Example sentences of "so [adv] [verb] that [art] " 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 | These techniques of consumer targeting are now so widely applied that a separate chapter must be devoted to them . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ The breakfast was so badly cooked that the girls could n't possibly eat it , so they were hungry . ’ |
| 5 | That is happening simply because the prison service has been so badly mismanaged that the staff are disaffected . |
| 6 | She was so badly tortured that the authorities had to send her to hospital . |
| 7 | But the prize is so infinitely rewarding and so badly needed that a little hurt surely should be acceptable on the way . |
| 8 | But these have been so badly eroded that the controlling guards of critical thought are down . |
| 9 | He also believes that a Martian might be able to understand symbols ( and so apparently assumes that the Martian is not going to be at all like any future ( IBM computer ) . |
| 10 | The high frequency vibrations were so highly favoured that an infinite amount of energy would be present in them . |
| 11 | Twenty minutes later she found herself inside the Head 's office , white and trembling , so obviously terrified that the Head herself was taken aback . |
| 12 | After so long thinking that the reason for our kidnap had been bad feeling between Britain and Iran , and knowing that , before the Rushdie affair at least , fences had been mended , it was hard to believe now that it had all been a mirage . |
| 13 | How else could it be so swiftly known that a prominent member of the Royal College of Acupuncturists , say , had been picked up during the night and pinched for drunk-driving ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Silken and smooth and so deeply loving that the pain was there again … |
| 17 | By the mid-1970s collectivist policies and the constraints on government they represented were so deeply entrenched that a virtual counter-revolution was required . |
| 18 | ( 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 ’ . ) |
| 19 | And a photographer told how he saw a girl of about six so severely burned that a fireman could not bring himself to treat her by dousing her with a hose . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | enable your opponent to abandon a commitment by : describing all the concessions you have made so far suggesting that the circumstances have changed blaming some other party or situation for the present position , such as the government , another union , the economy , the personnel department suggesting that somehow there has been a misunderstanding referring the whole matter to another individual or group . |
| 22 | The results presented so far imply that the information acquired during non-reinforced exposure to a stimulus , like that acquired as a consequence of other conditioning procedures , requires the presence of appropriate contextual cues if it is to be fully retrieved . |
| 23 | The evidence so far suggests that the interviewers will fail . |
| 24 | Results so far confirm that the stratigraphy of the island is similar to that of Santa Isabel . |
| 25 | Then , by way of cheerful farewell , they say that enquiries so far confirm that the timing mechanism , once in operation , can not be neutralized and appears to be irreversible . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Over the last decade the political dynamic of our society has changed so much , the social fabric has been so profoundly ravished that a different form of theatre is called for |
| 29 | I understand John McGrath 's sentiments but over the last decade or so the political dynamic of our society has changed so much , the social fabric has been so profoundly ravished that a different form of theatre is called for . ’ |
| 30 | And it had on painted hose of black and white , so cunningly painted that no man who saw them would have thought but that they were grieves and cuishes , unless he had laid his hand upon them ; and they put on it a surcoat of green sendal , having his arms blazoned thereon , and a helmet of parchment , which was cunningly painted that every one might have believed it to be iron ; and his shield was hung round his neck , and they placed the sword Tizona in his hand , and they raised his arm , and fastened it up so subtilly that it was a marvel to see how upright he held the sword . |