Example sentences of "[that] [vb -s] so [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It 's hunger that drives so many ballet students there , not an innate artistic urge .
2 Equally to the point , the spectre of drastic economies that haunts so many men and women is often the result of their having only the haziest idea as to their likely income and expenditure .
3 A highly crafted , hugely sophisticated building-machine that rewrites so many rules of conventional corporate architecture is inevitably hard to digest .
4 How can a cooker that looks so good cost so little ?
5 This is the confusion that bedevils so much liberationist and even scientific thinking .
6 To illustrate this point , let us return to the phenomenon that motivates so much research on the global system , namely the gap between rich and poor .
7 We 're gon na sing a song now in in closing that puts this challenge to us , it 's number one sixty one in the , Songs of Fellowship , it reminds us that we 're the ones , not the other person not the young person that shows so much promise that we think , not somebody else who is so much more gifted than we are , but here , it says , here I am available .
8 But the motivation that leads so many historians to work on this material also derives from the status that the theory of natural selection has achieved within modern biology .
9 In a country that invests so much energy and passion in the game , the frustrations that defeat and incompetence arouse , inevitably breeds resentment .
10 In short children across , across the globe are facing pressures and conditions that are no longer considered acceptable to an international community that sees so much suffering around the world .
11 It is , perhaps , unsurprising that individual liberty should be one of the chief casualties of a system of government that rests so much power in the executive branch .
12 ‘ It was everything that attracts so many people .
13 The Back Bowls have only two main lifts so there is none of the mechanical clanking that blights so many resorts .
14 Decayed environments invite bulldozers and wholesale demolition — antithesis of the process of replacement over generations that gives so many townscapes in Britain their appeal .
15 In a Pastoral letter titled ‘ Our Duties to Those in Need ’ , he wrote of ‘ the disaster that threatens so many miners in our community .
16 I felt sure that he was more than a little drunk , but his voice never slurred or changed from that flat resonance that makes so many Americans sound as though they are speaking over a loud-hailer .
17 We may know these things on an intellectual level , but there 's nothing like having the emotional truth of them brought home on a gut level-none of us are free from some degree of the self-blame that makes so many women feel responsible for their own rape .
18 It is , then , custom which persuades us of it ; it is custom that makes so many men Christians ; custom that makes them Turks , heathens , artisans , soldiers etc .
19 Is it only the recession that makes so many people , especially the young , talk so much about their job prospects ?
20 In the immortal phrase that heralds so many climbs , we had just gone for a look .
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