Example sentences of "so [adj] [noun sg] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although a fair breeze was picking up from the south-east , the harbour was aquarium calm , and the poignancy of this departure from a fairytale kingdom in our pirate prahu was marred , alas , by making so little headway that an hour and a half after cast-off we were still within spitting distance of the dock . |
| 2 | All I know is that by the time we had entered into residence again that autumn , we found we had made so little progress , and had remained so vague about our aims that , one evening , Harold Mason and I , who had seen more of each other than we did anyone else in the group , resolved to abandon the project altogether ; and I therefore wrote to Eliot , from whom I had not heard further , telling him that our plan had made so little headway that I felt it my duty to tell him not to trouble himself any more . |
| 3 | even after his marriage , to mow the lawn ; it gave her so little enjoyment that Clara wondered why she did not let it go to seed . |
| 4 | We Danes get so little sun that when it does shine on us we like to take full advantage of it . ’ |
| 5 | But sometimes it will have no effect on fitness , or so little effect that its fate is decided by chance and not by selection . |
| 6 | It needs to be emphasised that in marking intonation , only stressed syllables are marked ; this implies that intonation is carried entirely by the stressed syllables of a tone-unit and that the pitch of unstressed syllables is either predictable from that of stressed syllables or is of so little importance that it is not worth marking . |
| 7 | Thin foil wrappers , for example , contain so little material that it 's not worth the cost of recycling . |
| 8 | So that bit that goes there and that bit goes rou , put that back in again that 's right |
| 9 | So this car that was trying to get out was sitting there waiting and there was no driver in sight and people were rushing about all over the station trying to find the driver . |
| 10 | The furthest section of the aquarium is a mass of caves and rockwork and there 's so much activity that you could n't fail to be entranced , whether you 're a cichlid fan or not . |
| 11 | I developed so much skill that I could put together a 50 or 60 break and when I moved to York I played for the local Conservative club and reached the final of the York and District competition . |
| 12 | The bodice is quite small , but it 's actually not as , you read about eighteen inch waists , I mean this is nowhere near an eighteen inch waist , and although she would have worn corsets , she obviously did n't wear , you can see there , so much corseting that she could n't move , and that she could n't bend down if she had to . |
| 13 | He supports the view that under current law the Fed has so much leeway that it can honestly claim to be fulfilling the will of Congress no matter what policies it adopts . |
| 14 | Villa-Lobos produced so much music that critics occasionally tret him as a sausage factory , the scores dropping off the end of the belt without the composer paying much attention to them . |
| 15 | ‘ But there 's so much music that we 've heard throughout our lifetimes that it all shows up as an influence . |
| 16 | The big Gloucester builder was so badly battered in the World Cup campaign that he had to take six months off work — and he and self-employed forward Paul Rendall lost so much money that they successfully appealed for a hardship payment . |
| 17 | But by the end of last year Mr Yanagitani had lost so much money that he was unable to honour the investment guarantees he had given to his clients . |
| 18 | ‘ Would n't you like to know how Moll Sutton made so much money that she could get herself a shop ? ’ |
| 19 | The Quorn , opposing them , had rumbled Drew 's Exocet weapon , and spent the match giving Perdita so much hassle that she only hit the ball twice . |
| 20 | According to this theory the earlier generational pairing was abandoned because it led to so much inbreeding that people who practised the gens system were genetically more fit for natural selection and therefore survived better . |
| 21 | In practice , the fault-based ‘ facts ’ create so much antagonism that any prospect of reconciliation is severely undermined . |
| 22 | We 're gon na sing a song now in in closing that puts this challenge to us , it 's number one sixty one in the , Songs of Fellowship , it reminds us that we 're the ones , not the other person not the young person that shows so much promise that we think , not somebody else who is so much more gifted than we are , but here , it says , here I am available . |
| 23 | ‘ You 're at maximum lean angle now with so much grip that when it does step out it throws you a long way . |
| 24 | He had accepted so much work that he was committed to supply a hundred dancers for the pantomime season alone . |
| 25 | Enough work so that I could enjoy it but not so much work that I would be fed up . |
| 26 | Most business people receive so much correspondence that it is difficult for them to deal with all their correspondence immediately on receipt . |
| 27 | That famous dish of cheese stewed with white wine and flavoured very expensively , but very necessarily , with kirsch , has of late years received so much publicity that you can find a recipe for it in almost any cookery book or magazine you pick up . |
| 28 | ‘ In case my digestive juices were making so much noise that none of you heard what I said , I 'll repeat it . |
| 29 | For very form 's sake , and because , after all , Stair was his brother , he had stayed with the party through one act of a musical comedy at the Gaiety Theatre where they had made so much noise that their departure at the first interval must have pleased the audience which they had left behind , had gone to Quaggers — Quaglino 's — to dine — which meant drink — in a private room , and were now on their way to crown their evening 's pleasure by ‘ Pushing the boat out for Havvie ’ , Stair 's witticism . |
| 30 | This is why thresholds are needed : when cat is presented , numerous logogens will be excited , but in every case the excitation will not be high enough for the threshold level to be reached — except for the logogen for cat , which will receive so much evidence that its threshold will be reached . |