Example sentences of "so [adj] [conj] it [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | This camp was so strong that it remained as a major fortress for the Garonne region for centuries to follow . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She spoke with an accent so soft that it sounded as if an h was attached to each consonant . |
| 4 | For there was about her cage a silence and stillness so great that it seemed as if she had disappeared . |
| 5 | The examples of the behaviour of these men was so outrageous that it served as a warning to many people against this particular vice . |
| 6 | This is a clear example of the third basic kind of doubt , a kind so common that it qualifies as the twentieth-century doubt par excellence . |
| 7 | Some of the great controversies were so trivial that it seemed as if people had positively to search for something to quarrel about . |
| 8 | Why could a man 's voice in the night create an ache in a person so deep and so wide that it felt as if it could never be filled ? |