Example sentences of "so [adv] [adv] that it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the fact that she wanted to weep , and she was shaking so badly inside that it was a wonder she could still stand up straight at all , she snorted derisively , because she was too afraid to believe his words . |
| 2 | She loved Nick , loved him so much sometimes that it gave her a pain , but she hated to be told to do something she was going to do anyway . |
| 3 | In fact , the whole programme had an unsually philosophical undercurrent ( quoting , for example , philosopher Mary Midgeley ) — so much so that it sometimes seemed less like a current affairs report than an enquiry into a fundamental shift in Western attitudes to nature . |
| 4 | These changes show how financial pressures brought about the collapse of the early Roman coinage system ; so much so that it seems that for a time the Roman state had to fight the war on credit given by some of its citizens . |
| 5 | She seems to have been wholly unaware that she was in fact queen of a kingdom with a justifiably high opinion of itself — so much so that it is actually supremely ironic that Mary , brought up in one of the greatest of European countries , should have found this one , smaller , but passionately European , so much less interesting and appealing than the kingdom of England , not only Scotland 's traditional enemy , but already beginning the descent into the isolation which it was to maintain for much of the seventeenth century . |
| 6 | So much so that it has become a saw of pollsters and political commentators that ‘ election campaigns make no difference ’ . |
| 7 | In the 1960s , the Clydesdale almost disappeared without trace , so much so that it was on the Rare Breeds Survival Trust 's list of protected animals . |
| 8 | The Gay Centre in Glasgow was deteriorating socially , so much so that it was coming to the state where women and others were feeling oppressed by the atmosphere created by insensitive youths who seemed to believe the Centre , including the back room ( our only meeting-place ) , was their seven-nights-a-week preserve . |
| 9 | The latter was exquisitely beautiful , so much so that it is dangerous for any mortal to look upon her . |
| 10 | Except that on three separate programmes this weekend , Neil was urbane , witty , direct and honest — so much so that it is now rumoured he might go into TV presenting . |
| 11 | This was a mood that did not last ; the secular spirit is natural , it is more than ever clear , to modern industrial states — so much so that it invades even the clergy . |
| 12 | Sun Microsystems Inc , as reported ( CI No 2,118 ) has formed a new software subsidiary that is noticeably more distant from itself than its orbiting planets , so much so that it does not even rate a Sun tag . |
| 13 | There was , of course , a diversity of tenures — so much so that it can never be assumed that the customs of any two manors were identical , or even similar , unless perhaps they formed part of the same feudal honour , for example the barony of Lewes in Sussex , which had evolved a set of common customs . |
| 14 | According to Kuhn , the latter is characterized by total disagreement and constant debate over fundamentals , so much so that it is impossible to get down to detailed , esoteric work . |
| 15 | But the difficulty with this approach for the present case is that Woolwich was in reality suffering from no mistake at all , so much so that it was prepared to back its conviction that the revenue was acting ultra vires by risking a very substantial amount of money in legal costs in establishing that fact ; and , since the possibility of distraint by the revenue was very remote , the concept of compulsion would have to be stretched to the utmost to embrace the circumstances of such a case as this . |
| 16 | Thus , organisations are open systems , and transactions across the organisational boundary take place continuously , so much so that it can be difficult in practice to define exactly where an organisation stops and its environment begins . |
| 17 | After all , Papa was only just forty-one , and Mama was younger than that , and they were both so handsome that it was a wonder — or perhaps not — that they were so faithful to one another , so much so that it was almost a joke , Papa having been a great ladies ' man in his youth , she had discovered . |
| 18 | Human language is much more powerful — so much so that it has been suggested that the ability to speak is what really distinguishes people from animals . |
| 19 | So much so that it inspired Sophie to give several children 's classes in Norwich . |
| 20 | It was so long ago that it happened — it 's an everyday occurrence now , people battering and killing children . |
| 21 | It happened so long ago that it seems incredible that it is still affecting her . |
| 22 | Neither stand so far away that it can not pick up your voice . |
| 23 | I guess he figured the malais would be less alert in the torpor of the mid-afternoon , while darkness was still not so far away that it could n't cloak his escape . |
| 24 | There below you , so far away that it might be in Derbyshire , was a single toytown rooftop . |
| 25 | The language is so degraded now , itself so far out that it is impossible to take seriously . |
| 26 | SOME time ago , but not so far back that it can be dismissed as incidental , a belligerent centre-half , who needed very little encouragement in such nefarious matters , was instructed to discover how fast the visiting centre-forward could limp . |
| 27 | if these young men possessed traces of the Beastblood , it was from so far back that it could not be measured , and it was so slight that it could no longer hold the power to call upon the beasts for aid . |
| 28 | Edwin and Robert Grabhorn , who founded the Grabhorn Press in San Francisco in 1920 , worked so amicably together that it was said of them : ‘ When Ed 's away the shop goes to pieces ; when Bob 's away , Ed goes to pieces ’ ; but it would be a mistake to think that relationships between printers were always so harmonious . |