Example sentences of "so [adv] [adj] that [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the extreme , some nuclear waste was so intensely radioactive that it had to be kept isolated from the human environment for thousands of years . |
| 2 | Yes , there was something sexual between the two of them now , but any interest he had felt six years ago would have been connected solely with the phenomenon of the awe he had inspired , so overwhelmingly intense that it had reduced her to awkward , agonised silence every time he was around . |
| 3 | Oh , yes — the thought of escaping back to Coniston was so utterly desirable that she had a job not to rush off and start packing her case . |
| 4 | This was so nearly true that she had the grace to feel slightly ashamed of herself . |
| 5 | He looked so comically apologetic that she had to burst out laughing . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , the Budget was so unbelievably boring that it had the opposite effect . |
| 7 | When he had met Ivy at Crepi 's dinner party her appearance had struck him as so wilfully bizarre that he had written it off as a freak effect , as though all her luggage had been lost and she 'd had to raid the oddments put aside for collection by the missionary brothers . |
| 8 | In terms of Israeli-US relations , the issue was so potentially divisive that it had been largely ignored ; the issue never formally arose during the whole of US President Reagan 's eight years in office . |