Example sentences of "[noun sg] so [adv] [verb] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His dark face was framed by raven-black hair so perfectly cut that it barely changed its set as he moved . |
| 2 | He was very small , sandy-haired , sharp-featured and with his sense of smell so well developed that it was rumoured that he had sniffed out a suicide in Epping Forest even before the animal predators got to it . |
| 3 | Prestel Education started its own software service in the Autumn term of 1985 and the feedback so far suggests that this is a service which schools find most welcome . |
| 4 | One might wonder why metaphor so often demands that its work be described in terms of colonization and occupation , and what it is about an initial transportation of meaning that turns it into a conquest or a coercive restructuring . |
| 5 | Again , I am amazed that I accomplished the job so quickly seeing that most of the work was done at weekends . |
| 6 | The opening pages are ravishing : exquisite cor anglais and oboe plaints , the tenderest of string bass solos , and an organ so discreetly reassuring that it sounds locked deep in the subconscious . |
| 7 | However , the evidence so far suggests that it is not enough to persuade businesspeople that rates will really be fixed forever . |
| 8 | The evidence so far suggests that the interviewers will fail . |
| 9 | However , the evidence so far suggests that bats are using the technique , not to distinguish an echo from the original sound that produced it , but for the more subtle task of distinguishing echoes from other echoes . |
| 10 | Her reading of the passions of men and women in the past so often revealed that ecstatic love ended in tragedy . |
| 11 | Eddie had been dead ten long years , a life so abruptly terminated that she had never come to terms with it . |
| 12 | Even in contemporary Western democracies , a government so powerfully entrenched that it may not feel troubled by the agitation of its enemies , detractors or of its powerless minorities , may court the danger of violent reaction . |
| 13 | ‘ And the poor thing so badly trained that it can not be brought into a Christian household . ’ |
| 14 | Saudi Arabia and other members also disagreed over the interpretation of the ‘ marker ’ crude price set at the previous year 's OPEC conference in Bah , with a resolution so widely phrased that each member could do whatever it chose . |
| 15 | Johnson found the terrain ‘ still naked ’ but bountiful , with land so utterly ploughed that he wondered where the grass grew to feed the plough-horses . |
| 16 | That is what the illogical anti-contraception stance of the Roman Catholic Church is in effect saying — and as that film so vividly illustrated that would mean a mini-genocide going on inside every male every minute . |
| 17 | Beatty 's aim was to keep Hipper so closely engaged that the Germans could not break off the action until Jellicoe arrived ; Hipper 's task was to lure Beatty to destruction at the hands of Scheer . |
| 18 | Our discussion so far implies that many animals are lay physicists , that they have implicit knowledge of real-world properties ( such as the optics of 3-D objects viewed in air or water ) that can be explicitly described by professional physicists . |
| 19 | He ducked under the thief 's sword arm and brought his own blade around in an arc so incompetently misjudged that it hit the man flat-first and jolted out of the wizard 's hand . |
| 20 | Gerard said that " all kinds of Hyssope do grow in my Garden " and disdained to describe it , any more than Dioscorides did : " as being a plant so well known that it needed none " ( description ) , and it was illustrated in an Italian Herbal published in 1744 , where it was called H. vulgaris . |
| 21 | But the great hikes we undertake on our holidays , usually in the Highlands of Scotland , or some other bleak , wet , cold hill country that I got to know in the days when I used to go climbing by myself ( and there 's another subject we might discuss ! ) , habitually entail a complex of discomfort , exhaustion , irritation , confusion , sheer misery and intense exhilaration so closely intertwined that I shall have to leave them to be considered on another occasion . |