Example sentences of "[vb -s] so [adv] that it " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in so doing , we must , of course , be aware of the risk of setting a standard which goes so far that it would mean that others — for example , the senile or the mentally handicapped , whom we would wish to treat if they were ill — were also included by it . |
| 2 | Alas , there is no way this can be overcome but it occurs so rarely that it is not in itself an outstanding problem . |
| 3 | This , of course , happens so quickly that it appears that the letters are displayed as a direct mechanical response to the keypress . |
| 4 | The whirligig sometimes moves so fast that it overtakes its own ripples , and then any slight slope in the surface alerts it to an obstacle . |
| 5 | The fly on top is on the contrary quite agitated , jerking tremendously , then convulsively , putting out its left foreleg to whip , or maybe to stroke some sort of reaction out of the fly beneath , which , however , remains so still that it seems dead . |
| 6 | A conservative estimate is that , in the absence of natural selection , DNA replicates so accurately that it takes five million replication generations to miscopy I per cent of the characters . |
| 7 | To my mind , it begins so well that it could easily be mistaken for a translation of an eighth-century hermit 's verse , composed in a beehive hut by a contented holy man of Old Ireland . |