Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] so [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it was running , the geyser roared so loudly that the place felt like a rocket in the middle of a take off . |
| 2 | If the trial goes so badly that the plaintiff wants to take the money out during it he must , as was decided in Gaskins v British Aluminium Co Ltd [ 1976 ] QB 524 , make an application to do so , and he must have the defendant 's consent even to make the application . |
| 3 | The current project will extend previous work by presenting the homograph primes so briefly that the subjects are not consciously aware of them . |
| 4 | The fingers moved so fast that Dougal found it hard to follow what was happening . |
| 5 | The lily grew so fast that each day it filled twice the amount of space that it did the day before . |
| 6 | Many of the animals swim so quickly that they do not stay in sight for long . |
| 7 | The wind came so swiftly that within half an hour we were reducing sail , taking water over the deck , and beginning to lumber into a building seaway . |
| 8 | The plan worked so well that insurers Lloyd 's paid out the £1.8 million claim . |
| 9 | There was no brand name on the yarn and the work twisted so badly that she could not wear it . |
| 10 | ‘ The abuse happened so often that I thought it was normal . |
| 11 | The roof , which is stripped of tiles , provides the water-supply ; the chimney smokes so thickly that the opposite wall is barely visible ; the few remaining window-panes are stained and the majority are stuffed with rags and paper . |
| 12 | ‘ The Federation grew so quickly that in 1962 provincial councils were established to cater for the influx of new clubs . |
| 13 | They almost certainly meet the needs of individual clients , but , like primary nursing , they may also fulfil the needs of the professionals concerned so successfully that the professionals , rather than the recipients of care , are really the most important clients of the system . |
| 14 | Yet , when the oriental came at him , the man moved so swiftly that he was once again almost taken by surprise . |
| 15 | Indeed , the situation changed so swiftly that there is almost no resemblance between the political maps of Spain for 1000 and 1050 , or again between those covering the times of the birth and death of El Cid . |
| 16 | The poison works so quickly that the victim rapidly succumbs and the snake is then safe to make its move . |
| 17 | She was pulled upwards with startling velocity , the sensation of flying through the air causing the world to tilt so precariously that she found herself clinging to fitzAlan like a drowning woman . |
| 18 | The edition for 1605 , no longer extant , was said to have foretold the Gunpowder Plot so accurately that it brought him under suspicion of complicity . |
| 19 | When in 1857 something new began to grow in Nova Scotia Gardens , financed by Angela Burdett-Coutts at the prompting of Dickens , the residents protested so vehemently that they had to be pacified by the architect and restrained by the law . |