Example sentences of "so [adv] that it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the Free Presbyterians ( and other conservative Christians ) who picketed a newly opened sex shop on the Castlereagh Road in Belfast ( so successfully that it closed ) saw themselves , not as denying anyone their basic right to sin , but as preventing further incitement and encouragement to sin . |
| 2 | In captivity , a good memory and fear will destroy the horse if it is handled so badly that it becomes permanently anxious . |
| 3 | For fear of losing one or two sales of its obsolete mainframes , IBM designed the RT so badly that it had to junk the machine completely and start again from scratch to create the ( incompatible ) RS/6000 . |
| 4 | ‘ God , ’ he muttered against her neck , ‘ you can be the most impossible woman I 've ever met , but I want you so badly that it hurts . ’ |
| 5 | But I was trembling so badly that it shook the knife out of my skin , and I could move again . |
| 6 | Yet she had timed her appearance so exactly that it seemed as if she had been forewarned of the train 's arrival . |
| 7 | They 'd get so much grain and they 'd eat it so quickly that it swelled out before they had time to digest it . |
| 8 | This , of course , happens so quickly that it appears that the letters are displayed as a direct mechanical response to the keypress . |
| 9 | Sooner or later , the knee will have to make a move , but now it is immobilised by the two flies , the lower of which is so still that it seems dead . |
| 10 | The fly on top is on the contrary quite agitated , jerking tremendously , then convulsively , putting out its left foreleg to whip , or maybe to stroke some sort of reaction out of the fly beneath , which , however , remains so still that it seems dead . |
| 11 | The Scottish Seamen 's Union , originally claimed to have 1,000 members , lost support so rapidly that it survived for no more than two months . |
| 12 | Albert had spoken so calmly that it made her calm too . |
| 13 | Steve laughed so unnaturally that it caused Ruth to widen her eyes at him with surprise . |
| 14 | The prince was seated , not in his chair of state , but between two of his clerks at a trestle table , with a quantity of papers and parchments spread before them ; and his treasurer stood at his shoulder , ready to advise if requested , but looking on so impartially that it seemed to her he had already done his share . |
| 15 | As she returned to her nest , looking around her , she could see it so clearly that it made her laugh . |
| 16 | On 19 June 1841 the spire of St Michael 's was struck by lightning so severely that it had to be taken down and rebuilt at a cost of £84 , paid for by the Buxtons . |
| 17 | The blue component of incoming solar radiation is scattered so severely that it appears to our eyes to be coming from the entire sky . |
| 18 | The trick is to push a dispute just far enough to make your opponent cave in for fear of a court action , but not so far that it goes to court . |
| 19 | In January 1949 the British cabinet ruled that co-operation with Europe should not be taken so far that it compromised Britain 's ability to survive as an independent state . |
| 20 | He hit a huge drive which rolled so far that it ended in deep rough . |
| 21 | The compression of the state pension down to income support levels has gone so far that it has superseded the income support level , so that every pensioner , as of right , should be on income support . |
| 22 | It looked very attractive until it was washed , when it stretched so appallingly that it reached to her knees ! |
| 23 | A conservative estimate is that , in the absence of natural selection , DNA replicates so accurately that it takes five million replication generations to miscopy I per cent of the characters . |
| 24 | The edition for 1605 , no longer extant , was said to have foretold the Gunpowder Plot so accurately that it brought him under suspicion of complicity . |
| 25 | If Irish industry is indeed managing its 17 000 out of 20 000 tonnes production of toxic wastes so efficiently that it pollutes neither land nor water then Ireland ought , by right , to become top European advisor on wastes handling . |
| 26 | The door was smashed in so often that it had to be bricked up . |
| 27 | A word or phrase used so often that it becomes a slogan . |
| 28 | The broadcaster who gave a complicated radio talk on a technical subject was wasting his time , for no one listened to him — a point which came over in interviews so often that it became indisputable . |
| 29 | The right hon. Member for Manchester , Gorton ( Mr. Kaufman ) and his team are always ingenious in defending whatever the policy of the moment is ; it is just that that policy is changed so often that it leaves a little bit of a question mark over whether they have any plan or direction at all . |
| 30 | It is , of course , impossible to foresee the future , but the effective demise of the Catholic Church has been prophesied so often that it seems wiser to conclude that the vast movement of transformation begun by Vatican II will not be easily ended either internally or externally . |