Example sentences of "become so [adj] that [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , not falling apart , ’ said Rohmer , raising his voice over the groaning , cracking , straining noise as it now became so loud that surely it must burst apart like a bomb , killing them all in the process . |
| 2 | At Berlin and GHQ Charleville-Mézières , the Kaiser 's appearances were becoming so infrequent that even his senior counsellors were openly expressing disapproval at his aloofness from the war . |
| 3 | Gouzenko had obvious reasons for perpetuating this myth and was always astute enough to embroider his story with whatever facts the listener wanted to hear , eventually becoming so vain that even he did not know what was truth or fiction . |
| 4 | However , within just a few hours , as the region continued to collapse , the difference in the gravitational forces on his head and his feet would become so strong that again it would tear him apart . |
| 5 | Downstairs , in the little stationery shop at the back which her father had started in a small way as a trial , and which had become so successful that sometimes he joked it financed everything else , was a safe full of cash . |
| 6 | Anxiety is commonly intermingled with fear and takes the form of restlessness ; it is a mental anxiety and uneasiness that makes the patient toss and turn , get up and walk about , move from place to place , one position to another but they become so weak that eventually , in very serious diseases , he is prostrate even to having a deathly aspect . |
| 7 | When a Hollywood genre — in this case , the ‘ action-packed ’ buddy movie — becomes so tired that even Hollywood realizes it , their solution is simple : just reverse the formula until that becomes the formula . |