Example sentences of "so [det] [noun sg] that [pron] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 All I know is that by the time we had entered into residence again that autumn , we found we had made so little progress , and had remained so vague about our aims that , one evening , Harold Mason and I , who had seen more of each other than we did anyone else in the group , resolved to abandon the project altogether ; and I therefore wrote to Eliot , from whom I had not heard further , telling him that our plan had made so little headway that I felt it my duty to tell him not to trouble himself any more .
2 ‘ But there 's so much music that we 've heard throughout our lifetimes that it all shows up as an influence .
3 We 're gon na sing a song now in in closing that puts this challenge to us , it 's number one sixty one in the , Songs of Fellowship , it reminds us that we 're the ones , not the other person not the young person that shows so much promise that we think , not somebody else who is so much more gifted than we are , but here , it says , here I am available .
4 There are shallow inlets and islands in the Portsmouth area , but the main river valleys , although aggraded in their lower reaches , are not rias , presumably because the rivers have brought down so much alluvium that they have filled any rias which may have been present , whereas the rivers of Pembroke and south-west Ireland have been unable to achieve this .
5 We rehearsed so much stuff that it 's given us plenty of music to play around with on the tour .
6 It was n't what he said but more the way he said it , imbuing the words with so much meaning that she glared at him .
7 We realise that this prospectus may not answer all your questions , or even that it contains so much information that it leaves you confused .
8 And although I have occasionally considered a larger tank in the house ( I have a 48″ × 15″ × 15″ ) , accommodating it would involve so much disruption that I have never bitten the bullet .
9 This pattern of land distribution reflects such great disparities and brings about so much poverty that it represents one of the major problems that agrarian reform has addressed .
10 Right , that 's it , that 'll do , I wo n't go any further and I can get the other things in well we had er , we had an aluminium friend , a double glazed enormous window over our landing and it was , the aluminium was so cold and it was conden there was so much condensation that we had a new window P V C put in , but I tried to sell this other window , cos it was beautiful you see , nothing wrong with it except you know , but nobody wanted it and I kept it and I had it for about two years standing outside and then I thought I can use that and I cut , it was a three section , three lots of glass all in one , cut down , divide it into two and one , and got myself a plant house under the erm
11 We were playing with so much arrogance that it needed something like that to make us play .
12 It 's hardly ever reported in the Third World and er taking the facts that we 've just been talking about into account , it would be tempting to see anorexia as related to conflicts about the beginning of a young woman 's reproductive life because what normally happens is , and has certainly happened in the only case of this that occurred in my family , the young woman in question lost so much weight that she stopped cycling and in fact erm puberty changes went into reverse , she actually regressed , she started puberty and er she had this anorexia problem and she stopped cycling and , and all her body changes reversed , she went back to pre-puberty again erm because of oh no , oh no it did n't , she lost her body hair and stuff yeah , er her , her , her hormonal changes .
13 He lost so much weight that he wore two suits , one on top of the other , because he despised the sign of toll .
14 He poured out so much passion that she melted against him , completely willing , enslaved , and his hand moved impatiently to the zip of her dress , moving it down until the cool night air on her skin made her shiver .
15 One cello player , at least , swept his bow with so much passion that he seemed likely to roll off the platform .
16 There was so much snow that it seemed impossible that this was not the natural surface of the earth .
17 So there will be a third album , because there 's a real big demand for it , plus , I 've got so much material that I want to get out .
18 Among them , the suggestion that during surgery her head was n't properly supported , or that a surgical hammer used in the operation was applied with so much force that it damaged her spinal cord .
19 A leading Right-On thinker , she had co-written the Beyond The Fragments book which had started as a mere pamphlet , but had attracted so much interest that it had been upgraded and sold an extremely respectable 20,000 copies in paperback , having a major effect on its earnest readership .
20 And it is important that the background has got some interest , but no so much interest that you 've forgotten about the subject .
21 She withdrew , and Claudia opened the door , steeling herself to greet Roman without a trace of the emotion that made her want to run out of the flat , away from the two people she loved most and who were causing her so much pain that she wanted to die .
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