigeons may visit that island from the Continent , many are local species and others so nearly allied that [ only ] an inspection of them in a state of nature is possible to ascertain their being specifically different . |