Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] so [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hotspur 's lance , steadily lowered as he came , selected its target , the foremost knight on the tallest horse , and struck the uplifted shield so strongly that the shock flattened its bearer back upon his horse 's crupper ; but he kept his seat gamely , rolling under the lance as it flashed by , to recover dizzily and swing a vehement though ineffective stroke with his sword , before the lurch and sway of the press carried him away . |
| 2 | Vincent Canby in The New York Times felt that the film was often ‘ not terribly funny , at just those moments when it tries the hardest , and it sometimes wears its social concerns so blatantly that they look like warpaint ’ , but concluded that it ‘ is an important movie by one of our most interesting directors ’ . |
| 3 | In this way , the polyps synchronise the release of their sexual cells so precisely that the event occurs at the same hour on a particular night each year , turning the sea into a multi-coloured reproductive soup . |
| 4 | One or two stretch the notion of individual guilt so far that they embark on self-mutilation . |
| 5 | She held her arms across her aching breasts so tightly that her fingers dug into her flesh , but whether in an effort to contain herself or as a substitute for someone else 's embrace , she did n't know . |
| 6 | Suddenly his hand moved , fastening around one slender wrist so tightly that Isabel 's bones cracked . |
| 7 | Inside the whale , for three days and three nights , Jonah prayed to the Lord and swore his future obedience so convincingly that God ordered the fish to vomit up the penitent . |
| 8 | Julia 's own needs rose to answer that despairing cry so powerfully that all her carefully nurtured detachment melted away . |
| 9 | We biologists have assimilated the idea of genetic evolution so deeply that we tend to forget that it is only one of many possible kinds of evolution . |
| 10 | In this he described how , by splitting a parallelepiped of calcite spar along its shorter diagonal , and then cementing the halves together with Canada balsam ( having a refractive index intermediate between those of the doubly refracting calcite spar ) , he was able to separate the two emergent beams so widely that they could be used independently . |
| 11 | In pharmaceuticals , firms can use the power of their technological oligopoly so blatantly that there has been a policy reaction by many governments . |
| 12 | Governor Clinton , in other words , is a man who could well be accused of wanting power so badly that he is , quite literally , prepared to kill for it . |
| 13 | In fact I 'm told we ran the three-day week so well that it did n't make enough impact on the country ; they did n't realize the crisis and thought they would n't support Ted Heath . |
| 14 | But there are many teachers in many schools who feel the need to break out of the cycle of crisis management and low morale so keenly that they are prepared to make those commitments . |
| 15 | As risen apes we have come to dominate this small planet so effectively that we are in danger of smothering it . |
| 16 | If Irish industry is indeed managing its 17 000 out of 20 000 tonnes production of toxic wastes so efficiently that it pollutes neither land nor water then Ireland ought , by right , to become top European advisor on wastes handling . |
| 17 | Some of those who had absconded , and some women who were brought before the Board , were taken to the magistrate 's and on the Sunday evening after Christmas the house was in a very disturbed state so far that we did not think it prudent to assemble for Divine Worship . ’ |
| 18 | We are unlikely to follow the example of the Japanese , who tax their second-hand cars so punitively that you would be grateful to buy new . |
| 19 | Then again , the pillbox was on private land so maybe that had n't been a problem . |
| 20 | If ‘ story ’ suggests a narrative sequence towards which Double Or Nothing is gesturing , Federman it the same time questions each fictional possibility so thoroughly that the only reliable sequence becomes the narrative voice which is constantly shifting in person and tone . |
| 21 | She was silent and acquiescent , however , so he climbed in and drove her round several blocks , just for the joy of it , taking the sharp corners so fast that her tyres shrieked in protest . |
| 22 | Some argue that the reason is that MI5 has been penetrated by Russian intelligence so deeply that even its own Director General , Sir Roger Hollis , was a Russian mole and therefore every investigation has been frustrated . |
| 23 | In this case their prediction model mimics the behaviour of the correct model so closely that there is no incentive for them to seek out further information to refine their predictions . |
| 24 | Charles the Younger wasted the region of the Upper Elbe so thoroughly that the Czechs submitted , and agreed to pay tribute to the Franks . |
| 25 | This had now been soldered to the main building so well that you could n't see the join . |
| 26 | She disliked the wretched man so intensely that she did n't care if she never had to see him again . |