Example sentences of "so [adj] [coord] [noun] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her eyes were so wide-set and widely-opened that they consumed half her face in a dazzling pool of greenish-blue radiance . |
| 2 | No doubt Lenin was mistaken in assuming that administrative functions ( control and accounting ) were so simple and routine that they could be accomplished without special professional training and experience . |
| 3 | Of course , he was probably just a smoothie , so suave and slick that he could keep about three million women on the line at once . |
| 4 | Now we have video , a complex technology which is so automated and fool-proofed that it enables anyone , whether technically minded or not , to record moving pictures to a standard which can be very high indeed . |
| 5 | It is so small and mobile that it could easily be hidden , and it can carry nuclear or conventional warheads . |
| 6 | ‘ Pretty things , ’ wrote Sawyer and Darton of illustrated books in general , ‘ pleasant to fondle , more ready to display to a bibliophile those tiny points of an exquisite technique over which it is legitimate to gloat … the spot of ink adjusted on a Corinthian 's cheek to a thousandth of an inch , or a black line so thin and firm that you can almost see the metal caressing it on to the honest untimbered white paper . ’ |
| 7 | Her speeches were so dull and rambling that her nervous advisers tried to stop newsmen from recording them . |
| 8 | Squids are so intelligent and swift-moving that they must find little difficulty in avoiding man 's clumsy deep-sea dredges . |