Example sentences of "so [adv] [adj] [that] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was named after a 19th century frontier poet who , according to the organiser of the competition , Don Nilsen , was a ‘ cross between Alfred , Lord Tennyson and Chief Sitting Bull ’ , and was ‘ so outstandingly bad that somehow she was good ’ . |
| 2 | She now felt so dangerously soporific that even the sneaking fear of Roman 's insidious effect on her could n't rouse her from this lovely torpor … |
| 3 | It was a question so typically feminine that somehow it released part of the tension in him . |
| 4 | On the work front , he took a step nearer to what he thought would be a move towards transferring his energies to the other side of the camera and his next work was so outlandishly eccentric that perhaps in the year 1998 it will be rediscovered and offered as a superb example of long forgotten pop art of thirty years earlier . |
| 5 | He would be so stunningly boring that even the bankers , account executives , product managers and stockbrokers he counted as his friends would start to back away from him . |
| 6 | Not at all ; good writing is so infernally difficult that even the most modest achievement ( and Pound 's claims for some of these poets are modest indeed ) should not go unacknowledged . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , the idea of education vouchers is … regarded as so politically explosive that even the Tory government has moved very cautiously . |
| 8 | She had something to tell him ; something so very important that even this delightful consummation of their desire must take second place |