Example sentences of "[vb -s] so [adj] [that] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cessation of growth is most likely to result from starvation , which may arise because : the whelks eat out their food supply , or the supply fails for some other reason ( perhaps as a result of pollution Bryan ( 1969 ) ; wave action dislodges the whelks and transports them away from their food supply , or prevents them from feeding in some other way ( Cowell and Crothers , 1970 ) ; the temperature drops so low that the whelks become inactive for a long period ( Feare , 1970a ) . |
| 2 | I can remember exactly what I was doing and , out of context , my behaviour seems so harmless that the need for secrecy appears quite mysterious . |
| 3 | Now that it no longer seems so shocking that the town should have grown as it has , the newer half is in fact the more attractive , a fine example of what you might call the Thermal-Imperial style , imposing even in its incongruity , up here in the mountains , with its tall bourgeois hotels framed against the surrounding woods and crags . |
| 4 | In other words , the value of money decreases so much that the eventual outlay of £1,116 over 93 years is only equivalent to just short of £200 in 1900 's currency — weird stuff money ! |
| 5 | To this day , public fascination with the disaster remains so strong that a flourishinhg market has developed for Titanic memorabilia . |
| 6 | Space-time in the vicinity of a star whose radius shrinks to a value less than becomes so warped that the region inside radius rO is effectively isolated from the rest of the Universe . |
| 7 | Eventually , when the star has shrunk to a certain critical radius , the gravitational field at the surface becomes so strong that the light cones are bent inward so much that light can no longer escape ( Fig. 6.1 ) . |
| 8 | But as mid-day approaches , it becomes so hot that the lizards and birds retreat into the shade wherever they can find it . |
| 9 | Where the terrain becomes so steep that the leader no longer has a reasonable likelihood of controlling a slide , then belays of some form should be taken for the seconds . |
| 10 | Reality becomes so painful that the sufferer uses his or her substance or process of addiction in order to survive the emotional carnage . |
| 11 | Dismissal may include constructive dismissal : the employer 's behaviour proves so objectionable that the employee is obliged to leave . |