Example sentences of "so [adv] [vb pp] [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vital grain supplies due in from Siberia were so badly held up that in January 1922 the national Council of Labour and Defence sent there Felix Dzerzhinsky , the head of the secret police , and since April 1921 Commissar for Transport . |
| 2 | They 'd been typed on an old portable with a faded ribbon , so badly laid out that it was obvious Diane was no typist . |
| 3 | The ideas are so well accepted now that , whilst the intellectual debts owed to Hess , and to Vine & Matthews , are still acknowledged in passing in modern geological textbooks , their crucial early papers on the subject are seldom specifically cited . |
| 4 | Dona 's affair was secretive and so well thought out that she could continue it without damaging her reputation . |
| 5 | Blanche pretends to be so well brought up that she can not go in . |
| 6 | On evening walks down Loreto , a lane of high stone walls , trying to decide on a restaurant , I would stop and run my hands over the ashlars , marvelling at the purity of each one as I have marvelled at the completeness of a sculpture by Brancusi ; each of them so tightly locked together that I found it impossible to fit a fingernail between them . |
| 7 | The stone hit her square on the flank and she yelped , but their genitals were so tightly locked together that neither dog could move . |
| 8 | They were originally thought to have been two closely related species occurring together in the same rocks , but these ‘ pairs ’ were so consistently found together that it became more and more probable that they were sexual forms of the same species . |
| 9 | The other girl in contrast to both Jenny and Sheila was so heavily made up that it was like looking at someone behind a mask . |
| 10 | The forest corridor through which the elephants were to walk was so heavily logged over that it had disappeared in some places . |
| 11 | Since each dyke is quite narrow , averaging only ten metres wide , that 's an awful lot of dykes , and a cross-section through Iceland would reveal hundreds and hundreds , sometimes so closely spaced together that there would be scarcely any non-dyke material present and many dykes would be intruded up the middle of earlier ones . |
| 12 | Some years earlier a train carrying pilgrims had been so seriously held up that its journey had taken twenty-four hours rather than seven or eight . |