Example sentences of "[noun pl] so [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | No wins so far mean that Amthaal slips in the race on 7st 12lb and he showed plenty of promise at Chester last week — racing for the first time in five months . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Then , by way of cheerful farewell , they say that enquiries so far confirm that the timing mechanism , once in operation , can not be neutralized and appears to be irreversible . ’ |
| 9 | Results so far confirm that the stratigraphy of the island is similar to that of Santa Isabel . |
| 10 | The results so far suggest that although meters are expensive to install they do lead to a drop in consumption . |
| 11 | The results so far suggest that those informants who described themselves as infrequent and inexperienced readers of SF would not regard this as SF at all ; whereas those informants who did read SF would characterise it as such . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | There are children so painfully shy that they find it difficult to voice publicly " Yes " or " No " . |
| 14 | The private group , which insures invoices and financing arrangements , recorded 1,220 falures in the first half of this year , but indications so far show that at least 2,000 more failures will be recorded by the end of the year . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The damage here tells its own story about the impact which killed four horses outright , left two others so badly hurt that they had to be put down and fourteen more with serious injuries . |
| 17 | Nevertheless the political and social motivation of some librarians and the antics of the media in frequently misrepresenting the situation when books are or are not selected have brought the two practices so uncomfortably close that we are being forced to justify what is undoubtedly a professional task of the very highest order and demanding considerable skill . |
| 18 | The measurements so far suggest that this will be far too ambitious . |