Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] be [adv] strong that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Friendship between domestic horses is well known , and the need for attachment is so strong that lone horses will become firm friends with cows , goats , pigs and even people . |
| 2 | Mrs Prentiss , the wife of the American consul in St Pierre wrote a letter home : ‘ The smell of sulphur is so strong that horses in the street stop and snort , and some of them drop in their harness and die of suffocation . |
| 3 | The waves of protest were so strong that I almost gave up there and then . |
| 4 | He glanced across at her : she had stopped playing and was watching them , and the resemblance of her to Martha was so strong that all the old bitterness and resentment flooded suddenly back . |
| 5 | The resistance to devolution was so strong that the government was forced to accept that the bills should be ratified by referenda . |
| 6 | Bettelheim and Zelan suggest that the child 's feeling for the event and for language was so strong that she was able to invent a new word spontaneously . |