Example sentences of "so [adj] that it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plane was loaded down so much that it had difficulty in skimming the tops of those large mountains , but I was not troubled , thinking that the pilot was a well-trained American , until after an hour of this mountain hopping a small Chinese face appeared at the cockpit door and said , ‘ Is you all all-lite ? ’ |
| 2 | And it was so appalling that it had a genuine effect on public opinion . |
| 3 | Yet not so rotten that it had obscured the carved initials at the base of the grip . |
| 4 | The snow was blinding but had blown so hard that it had not yet formed a blanket on the land . |
| 5 | Until now its speed had been so great that it had grown into a ravening monster , capable not only of swallowing the Residency , but of gulping down the banqueting hall as well . |
| 6 | Here was a country so backward that it had only one landing strip , a mile of tarmacadam road , six schools and two hospitals that were really little more than clinics . |
| 7 | How could she tell this impossible Dane that for some wild , unaccountable moment the previous evening , when his mouth had joined with hers , she 'd imagined they shared a mutual attraction so powerful that it had overridden any man-made measurement of time or propriety ? |
| 8 | Was it really so important that it had to take priority over something as necessary as post , which often contains faxes and other mail urgently required . |
| 9 | Snodgrass embarked on a story about a very famous jewel called the Koh-i-noor , which he thought had once adorned a great King 's State Crown and explained how it had been so rare and so heavy that it had had to be kept locked away behind bars and guards , so that nobody could steal it . |
| 10 | But by June 1990 , the country 's economic situation had become so desperate that it had really run out of options . |
| 11 | Lieutenant Colonel Stewart Menzies , was preparing to clear his desk for one last time and transfer to Sir Hugh 's enormous office overlooking Whitehall , an office so secret that it had a private door and staircase that could not be overlooked . |
| 12 | Their clothing was so radioactive that it had to be destroyed . |
| 13 | After all , before he had proposed , she had not seen so very much of Havvie , and she had been so flattered that it had not struck her how banal his conversation was , and how limited . |
| 14 | It was a backwards memory of an event in his future so terrifying that it had generated harmonics of fear all the way along his lifeline ) . |
| 15 | It was so bad that it had to be buried in quick lime in Toby Wood ; special ‘ funeral ’ cards were printed for the occasion . |