Example sentences of "so [adj] [conj] it [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not so hypocritical as it sounds for Godwin hated violence and war . |
| 2 | When it was midnight and Rodrigo was fast asleep , the leper breathed against him between his shoulders , and that breath was so strong that it passed through him , even through his breast ; and he awoke , being astounded , and felt for the leper by him , and found him not ; and he began to call him , but there was no reply . |
| 3 | This camp was so strong that it remained as a major fortress for the Garonne region for centuries to follow . |
| 4 | The appeals court found that the Koons copying of the photo was so complete that it went beyond the bounds of the ‘ fair use ’ doctrine , which allows artists , authors and journalists to ‘ quote ’ from other works . |
| 5 | His triumph was so complete that it seemed to him that he must surely radiate some evident joy . |
| 6 | You need to ask yourself what is so different when it comes to talking to an audience ? |
| 7 | I mean that the data on spontaneous abortion is so unmistakable that it seems to me that artificially induced abortions are just a continuation with modern technology of something women have always done anyway discriminate against their ab about their offspring , sometimes discriminating against them . |
| 8 | The tension in the room was so high that it flowed like an invisible electric charge . |
| 9 | These units could then be regarded as repeatedly subdivisible to the point that the final dimension is so minute that it stands in the same relation to the highest human capacity for feeling as does the single cell to the supreme achievement of cellular development , which is the physical human being . |
| 10 | But knowledge develops unevenly ; Dewey 's luck was not so conspicuous when it came to , say , radio engineering , where relatively simple new subjects end up with a classification symbol of twelve digits or more . |
| 11 | Alice Wilson 's cellar dwelling with its brick floor ‘ so damp that it seemed as if the last washing could never dry up ’ would not be far distant from the Davenports ' if the nature of that ‘ dampness ’ were defined . |
| 12 | He concluded by stating that he had been ‘ compelled to trench on political questions as well as economic — because I feel we are approaching a situation that is so grave that it compares with the War , when we were compelled to act together in self-defence ’ . |
| 13 | The style of the figures is manifestly provincial and need not be so early as it looks at first glance , but it can hardly be after the mid century . |
| 14 | He leaned his forehead against the stone , and was suddenly so weary and so content that it seemed to him there was nothing left to be desired in life , and nothing more he need strive for . |
| 15 | I WAS married four years ago to a girl I loved very much , but I lost her to another man , because I was so incompetent when it came to having sex . |
| 16 | How could a man so intelligent in every other way be so obtuse when it came to ordinary everyday living ? |
| 17 | It is so obvious that it sounds like ‘ common sense ’ . |
| 18 | Dishonesty and partiality are never mentioned in expert clauses as factors whose presence the parties agree would be sufficient to upset a decision : it is so obvious that it goes without saying , and is therefore an implied term . |
| 19 | She spoke with an accent so soft that it sounded as if an h was attached to each consonant . |
| 20 | The drizzle was so fine that it amounted to fog and he had to drive slowly . |
| 21 | Ash is produced when the coal is burnt and has proved to be something for the salvation for many plants and animals the ash is so fine that it has to be turned into a slurry and put into the to settle out these can be up to eight years during which time it becomes none the less but an artificial mud flat quickly colonized by weeds , pioneers crucial to the complex way of life in our natural world But for bird-watchers it is the bird that attracted to these artificial mud flats that are the most exciting development within the boundaries of these power station nature reserves . |
| 22 | David Lloyd , his captain at Lancashire , tells a story that once in a Gillette Cup match against Gloucestershire at Old Trafford , Clive Lloyd edged a ball from Mike Procter so hard that it went for six . |
| 23 | Mine was so tight that it cut into the skin . |
| 24 | It was so cold that it burnt her , so cold that it stuck to her fingers . |
| 25 | ‘ Demand was so good that it expanded from there , and George was happy to act as consultant , in return for being given some ground space at Ramsey to grow on Bonsai — his current passion . ’ |
| 26 | Food never tastes so good as it does after a long day 's hike . |
| 27 | For there was about her cage a silence and stillness so great that it seemed as if she had disappeared . |
| 28 | The X-ray flux is so great when it emerges from the machine 's vacuum that it causes the air to fluoresce and , if focused , it can burn holes in paper rather like a powerful laser beam . |
| 29 | But she is n't so dependable when it comes to housework . |
| 30 | In the American flickers , close cousins to woodpeckers , the tongue is so long that it extends beyond the eye-socket into the upper beak , entering through the right nostril so that the bird can only breathe through its left . |