Example sentences of "so [adj] that [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At their disposal were a ludicrously inadequate army and an administrative machine so primitive that one observer in the early eighteenth century alleged that the tiny Italian city-state of Lucca possessed a larger civil service than they . |
| 2 | The crash was so violent that one coach was flung into a nearby street . |
| 3 | Is the situation so serious that twenty-four hour care must be considered , whether the person is at home or considering going in to a residential home ? |
| 4 | The swords met again in another violent discharge of magic and , at the same time , Lio ! rt brought his other hand down against Rincewind 's head , jarring him so hard that one foot jerked out of its ring and flailed desperately . |
| 5 | The attendance was so large that five overflow halls had to be used . |
| 6 | The demand for carnivores like the Venus Fly Trap and Sundew is so great that one nursery alone now stocks thirty thousand plants . |
| 7 | Predictably , the Koons exhibit dominated attention at a festival that included work from scores of internationally renowned , but less flashy artists , and even proved so provocative that one fanatic ended up slashing each painting with a knife , some four months after the show opened . |
| 8 | After three months of this slow starvation , one of the boys told the others he was so hungry that one night he might eat the boy who slept next to him . |
| 9 | This combination was so successful that one dealer exclaimed indignantly ‘ These prices are what I would charge myself . ’ |
| 10 | Although this size is larger than those granules advocated in Chronic Diseases ( 200 to a grain ) they are still so small that one drop of the alcoholic LM 1 liquid can completely wet at least 500 of them . |
| 11 | I was so worried that one evening I went to see Dr Sambataro . |
| 12 | And he says that is why he finds it so galling that one episode in the new series has trees growing right up to the line , which would never happen and describes how one of the engines used to stop to enjoy the view . |