Example sentences of "so [adj] [noun pl] [that] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 One explanation is that the initial infection , acquired from the ingestion of overwintered larvae in May , involves so few worms that neither clinical signs nor immunity is produced ; however , sufficient numbers of larvae are seeded on to the pasture so that by July the numbers of L3 on pasture are sufficient to produce clinical disease .
2 He said , ‘ I 'd talked so much to Nigel about his thoughts on so many things that as far as I 'm concerned he was with us all the way through .
3 If individuals could see more widely — as we can , by virtue of the narrative structure of The Lord of the Rings — they would realise that events have a cause-and-effect logic , though there are so many causes that perhaps no one but God can ever see them all at once .
4 " He has done so so often and in so many places that neither employers , nor agitators , nor his sailors pay much attention to his words " .
5 So female cuckoos that habitually parasitise pipits lay spotted eggs , while those that choose redstarts in continental Europe lay plain blue ones .
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