Example sentences of "so [verb] that [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sara , sitting opposite him , on the other side of the solicitor 's desk , some weeks after her aunt 's death , was so affronted that for the moment she could not speak . |
| 2 | At five o'clock tea was served to the Empress and about 20 of her guests , the groups being so organized that in the course of a week all of them enjoyed this privilege , thus avoiding any outbursts of jealousy or recrimination . |
| 3 | It just so happens that for the past sixty years it has been . |
| 4 | It so happens that amongst the Nuristan Kaffirs in a remote mountain valley of Afghanistan , ‘ horns ’ have this aggressive manly sexual connotation . |
| 5 | Schroeder however does appear to equate unreasonableness with oppression but it is suggested that it was not laying down any principle to that effect : it so happened that on the facts in that case unreasonableness and oppression both existed . |
| 6 | This was a wire type recorder , and it so happened that during the very substantial impact a piece of structure cut across the take-up spool presenting the investigators with something like 11 000 lengths of wire about ten inches long on which the events were recorded . |
| 7 | He was so tanned that for a moment Helen failed to recognise him . |
| 8 | The thought of Montaine was so arresting that for a moment he could not speak . |
| 9 | Broom flowers are so constructed that as the insect lands , the stamens , packed under tension inside a sealed capsule of petals , shoot out and strike the underside of the bee , covering its furry abdomen with pollen . |