Example sentences of "[art] [noun] be so [adj] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The porter was so terrified that he fainted . |
| 2 | Moreover , the supporters of Morgan add , this should not lead to unmeritorious acquittals , because juries will not allow bogus defences to succeed : in Morgan itself the House of Lords was satisfied that the basis for the defence was so weak that a correctly directed jury would have found the defendants guilty . |
| 3 | When a national newspaper first published Mrs Travers ' views , the response was so great that a whole page had to be given over to readers ' letters . |
| 4 | Originally scheduled to be for a morning only , the response was so enthusiastic that the meeting grew to an all-day event with a full billing of committed speakers . |
| 5 | Lieutenant John Tenwolde , who is leading the investigation in the US , said : ‘ The allegations surrounding the Spiros are so serious that we can not discount them . |
| 6 | The crowds were so large that , by the third year , Hawes Silver Band were engaged to play . |
| 7 | The prince was so impressed that he had a Polish translation made , brought a scenic engineer from Mantua for a ‘ fisher idyll ’ Galatea produced at the Warsaw court , and on his accession to the throne in 1632 built a theatre in his palace where a whole series of Italian operas specially composed by members of the Royal Chapel was given . |
| 8 | The variety was so wide that no generalisations can be made , except to note a lack of books explicitly on the description of language . |
| 9 | But conditions in the mines are so appalling that if the Furus were not under the influence of the drug they would undoubtedly refuse outright to go below ground . ’ |
| 10 | Mrs McGuffog said : ‘ The blow was so fierce that Gala was killed by the brain hitting the back of the skull . |
| 11 | But I knocked you to the floor , and the blow was so hard that it made my hand throb for hours afterwards . |
| 12 | His only complaint is that the technique is so simple that other researchers will be able to duplicate it quickly enough to keep up with his group . |
| 13 | Brian Petley , who is head of basic metrology at Britain 's National Physical Laboratory , says the technique was so sensitive that Professor Dehmelt was able to measure the mass of the proton relative to the electron with an accuracy of one part in 100 million . |
| 14 | Of course I realise that the fallacy is so crude that it would be below the dignity of any academic economist to soil himself with such much . |
| 15 | If two tailless Manx cats are mated , the kittens are so deformed that they nearly always die before birth . |
| 16 | ‘ But the problem about heroin is that the money is so good that even the good people do it ’ . |
| 17 | The smell was so all-pervasive that nothing consumed within half a mile of it could taste of anything not pertaining to dog . |
| 18 | The Crown 's practical arguments were that the case was so rare that it could not call for a fundamental reformulation of the law and that it was impossible for their lordships to set limits on the application of the principle which , being a matter of policy , was a question for the legislature . |
| 19 | The case was so complicated that it has already generated at least two books ( Crouch and Marquart 1989 , Martin and Ekland-Olson 1987 ) and more might be on the way . |
| 20 | A second group is at the opposite extreme of breakage , with no mandibles intact , and this includes the mammalian carnivores , the little owl and most of the diurnal raptors not included in the main analysis ( not included because the damage is so great that hardly any recognizable bone is left in the pellets : see Table 2.1 ) . |
| 21 | Yet the field is so rich that new insights emerge year after year which , alas , are largely restricted to specialists . |
| 22 | The sales potential for technologydriven , ultra-real pornographic and violent experiences via the computer is so great that computer engineers are furiously designing software that will satisfy an otaku 's ‘ sexual ’ needs . |
| 23 | It might seem as though the hypothesis is so slippery that it can not be falsified . |
| 24 | By November 1927 the patent application had been rejected on the grounds that the description was so sketchy that ‘ an expert is unlikely to be able to practise the invention ’ . |
| 25 | All the houses were so small that er th nearly everybody 'd take their chairs out in the evening time in the in the summer . |
| 26 | The election is so close that the slightest shift in voter opinion during the next 80 to 90 hours not only could , but probably would , determine the outcome . |
| 27 | They further assert that in the course of the pay-off Commissioner Zen 's identity was revealed and that the gang were so incensed that they assaulted him . |
| 28 | Does it matter that the present is so substantial that it is a powerful inducement to marry ? |
| 29 | The first was that a case such as the present was so rare that it could not of itself call for a fundamental reformulation of the underlying principle — a point which I find unimpressive , when I consider that our task is essentially to do justice between the parties in the particular case before us . |
| 30 | The Russians are so bureaucratic that any gems of intelligence they might cull are lost in a mass of trivial dross . |