Example sentences of "be so [adv] [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stars are so far away that they appear to us to be just pinpoints of light . |
| 2 | Notions of law and morality seemed to be so far apart that the two sides were talking different languages . |
| 3 | Conversely , you should n't be so far away that you can not close quickly enough . |
| 4 | A government promise to liberalise prices next year is so far just that : a promise . |
| 5 | There 's so much more that I could say about the development of Switchboard . |
| 6 | As she made coffee she stared dreamily ahead , smiled to herself for no apparent reason , and was so far away that at last Sophie remarked , ‘ You 're very happy — very preoccupied . |
| 7 | School was so long ago that we had passed into each others ' mythology , like people who met distantly in another country . |
| 8 | ‘ It was so long ago that I 've almost forgotten . |
| 9 | It was so long ago that it happened — it 's an everyday occurrence now , people battering and killing children . |