Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] so [adj] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parallel computing has matured so much that users and manufacturers are beginning to discuss standardisation . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The stone which the East Germans have lifted , however , has revealed so much that is nasty that many East Germans will never again live in comfort with neighbours , workmates , even close relatives . |
| 6 | The argument that public sector employment has expanded so much that it has absorbed too much labour and it has thus had an adverse effect on the national economy will be examined in the next chapter . |
| 7 | The focus has narrowed so much that all background has become murky . |
| 8 | 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 ] … |
| 9 | ‘ I think Germany has become so rich that it has completely lost its fighting spirit , ’ said Turkey 's President Turgut Ozal on German television . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | By the time I turn into the little lane where I live it has become so intense that I usually slow down . |
| 25 | The two-week course has become so popular that there is a six-month waiting list . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Its tasty home-cooking has become so popular that ordinary diners are squeezing the fishermen out . |
| 28 | In local authority work today committee work has become so important that a great measure of power is given to committees . |
| 29 | But Houston Oilers quarterback Warren Moon explains : ‘ Creating turnovers has become so important that players are being coached to strike with the helmet first in the hope it will jar the ball loose . |
| 30 | Since the new constitution was enacted in 1937 , the prohibition on divorce has become so strict that couples who have been granted a nullity decree by Roman catholic canonical tribunals have found that they may still not be recognized as single by the state , and are thus unable to remarry in the Republic . |