Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] so [adv] [verb] [that] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The belief that different treatment methods are needed for and tried on different populations of sufferers does not stand up to critical examination : the stories of those in recovery from addictive disease through the Anonymous Fellowships are so immensely varied that it is quite clear that this population has not been selected in any way . |
| 2 | Their word-recognition skills are so finely developed that they may take insufficient notice of orthography while reading , and so develop poor memories of how words are constructed when it comes to spelling them . |
| 3 | For , in reality , the research and teaching activities are so closely interwoven that they are inseparable . |
| 4 | It would seem to be patently unfair to dismiss a driver with a perfect record prior to a momentary lapse which results in a court imposing a penalty , simply because the works ' rules are so rigidly drawn that the employer is deprived of exercising a discretion . |
| 5 | In certain families of butterflies the fore legs are so much reduced that there are only two pairs of functional legs . |
| 6 | The words were so softly spoken that she wondered at first if she 'd heard correctly . |
| 7 | He told me that , at that time , his anxieties were so deeply felt that he sought the advice of his doctor . |
| 8 | About 50 per cent of the animals were so sev-erely maimed that they had to be put down . |
| 9 | The writer uses many of the cons of the genre ; red and blue plumed knights , pale maidens in dark castles , full moons in star-washed skies , but her descriptions are so finely wrought that they transcend the fantasy formula . |
| 10 | HISTORICAL monuments are so badly signposted that many visitors are unaware of their existence , the Scottish Tourist Board 's chief executive , Tom Band , told a tourism conference yesterday , writes Alison Daniels . |
| 11 | The description of feelings and emotions are so well portrayed that the reader is able to feel with the character at every twist and turn of their lives . |
| 12 | The ‘ Lucy ’ poems have received a great deal of critical attention ( see , for example , F. R. Leavis in Revaluation ) ; it is because the ‘ Matthew ’ poems are so frequently ignored that I have chosen one of them for special comment . |
| 13 | But our affairs are so surprisingly situated that none knows , yet , whether it will be war or peace . |
| 14 | Mr Harding says his clocks are so well made that even those great timepiece makers the Swiss import them . |
| 15 | The two cardinals were so loudly applauded that it was clear they represented the wishes of the majority . |
| 16 | Ground-nests are so well concealed that predators can easily overlook them even when they are only a few feet away . |
| 17 | Large molecules , dimers and clusters have large moments of inertia , and consequently their rotational energy levels are so closely spaced that high-resolution spectroscopy is defeated . |
| 18 | Poets were so highly esteemed that it was said that a Delhi-wallah visiting a friend in another part of India would always take with him as a present not jewels or hookahs or fine weapons but a few of Mir Taqi Mir 's new verses copied on to a single sheet of paper . |
| 19 | The Sword Masters are so superlatively trained that they can wield these mighty swords as fast as an ordinary warrior can a normal sword . |
| 20 | The Sword Masters are so superlatively trained that they can wield their mighty swords as fast as an ordinary warrior can use a normal sword . |
| 21 | The Sword Masters are so superlatively trained that they can wield these mighty swords as fast as an ordinary warrior can use a normal sword . |
| 22 | In many higher insects the maxillae are so greatly modified that they no longer retain any evidences of their primitive structure . |
| 23 | The high frequency vibrations were so highly favoured that an infinite amount of energy would be present in them . |
| 24 | It 's tempting to think that Windows is so carefully organized that you do n't have to understand much about these processes at all . |
| 25 | I then slightly rocked the chair and my fingers were so badly crushed that , a few weeks later , my blackened finger nails fell out . |
| 26 | A survey has found that some hospitals are so badly designed that doctors spend four hours of every working day just walking from one ward to another . |
| 27 | At times tonal zones can be identified ; at others they are elusive , but in their sum tonalities are so well hidden that we can regard this as truly ‘ atonal ’ ( in the sense of being tonally obscure ) : It would be laborious to analyse this note by note , but there are several principal features which can be noted : |
| 28 | It is precisely because our bodies and fantasies are so closely linked that feeling you do n't conform to the current ‘ skinny ’ aesthetic can have such detrimental effects on the way you feel about your body and concomittantly , yourself . |
| 29 | Hedgerows existed in Saxon times and by the time Domesday was commissioned in 1086 the boundaries of parishes were so firmly fixed that William 's Norman officials were able to calculate within close limits , the exact area of thousands of settlements and their capacity to contribute to the royal exchequer ! |
| 30 | You would have to be a professional cobbler-up of sit-coms to give much credence to the available scenarios , but just in case , I suppose they are that : a ) the tests were so incompetently performed that even a baboon 's sample would have produced the same reading as was clocked by the three athletes identically ; b ) the three runners were having a joke at the testers ' expense ; c ) the German trio was deliberately testing the vigilance of the drug monitors at a relatively out-of-the-way venue , for reasons of their own ; d ) that the samples were not urine at all but a draught of refreshing Lucozade , tested in error . |