Example sentences of "so great [that] [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For pregnant women , or those who have just had babies , the pressures are sometimes so great that they become mentally disturbed . |
| 2 | The dinner was a gloomy affair — ‘ … my guests ' dejection was so great that they turned away from food and drink ’ — but then came the telegram from the King . |
| 3 | This is of course not possible , and we should rather conclude that any intermediate , formed by the initial attack of Cl - on , must have no significant absorption in the spectral range studied , or that its concentration is never so great that it contributes significantly to the spectrum . |
| 4 | In the naked fear of falling in a space so huge that she did not know whether she was falling up or down , inward or outward , she met a fear so great that it burned away forever all the other fears . |
| 5 | He loved her too much even to be able to imagine such a thing ; Pavel 's was the love of Judas , a devotion so great that it encompassed even betrayal . |
| 6 | ‘ On that particular day , we arrived there about ten o'clock , and I refused at first to go any farther ; the charm of those gardens and their flowers was so great that I wanted never to leave them . |
| 7 | She had seen him only once during the past three years — two bleak weeks ago at the funeral , when her grief had been so great that she had barely registered his presence . |
| 8 | After a few days , her hunger becomes so great that she goes away to feed , leaving her young in the charge of others . |