Example sentences of "so [adj] that [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rebellion of the American colonies in the eighteenth century confronted the British with an axiom which , for reasons which are capable of being understood , they found so unpleasant that more than two centuries later they have still not ceased attempting to wish it out of existence . |
| 2 | Only one explanation fitted all the facts , and it was so far-fetched that more than once she dismissed it . |
| 3 | Much later it struck me as odd that I experienced no superstitious fear or repugnance in the presence of a dead body , although I am so squeamish that more than once I have had to ask a neighbour to deal with a dead rabbit that one of the cats had brought in during the night . |
| 4 | A glance through any of the larger component catalogues will show that the number of different components currently in use is so large that even if you could afford to buy one or two of everything , you would need a warehouse to store it all . |
| 5 | He told a packed lecture chamber at Strathclyde University that the increase in CO emissions was now so large that even if there were a 1 per cent reduction worldwide from 2000 , it would take 100 years for levels to stabilise in the atmosphere . |
| 6 | But I was surprised because the songs are so good that even when they 're getting massacred by cats and dogs or Germans or Russians they still stand up . |
| 7 | For example once he went to Rome on business and when he got back he told me about a building which was like the sky at night , so big that even when you stood in front of it you could n't believe you were actually seeing it . |
| 8 | He recalled he had suffered a terrible nightmare ; so vivid that even when his eyes were open and he was screaming for his mammy , the nightmare would not leave him . |
| 9 | However , environments are usually so variable that even if the conditions are good where the animal is now , they probably will not be in a month 's time ; it may then be better to be a hundred miles south . |