Example sentences of "so [adj] [conj] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mother tells an anecdote about his wanting to join the Cubs , the junior branch of Boy Scout movement , when he was only four or five : much below the permitted age , but he was so insistent that the Cubmaster let him in . |
| 2 | During the winter of 1892 , it is recorded that the weather became so cold that the River Thames froze over at Chiswick . |
| 3 | This they refused , but the demand for the mauve dye was so great that the Perkins allowed Nicholson to provide supplementary supplies of the dye intermediates . |
| 4 | Domestic needs for resources are so great that the USSR can not afford to take many losses in Latin America for purely political purposes . |
| 5 | So intense was the dosaster , and so complicated that the Thames Valley Police have compiled a computer video showing what happened . |
| 6 | In practical terms , the concordat was not so important as the Hispano-US agreement . |
| 7 | CHANNEL 4 's Saturday night series TV Heaven which dishes up gems from the archives has been so successful that the BBC have jumped on the bandwagon . |
| 8 | Like the CDU in Schleswig-Holstein in 1961 , Labour in Scotland has long been able to win a majority of the seats — not so overwhelming as the CDU 's but still substantial — with an unimpressive average constituency vote : in 1987 , for example , the latter at only 42.4% sufficed to elect 50 , i.e. 69.4% , of Scotland 's 72 MPs . |
| 9 | This is why it is so vital that the EC 's half-hearted plans to deregulate its airlines after 1992 should be strengthened , not diluted . |
| 10 | Rosa would have envied Mary her powers of passion , the open expression of her grief and her love , if she had not been so certain that the Madonna was entirely on her side . |