Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] so [adj] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he says that is why he finds it so galling that one episode in the new series has trees growing right up to the line , which would never happen and describes how one of the engines used to stop to enjoy the view . |
| 2 | It 's it makes it so easy that the staff , one ca n't dress any better than the other . |
| 3 | I understand — the actor talks to a non-existent character , or even a dog , on the stage , and he makes it so real that the audience sees it , you actually see Gabriel . |
| 4 | It takes death and makes it so beautiful that dervishes hasten to it ; it takes tears and makes of them a substance more precious than pearls . |
| 5 | I acknowledge that Fish 's enterprise in [ his book ] Is There a Text in this Class ? , unlike Joyce 's in Finnegans Wake , makes it so unlikely that he intended to call the word ‘ pleasurably' an ‘ adverb' that I 'd feel bound — if I were his executor and he dead — to change it . |
| 6 | But in any case , what — other than the dictionary itself — makes us so sure that words ‘ have ’ basic meanings that apply in every context ? |
| 7 | For clearly , they can not have non-restrictive relative counterparts.3 But what makes us so sure that it is an example of apposition ? |