Example sentences of "be so bad that the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This problem has been so bad that the company has returned to temporarily producing its old-style model to bridge the gap . |
| 2 | There are now 100 families in the town living in bed and breakfast hotels and more than 60 placed in hostels the situation is so bad that the council has been unable to move anyone off its waiting list for almost two months . |
| 3 | The position is so bad that the sheriff officers are afraid to go into homes . |
| 4 | Even President-elect Bill Clinton could not contain his dismay last week after IBM Corp announced that business in Europe was so bad that the company would at best break even in the current quarter — and prescribed only more of the same medicine that has so signally failed to save the situation up to now . |
| 5 | In 1892 , the Corporation itself took over the running of the tramway , and in the following year the situation was so bad that the current was switched off and the cars pulled by horses . |
| 6 | The intention at that time had been for Ian and myself to return to Uist by the ferry in the afternoon but the weather was so bad that the ferryman decided not to chance his luck in the storm . |