Example sentences of "[coord] so [adj] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Touching : We all know when something is so hot that it burns our fingers or so sharp that it hurts to touch it — but how much do we think about the other things we touch ? |
| 2 | It must not be so different that unity is destroyed , or so similar that it gives no feeling of change . |
| 3 | There are people whose early experience of bodily closeness , intimacy and care has been so uncomfortable or so traumatic that they dare not risk a repetition of such pain . |
| 4 | This time I studied it in good sunlight , because some of the colours are so dim or so dark that one can hardly see what the pattern is all about . |
| 5 | But it 's all for the rest of my life , an important fact for me , and to say , OK , I do n't need it any more , it has to be a very strong and bad change inside Kirov , I will be so upset or so unoptimistic or so helpless that I will feel I can not do anything more . |
| 6 | ‘ So he went off in such a hurry or so worried that he forgot to cancel . |
| 7 | The product itself , for example , though useful may be so commonplace or so inexpensive that it has little intrinsic interest outside its own application . |
| 8 | The work being too demanding and impossible for them to cope with or so undemanding that they under achieve becoming bored or disaffected . |
| 9 | Perhaps by then the Government may have some strategy that will provide work for the million or so unemployed that it overlooks while compiling the official figures . |
| 10 | When she lifted her head , the sun made everything very black or so white that it hurt her eyes . |
| 11 | We were n't certain — we wanted a sensible sum for these features — not so high the human ear could n't hear it — nor so low that any kind of practical arrangement was impossible for our chosen correspondents . |
| 12 | When he spoke again his voice was warm and deep , and so tender that all the tears spilled over and slid down her cheeks . |
| 13 | However , on rare occasions — perhaps twice before in recorded history — a change occurs so profound and so far-reaching that the entire orientation of society is altered completely in a relatively short period . |
| 14 | Even if teachers were given the time and opportunity to develop their professional lives in the ways they felt most suitable , the questions and dilemmas that face them are so many and so deep that it is indeed a daunting task . |
| 15 | The illness and its treatment had left him bald and so weak that he could hardly stand , but throughout the spring and summer he gradually regained his fitness . |
| 16 | His lips were so thick that they met the end of his nose and so wide that they became lost in his side-whiskers . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | IN THE 19th century , cancer of the cervix was so common and so deadly that it was known simply as ‘ the woman 's disease ’ . |
| 19 | The engagements most undertake are so short and so intermittent that they would not acquire sufficient service to gain any substantial employment rights . |
| 20 | Sometimes they would stroll under the leafy canopies of the Mardyke , where the river was not a river at all but a stream — his father used to say that you could n't even call it a branch of the Lee , perhaps a twig at best — often dried-up in summer and so narrow that he could nearly have jumped across it if he had been allowed ; at other times their route would take them down the Marina where the river was a broad rink-like expanse that copied in shimmering reflections the haughty hills of Montenotte drawing themselves up from its other side . |
| 21 | Right alongside were the bows of a ship ; they seemed enormous and so close that I thought the bilge water would splash on our deck . |
| 22 | Members of such groups are usually very friendly and so grateful that people turn up to their performances that they are quite often there to smile and chat to visitors at the door . |
| 23 | The effect is strikingly original and so successful that several more rooms have been decorated in the same way . |
| 24 | ‘ The worst thing about cocaine is that once it has exhausted all the dopamine from the brain , then what 's left is a black hole of depression so big and so awful that not all the misery in the world can fill it . |
| 25 | ‘ This is one of the Australian birds ’ , noted Gould in his Handbook , ‘ which particularly attracted the notice of the earlier voyagers to that country , by nearly every one of whom it is mentioned as being very plentiful on all the islands in Bass 's Straits , and so tame that it might be easily knocked down with sticks or even captured by hand ; during my sojourn in the country I visited many of the localities above mentioned , and found that , so far from being still numerous , it is almost extirpated ; I killed a pair on Isabella Island , one of a small group near Flinder 's Island , on the 12th January 1839 . ’ |
| 26 | The scenes of horror and infamy on board of a man-of-war are so many and so great that I think they must rather disgust a mind than allure it . ’ |
| 27 | It 's so straight and so sharp that it works perfectly as a blade , but when you 've finished you can just grind it up into the ground . ’ |
| 28 | The law is so rigorous and so thorough that it would be difficult to misunderstand the import of the statutory legislation which governs the property of the Palestinian Arabs who fled their homes in 1948 and who — by the same law — can not return . |
| 29 | You would be so shocked and so disgusted that whatever faint chance of your return is left would disappear for ever . |
| 30 | Like some fantastic prison , where you could drink so deeply and so long that you forgot your bondage . |