Example sentences of "so [adv] [vb pp] [that] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point is to resurrect the lives of women obscured by their more famous male spouses or contemporaries ; but too often these have been so effectively overshadowed that the biographies are pious constructions rather than recon structions . |
| 2 | As you might expect from such headlong cross-breeding and hybridizing in the incessant search for something different and new , the various types are so widely stretched that the edges tend to run into each other and merge , and the dividing line becomes ever more difficult to discern . |
| 3 | ‘ The breakfast was so badly cooked that the girls could n't possibly eat it , so they were hungry . ’ |
| 4 | That is happening simply because the prison service has been so badly mismanaged that the staff are disaffected . |
| 5 | She was so badly tortured that the authorities had to send her to hospital . |
| 6 | But these have been so badly eroded that the controlling guards of critical thought are down . |
| 7 | Twenty minutes later she found herself inside the Head 's office , white and trembling , so obviously terrified that the Head herself was taken aback . |
| 8 | The fact that the price fell so steeply indicated that the gamble on the harvest had paid off , but due to delays and maladministration peasants were still starving , as we have seen . |
| 9 | The Kufra agenda had fifteen items : discussion of the first two was leisurely , so generously chaired that the assembly had to discuss the rest hurriedly in the last two evenings . |
| 10 | ( One campus I knew of in a large industrial city used to be so strictly guarded that the students referred to it as the town 's ‘ second prison ’ . ) |
| 11 | We have so far assumed that the micro-instructions are held in a read-only control store , although we have considered the possibility of interchangeable plug-in control stores . |
| 12 | If the change is not well managed throughout this process , different groups ' interests may be so radically affected that the process has to degenerate into chaos before stability can be regained . |
| 13 | Certainly general policies , such as those reproduced in part below , could have the effect not only of preventing but abating existing odour nuisance , the county council having recognised that in most cases where odour pollution causes problems , the source of the odour is either close to residential property or industry is so densely concentrated that the total odour emission is unacceptable . |
| 14 | ‘ Put into the language of today , the general principle being there stated is simply that , unless the contrary is expressly enacted or so plainly implied that the courts must give effect to it , United Kingdom legislation is applicable only to British subjects or to foreigners who by coming to the United Kingdom , whether for a short or a long time , have made themselves subject to British jurisdiction . |
| 15 | ‘ British insects have been so well recorded that the discovery of new species is the icing on the cake of the study , ’ said Dr Holmes . |
| 16 | It was almost as if she was surrounded by a choir , with each person allocated one word , but so well rehearsed that the sentences flowed seamlessly along . |
| 17 | Although the rail journey involves a change of trains , the timetable of services is so well co-ordinated that the change is no great inconvenience . |
| 18 | The description of feelings and emotions are so well portrayed that the reader is able to feel with the character at every twist and turn of their lives . |
| 19 | It would seem to be patently unfair to dismiss a driver with a perfect record prior to a momentary lapse which results in a court imposing a penalty , simply because the works ' rules are so rigidly drawn that the employer is deprived of exercising a discretion . |
| 20 | Until then the English had been sailing to places so far from effective Spanish opposition and so thinly populated that the government had not had to provide any help . |
| 21 | The central character is so consistently developed that the audience take it for granted the house will fall down only a few weeks after he has started [ sic ] to live in it . ’ |
| 22 | Foods that do not sustain microbial growth , such as bread , or raw produce which is so heavily contaminated that the bacterial loading on a surface is insignificant , are not likely to require handling on disinfected surfaces . |
| 23 | Beatty 's aim was to keep Hipper so closely engaged that the Germans could not break off the action until Jellicoe arrived ; Hipper 's task was to lure Beatty to destruction at the hands of Scheer . |
| 24 | Interpreting the music well takes hours of listening to discover its subtleties of phrasing , rhythm and mood ; then more time should be spent on experimentation until the music and movement are so closely connected that the movement does n't work without its music . |
| 25 | Implementation of the plan and evaluation are so closely intertwined that the four-section cycle is redrawn to highlight the regular to-and-fro between the first ( ‘ sustain commitment ’ ) and the second ( ‘ check progress ’ ) which leads to ‘ overcome problems ’ and then ‘ check successes ’ . |
| 26 | The projectionist there dutifully pulled out can after can of old stock , sometimes so poorly preserved that the nitrate was destroying the footage . |
| 27 | The few jobs that are available are so poorly paid that the few who are offered such employment can not afford to take it as they would n't be able to afford the rent on their new homes . |