Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] so [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If at times Hope needed women to a point of desperate madness , so , at other times , he ached for wealth so badly that he heard his inner voice crooning for it , like the ululation of a gin-addicted street beggar , the sound suddenly there but as if never absent , an ancient and ineradicable longing . |
| 2 | And their mother had screwed up the tube of toothpaste so tightly that the lid would n't budge . |
| 3 | Dominic Wetherby 's right hand was clutching a packet of cheese so tightly that it was impossible to prise it out of the dead grip . |
| 4 | The youthful Rundell appears to have shown his aptitude for business so rapidly that within three or four years Pickett , admittedly increasingly preoccupied by aldermanic affairs on his way to becoming lord mayor in 1789 , made him a partner . |
| 5 | He was dressed and had smarmed his hair down with water so generously that the droplets ran down his forehead and soaked into his shirt . |
| 6 | The new mother will often throw herself into motherhood so fully that she forgets to give time to the marital relationship , which can suffer considerable damage as a result . |
| 7 | His successor , Alexander I , was known as ‘ the Fierce ’ , and there were legends of his suppressing an uprising by rebels from Moray so brutally that nobody survived to explain the reasons for their disaffection . |
| 8 | When waves crash over the reef , the fish swims into a crevice , sticks up its bony trigger and locks itself in place so firmly that neither ocean currents , hungry predators nor inquisitive skin divers can extract it . |
| 9 | People found that their savings became completely worthless and that salaries , once received , declined in value so rapidly that workers became desperate to convert currency into goods as soon as they could . |
| 10 | Now Fenna rose , higher and higher , and , holding all his power for one sharp second of perfect concentration , revealed to Maggie the crazy onrushing of the galaxy where everything spins through space so fast that the observer is locked in stillness . |
| 11 | Another possibility is that ischaemia progresses to ulceration so rapidly that it is unlikely to be observed in isolation . |
| 12 | In this chapter , less emphasis is given to child than to infant mortality and , also , to morbidity , partly because the influence of biological factors becomes considerably weaker during childhood and , partly because the number of observed deaths decreases by age so rapidly that inferences drawn from survey statistics become less significant and the mortality figures more erratic due to increasing sampling errors . |
| 13 | On 19 June 1841 the spire of St Michael 's was struck by lightning so severely that it had to be taken down and rebuilt at a cost of £84 , paid for by the Buxtons . |
| 14 | The extreme ultraviolet is part of what physicists call the vacuum ultraviolet , wavelengths shorter than about 200 nanometres which are absorbed by air so strongly that experiments have to be performed in a vacuum . |