Example sentences of "so [adj] that they [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was so strong that they hit my March 1994 revenue estimate . ’ |
| 2 | I 've heard of women so depressed that they spend their 40th birthday incommunicado , having a mini nervous breakdown in bed . |
| 3 | How persuasive the propaganda was is clear from the Latin war poems which even monks were then composing : some of these items were so popular that they found their way into school books for reading and glossing . |
| 4 | Some are so high that they enable their makers to detect the presence of a wire no thicker than a human hair stretched across their flyway . |
| 5 | Some enjoyed themselves so much that they formed their own team in the league . |
| 6 | It 's not so much that they undersell themselves in the UK , but they have to really pull their fingers out in the US . |
| 7 | A council they oppose so much that they give us one of the lowest grants per head in the country , poll tax cap us , take us to court over redundancy payments , criticise us over the Meadow Well management and so on . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Some expressly did not want their money to go for weapons ; others were said to be so thrilled that they wanted their names on the missiles . |
| 10 | Budgets should be sufficiently detailed to set clear targets for the managers responsible for carrying them out , but should not be so complex that they defeat their purpose of providing planning and control aids at the operating levels of the enterprise ; |
| 11 | With LSI chips it is possible to generate , and detect , elaborate codes so distinctive that they maintain their identity even amidst great amounts of electrical noise . |
| 12 | To circumvent an entrenched clergy and arouse the spirituality of those whose livings were so poor that they combined their priesthood with farming , shoemaking or fishing , he brought in ‘ lecturers ’ , unbeneficed clergy who provided a new preaching tradition , and organised sympathetic clergy into ‘ classes , or ‘ prophesyings ’ where the tenets of the new faith were discussed . |
| 13 | Those lost souls are so impoverished that they shave their heads in order that they may rub alcohol into them . |
| 14 | When he married my mother , Miss Jane Reed of Gateshead , the Reed family were so angry that they disinherited her . |
| 15 | The punishment , as it were , is so severe that they redouble their efforts to avoid encountering it again . |
| 16 | The restructuring charges that Digital Equipment Corp is taking with its year-end figures are so enormous that they swamp everything else , but even before them , business was lousy with a fourth-quarter operating loss of $188.1m before the restructuring charge of $1,500m . |
| 17 | It has been suggested that the term achnelith ( Greek , ‘ spray stones ’ ) should be used to describe pyroclastic particles which originated from lavas so fluid that they owe their shape more to the effects of surface tension than any other cause . |
| 18 | erm and it was so successful that they asked us again to do one from the United States |
| 19 | My parents and I saw her in the school play and they thought she was so wonderful that they invited her to lunch — to make me see what I could be if I did it right . |
| 20 | Anorexics , who will use all manner of subterfuge to avoid eating , often become so thin that they lose their monthly periods and consequently have difficulty becoming pregnant . |
| 21 | Though such rumours can not be proved , they are so endemic that they suggest something of the sort has been occurring . |