Example sentences of "so [adv] that [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Labour Party , or its thinking wing , is polishing its credentials so remarkably that Mr Smith 's team will look quite different when they get to meet us all again in the polling booth . |
| 2 | I beat the school 's fastest runner in the 100 metres sprint , breaking the finishing tape just before the other runners manage to leave their starting blocks ; I smash the school long jump record by 15 metres ( give or take a metre ) and I hurl the discus so far that Miss Harrison , the teacher in charge of the event , has to get her battered Mini from the car park to retrieve the discus for the next competitor ( who manages a measly 25cm ) . |
| 3 | This is the clearest evidence so far that Mr Gorbachev is willing to change his government 's plans in order to share authority with the federation council — the first step towards wider talks . |
| 4 | The plan worked so well that insurers Lloyd 's paid out the £1.8 million claim . |
| 5 | He rushed towards her so violently that Miss Fogerty put out her hands to grasp his shoulders before he should butt her to the ground . |
| 6 | The Irish view the situation so seriously that Ruari Quinn , employment and enterprise minister , flew to Boston yesterday to meet Digital 's president and chief executive , Robert Palmer , in a last-ditch attempt to rescue the Galway plant . |