Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] so [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recovery will come when the country 's creditors decide that the return on money in the bank has fallen so low that the price of assets has become cheap . |
| 2 | But pace bowlers Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis said in a statement : ‘ We are amazed that a fellow professional has stooped so low as to make such unfounded comments . |
| 3 | We are amazed that a fellow professional has stooped so low as to make such unfounded comments in the papers . |
| 4 | While there are countless instances of cheerful competence in schools , there are many others where morale has dropped so low that even these two minimum conditions can not be met . |
| 5 | In recent years the evidence for the health benefits of fibre , or ‘ roughage ’ as it used to be called , has grown so strong that it has filtered through from the medical journals and is now well known to the British and American public . |
| 6 | It would seem that your general behaviour and sense of discipline has become so lax and sloppy that you do not even remember serious breaches of conduct . |
| 7 | This soon led to criticism of the excessive power of the Chancellor : ‘ The Chancellor 's position has become so strong that his opponents and supporters alike complain about his authoritarian style of leadership [ writing about Adenauer ] … |
| 8 | ‘ I think Germany has become so rich that it has completely lost its fighting spirit , ’ said Turkey 's President Turgut Ozal on German television . |
| 9 | Senescence in industrialized human societies has become so apparent because of the removal of most extrinsic causes of death and lowered fertility ; in the circumstances in which the life history evolved , these would have predominated , and few individuals would have lived long enough to show evidence of ageing . |
| 10 | In contrast to the United States , executive control of the House of Commons via party loyalty has become so thorough that such committees can operate only within a context defined by the executive . |
| 11 | The fervour has become so great that some now argue for a tightening of the Obscene Publications Act . |
| 12 | We are now faced with a situation , therefore , in which the debate about ‘ the environment ’ has become so wide-ranging that it has impinged upon almost every aspect of contemporary industrial society . |
| 13 | To some extent the technology people are to blame for being too optimistic but they realised that if they spelled out the true uncertainty ( even if they knew it ) there would have been no investment at all , In the end the project is abandoned or has become so expensive that it can never be profitable . |
| 14 | The law has become so complex that it can not be expected that the solicitor will be proficient in everything , and the trend is towards the large firm with specialised partners . |
| 15 | One can find examples of paper that has become so brittle that pages break away from their binding at a touch , and if anyone tries to handle the pages pieces break off . |
| 16 | Hooliganism involving Dutch supporters has become so frequent as to suggest that another blanket ban of a nation 's clubs might be necessary . |
| 17 | Contrary to popular belief , recent studies reveal that wood ( especially firewood in the shape of logs rather than small twigs and branches ) has become so scarce that in many villages only the rich can afford to buy it . |
| 18 | The truth of that observation can not be determined ; what is beyond question , however , is that violence in our town centres has become so common that it is an expected , almost accepted , feature of urban life . |
| 19 | The star goes on becoming smaller and smaller , denser and denser , until its gravitational pull has become so enormous that not even light can escape from it . |
| 20 | By the 1870s the machine has become so sophisticated that it needs more educated people to run it , to learn new techniques of maintenance and improvement , and to keep up its momentum . |
| 21 | The problem has become so widespread that the Department has told health service managers that if there is any doubt about the patient 's eligibility for free care , staff should ask for proof or a refundable deposit . |
| 22 | There the ego has become so fragmented and is so er erm sick as it were that the id has overwhelmed it and the reality sense is lost . |
| 23 | The state apparatus has become so corrupt and exploitative that the common man sees it as an enemy . |
| 24 | The art has become so refined that at state and country fairs , hog-calling contests are held , with the winner being the farmer who summons a pig from the greatest distance . |
| 25 | The process has become so refined that we even had a section called ‘ Oenology ’ , though it must be admitted that this eventually had to be re-named to ‘ Study of Wine . ’ |
| 26 | our society has become so complicated and our representative system of government so remote to many fellow citizens , that there has to be an alternative way of expressing dissent other than the constitutional way of doing it through representative government . |
| 27 | Years of trial work resulted in the discovery that organo- mercury seed treatments would control these seed-borne diseases , and from the 1940's their use has become so universal that such devastating diseases have never been witnessed by a generation or two of farmers . |
| 28 | By the time I turn into the little lane where I live it has become so intense that I usually slow down . |
| 29 | The two-week course has become so popular that there is a six-month waiting list . |
| 30 | Indeed , he has subverted the stake-in-the-heart , garlic-and-cross myth and has become so popular that he now has his own New Orleans-based fanclub . |