Example sentences of "that [verb] so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just what is it about Barbados that produces so many wonderful cricketers ? |
| 2 | Clarke thereby played a major part in the thrust towards international standardization that became so important in late nineteenth-century European science . |
| 3 | Behind them she could work with a charm and singleness of attention that became so smooth as to be chilling , except for the friendliness of her large grey eyes . |
| 4 | Behind them she could work with a charm and a singleness of attention that became so smooth as to be chilling , except for the friendliness of her large grey eyes ’ . |
| 5 | However , what such an analysis fails to take into account is that the evidence of wrong-doing that became so public in the United States would almost certainly have never surfaced in the United Kingdom , given the laws of libel and the willingness of the British people to tolerate secrecy in government . |
| 6 | When the Irish victory became clear the audience of several thousand inside the showjumping arena broke into a chorus of ‘ Ole Ole ’ , the anthem that became so popular during Ireland 's progress throughout the 1990 soccer World Cup finals in Italy . |
| 7 | It had taken him only a few moments to discover , from his wife 's tirade , that Hank 's book was not quite so innocent as he had imagined ; however , any book that made so much money was a good book , in his opinion , and he had defended Hank hotly . |
| 8 | It was this particular characteristic of syphilis , that both the primary sore and the secondary rash will go away after a certain period , that produced so many varied cures in the pre-antibiotic era . |
| 9 | It 's hunger that drives so many ballet students there , not an innate artistic urge . |
| 10 | They look super in the portfolio : far better than all those grotty 10 cm doubles that sold so many army surplus sleeping bags . |
| 11 | Equally to the point , the spectre of drastic economies that haunts so many men and women is often the result of their having only the haziest idea as to their likely income and expenditure . |
| 12 | the sauce that tastes so GOOD ! |
| 13 | But he never succumbs to what Max Scheler termed ressentiment — that mixture of resentment and anger and injured pride that destroys so many , even if it were present in earlier years . |
| 14 | A highly crafted , hugely sophisticated building-machine that rewrites so many rules of conventional corporate architecture is inevitably hard to digest . |
| 15 | In the coming year , the Government will also face its greatest crisis over public sector borrowing , having to borrow too much to pay the interest on its debts — the trap that caught so many in the last few years . |
| 16 | Internally , GE has already done much to dismantle the bureaucratic command-and-control systems that beset so many of America 's big businesses . |
| 17 | But manufacturers have come a long way from the aluminium-framed picture windows that disfigured so many homes in the early days of the replacement window boom , and a wide range of window styles is now available . |
| 18 | On all sides the air is filled with music and a mixture of languages as young people from all over Europe get together to enjoy the pleasures of this picturesque resort that has so much to offer in such a small space — last year we counted over 15 different hostelries , none more than five minutes walk from each other ! |
| 19 | People find that they just do n't have time to get bored in a resort that has so much on offer . |
| 20 | You might say that it was n't such a terrible thing , but it 's not the actual abuse that matters so much . |
| 21 | Their much-derided ‘ copying ’ focus is now seen with more respect as showing a complete absence of the NIH ( not invented here ) syndrome that causes so many Western companies problems when new but not original ideas are introduced . |
| 22 | Lawrence was fuming after Barnsley beat Boro 1–0 on Monday , and a season that promised so much is shaping up for a disastrous finale . |
| 23 | Wild calm that holds so much . |
| 24 | How can a cooker that looks so good cost so little ? |
| 25 | I often find myself wondering how something that looks so simple and straightforward manages to cause its owner so many headaches . |
| 26 | I could turn convict , he thought , and live in prison and it would n't matter then about a job or all the things ahead that looks so unpromising . |
| 27 | This is the confusion that bedevils so much liberationist and even scientific thinking . |
| 28 | Gray ( 1982 ) states that the ‘ good news ’ about old age is that most enjoy a healthy life , untroubled by incontinence , dementia and other disorders that receive so much publicity . |
| 29 | Still , anything 's better than those 16-bit monstrosities that cost so much to buy , you ca n't afford the overpriced games to go with them . |
| 30 | It had begun to seem like the ideas he 'd had when he was younger , that you worked out in school and at night in bed , that seemed so easy , then when it carne to it did n't work out . |