Example sentences of "so [adj] that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the four books which Ransome set in East Anglia , the geographical details are so specific that the books can be used as accurate guides to the appropriate parts of Norfolk , Suffolk and Essex . |
| 2 | Even so , it took all his self-control not to lose his temper with Madge Grimsilk , for Therese , in the dark sapphire Rosa Ponselle gown , studded all over with flashing blue stones and with the huge peacock train spreading out behind her , was outstanding , so outstanding that the rest of the cast , pleased with their own designs but quick to recognize a ‘ star ’ outfit , burst into a little patter of applause . |
| 3 | The silence was so total that the auditorium might have been empty . |
| 4 | Yes , but it seemed so odd that the door was standing open . |
| 5 | The plane flew up the fjord , which seemed so narrow that the mountains were on both wing tips at the same time . |
| 6 | Novell is so rich that the Unix acquisition is relatively small potatoes . |
| 7 | For a moment or two she sat watching a breeze ruffle the calm surface of the hotel pool — the bright blue water was so inviting that the moment you got out you wanted to get straight back in again . |
| 8 | But when the Central Policy Review Staff ( the ‘ Think Tank ’ ) had suggested in the early eighties that they mount a full-scale investigation into the practices and abuses of the professions , they discovered that the influence of the lawyers upon Number 10 was so strong that the proposal was sat upon and then returned , with a suggestion they confine themselves to teachers and social workers . |
| 9 | If the focus process suggests one candidate in an earlier ‘ batch ’ than another , we can say that it is imposing a strong preference between those candidates ; so strong that the second one will only be considered at all if the reasoner decides the first is completely implausible . |
| 10 | The resistance to devolution was so strong that the government was forced to accept that the bills should be ratified by referenda . |
| 11 | Eventually , when the star has shrunk to a certain critical radius , the gravitational field at the surface becomes so strong that the light cones are bent inward so much that light can no longer escape ( Fig. 6.1 ) . |
| 12 | The concentration of the cast was so strong that the mood was well maintained . |
| 13 | Those belonging to Pan American were called Clippers ; they flew the Pacific and the Atlantic and , when storms were violent , they flew so low that the spray from the waves broke over the aircraft . |
| 14 | However , the number of people who return to education once they have left school or college is so low that the age of finishing full-time education is often used as a simple indicator . |
| 15 | The Montgomerie family finances continued on their downwards spiral until , in 1925 , they were so low that the contents of Eglinton Castle had to be auctioned off , including the suit of armour bought by the 13th Earl for the Tournament . |
| 16 | The lintel is so low that the only man who can enter is the man who is down on his knees . |
| 17 | Life expectancy is so low that the average life span of men just before we got here ( in the last quarter of the seventeenth century ) was 29.6 years . |
| 18 | Yet the All Black confidence and ability to dominate had sunk so low that the three minnows all had parts of the match when they outplayed the All Blacks with embarrassing ease . |
| 19 | Now gradually the energy level is so low that the in although the insulin level is there , there 's no sugar for it to work with , so now your casualty will start showing signs of too little sugar . |
| 20 | And when the rain stops , the beavers may have to build them up again to prevent the level of the lake from falling so low that the entrance to the lodge is exposed . |
| 21 | Cessation of growth is most likely to result from starvation , which may arise because : the whelks eat out their food supply , or the supply fails for some other reason ( perhaps as a result of pollution Bryan ( 1969 ) ; wave action dislodges the whelks and transports them away from their food supply , or prevents them from feeding in some other way ( Cowell and Crothers , 1970 ) ; the temperature drops so low that the whelks become inactive for a long period ( Feare , 1970a ) . |
| 22 | The danger is , of course , that the price may be so low that the business fails to generate sufficient revenue to cover its operating and/or capital costs . |
| 23 | In practice the probability of such words occurring in adjacent positions is so low that the problem is negligible . |
| 24 | Recovery will come when the country 's creditors decide that the return on money in the bank has fallen so low that the price of assets has become cheap . |
| 25 | Recall that it exists where the interest rate is so low that the demand for money becomes perfectly interest-elastic . |
| 26 | However , on rare occasions — perhaps twice before in recorded history — a change occurs so profound and so far-reaching that the entire orientation of society is altered completely in a relatively short period . |
| 27 | The Secretary of State seems to think that we should be so grateful that the Government have promised that the poll tax will go that we should not look too closely at what will replace it . |
| 28 | If the horse is thumped by the farrier , or we belt it with a cane , the horse is likely to become so upset that the chances are we will never be able to shoe the horse ! |
| 29 | The shortage of housing is so acute that the vast Cairene cemeteries , known as the City of the Dead , host a population of squatters thought to number over a million . |
| 30 | Will there come a time when that might become so acute that the Minister would be prepared to consider an opt-out as opposed to an opt-in donor system ? |