Example sentences of "[been] so [adj] [that] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their lives had been so impoverished that even those elementary things had been taken from them . |
| 2 | And the demand for jam jars had been so great that even salvage dumps and cemeteries had been searched for extra supplies . |
| 3 | The RoboCop is basically a ‘ man in a suit ’ ; but in the story he has been so reconstituted that even his skin , seen only at his face and not much there until he takes off his helmet , is supposed to be toughened like plastic . |
| 4 | The withdrawal of earlier death has been so marked that today most English people will have no direct experience of the grief of bereavement until they lose their own parents , when they are themselves well into middle age . |
| 5 | Elizabeth 's distress had been so evident that even Lydia felt bound to take it seriously . |