Example sentences of "[vb past] so [adj] [that] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The BeSHT became so influential that the leaders of the people , the power-manipulators and self-appointed guardians of the Law , had no alternative but to do what their like has always done to those who broke loose , butterfly-like : They excommunicated him ; marginalised his usefulness ; neutered his religious potency : ‘ A prophet is not without honour … ’ |
| 2 | When this process was repeated several times the particles of the starting material became so small that the total surface area available for reaction was very great . |
| 3 | News at Ten quickly became so popular that the companies built their evening scheduling round it . |
| 4 | .. the whole commotion increasing towards 5 p.m. when it became so intense that the captain feared to continue his voyage , and began to shorten sail . |
| 5 | During the winter of 1892 , it is recorded that the weather became so cold that the River Thames froze over at Chiswick . |
| 6 | But the winds became so fierce that the whole forest shook . |
| 7 | This book is the true story of a decade in which physical and mental torture became so common that the wonder is not that so many were killed or driven to kill themselves but that so many more survived . |
| 8 | At one time , IBM Corp 's shares regularly got so heavy that the company would split them to make them more marketable , a move that usually tends to increase the value of a company in the market : those days are long gone for IBM , and now it 's upstarts like Intel Corp that are able to flex their financial muscles : its board has approved a two-for-one split , and shareholders will vote on the proposal on May 5 . |
| 9 | In an exchange of letters in January , tensions rose so high that the leaders of the two sides are no longer talking to each other . |
| 10 | Gravity lightened so much that the trio almost felt afloat . |
| 11 | At Moscow University , where the political economist I. V. Vernadskii found ways of advocating the emancipation of the serfs even before discussion of the subject was officially permitted , the staff changed so much that the liberally inclined Sergei Solov'ev began to look like a conservative . |
| 12 | The viking army also would not let the giantesses rest , but sailed away with them and set them to grinding salt ; they ground so much that the boat sank and the mill with it , though still ( adds folk-tradition ) in the Maelstrom the giantesses grind their magic quern . |
| 13 | Yes , but it seemed so odd that the door was standing open . |
| 14 | The supply of coal seemed so vast that no one was willing to concede the possibility of exhaustion in the near future , and in the twentieth century oil began to offer a new source of energy that the scientists and engineers of Jevons ' time had not anticipated . |
| 15 | The plane flew up the fjord , which seemed so narrow that the mountains were on both wing tips at the same time . |
| 16 | The doctor , usually such a friendly man , seemed so angry that the servants stared at him , open-mouthed . |
| 17 | It owed so much that The Saturday Review on three occasions said that it should be ruled ‘ out of court ’ . |
| 18 | His leg swung so close that the smooth black cloth brushed against her breast , setting the nerve-endings tantalisingly on edge . |
| 19 | Although it was true in each case that the essential content was the same , the emphasis varied so much that the skills and concepts developed were essentially different . |
| 20 | Those belonging to Pan American were called Clippers ; they flew the Pacific and the Atlantic and , when storms were violent , they flew so low that the spray from the waves broke over the aircraft . |
| 21 | It was the weather which really decided the issue for , one observer wrote , ‘ It blew a great storm and rained and hailed so hard that the water came out of the soldiers ’ shoes . ’ |
| 22 | Inside , it felt so phoney that the merest glimmer of amusement would have sent an embarrassed blush swirling up from her neck to her forehead . |
| 23 | It grew so loud that the shed shook , and then it stopped suddenly , leaving a nasty kind of silence that was worse than the noise . |
| 24 | Meanwhile the crowd outside , sensing a scandal , pressed even more closely against the windows of the gallery and grew so thick that the traffic was held up . |
| 25 | In 1798 , General Humbert of France came over and won a battle near there , but he took so long that the nearby towns had time to refortify . |
| 26 | While it is sad that Green Arrow is departing from the main line scene it is appropriate that this beautiful locomotive 's final run will be on the Settle and Carlisle line : in 1978 she hauled the ‘ pilot ’ steam specials over line which proved so successful that the route was released as an approved ‘ steam line ’ . |
| 27 | Waterers Landscaping became involved in the project in September and proved so popular that the original £150,000 contract grew and grew . |
| 28 | The sand proved so soft that the overloaded lorries repeatedly bogged down . |
| 29 | The anticipated sense of loss can be so strong and the wish to feel you have done everything the dying person wanted so real that the people involved will often comply no matter how outrageous the request . |
| 30 | Family and proprietary considerations still loomed so large that the Kaiser could in 1891 give orders for a mobilization to be carried out if his mother was insulted in Paris , yet it was also an age in which monarchs had more and more to personify national and even democratic causes . |