Example sentences of "so [verb] that it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Einstein proposed a box full of radiation with a clock-operated shutter , so arranged that it was open for a time At , letting out some radiation during this period . |
| 2 | The only trouble was that the photograph was so arranged that it would be very easy for a picture editor to crop the product out of the picture altogether ! |
| 3 | Some federal states are so centralised that it is doubtful whether one should continue to refer to them as federal . |
| 4 | When he changed from an acoustic to an electric guitar so overloaded that it made the windows of the little studios rattle , you could still sometimes hear his feet rapping on the boards and the irregular chord sequences and the trademark himmahimmahimm drifting through the air . |
| 5 | Such cases will often have been treated as acute cystitis for a day or two , and may present to the casualty department or emergency room with a bladder so swollen that it mimics a twenty week pregnancy . |
| 6 | He admits also that Buddhism displayed a tendency to participation as it spread out from India into other countries , though he fails to recognize the examples of participation which might be said to derive from the communal life of the sangha and so insists that it is the principle of identity that predominates . |
| 7 | Below that your ‘ bottom time ’ — the time between leaving the surface and commencing your ascent — is so limited that it 's hardly worthwhile . ’ |
| 8 | The small surplus that is distributed is so limited that it can not be shared by all , but patronage is a mechanism of selecting a few workers to benefit . |
| 9 | Joan 's use of Creole is so limited that it might be called tokenistic . |
| 10 | It was obviously old , but so corroded that it almost fell to pieces in my hand . |
| 11 | Filigree Street crosses its turnwise end in the manner of the crosspiece of a T , and the Broken Drum is so placed that it looks down the full length of the street . |
| 12 | The ground was so contaminated that it was too dangerous even to try to remove the soil . |
| 13 | As Sir Arthur Bryant has so vividly put it , ‘ That life of scholarship and labour , with the tireless hand writing amid the intervals of prayer and teaching , sometimes so frozen that it could hardly grip the pen , is one of the proud memories of England . ’ |
| 14 | The court was told that the dog was so emaciated that it was little more than skin and bone . |
| 15 | In some cases land has become so degraded that it is agriculturally worthless . |
| 16 | Miss Hannah Hauxwell , dressed in men 's trousers and old jacket so torn that it looked as though savaging by wolf packs had once been part of her daily routine , looked at me mildly . |
| 17 | The uses for speech synthesis are so varied that it is almost impossible to list them . |
| 18 | Gorbad Ironclaw was one of the most successful Orc leaders of all time : his campaign of destruction raged across the Empire and left the region of Solland so devastated that it has never fully recovered . |
| 19 | Often the two structures are so intertwined that it is impossible to separate and distinguish them . |
| 20 | Planning and controlling are so intertwined that it is artificial to draw rigid lines between them . |
| 21 | They have suggested that the powerpack would be so designed that it could readily be repaired and with suitable maintenance would be capable of running for some 20 years . |
| 22 | The Bishop of London , Tait , agreed , adding that ‘ Any pity called up for the unfortunate Charles I was likely to be dissipated by statements in the services which were so exaggerated that it was likely when read to turn the staunchest Royalist into a parliamentarian . ’ |
| 23 | She was so absorbed that it was not for some time that she realized that the sea on her left was no longer the water of the estuary but had become the ocean . |
| 24 | The glass is so smeared that it hardly counts as a reflective surface . |
| 25 | Dr Sasaki had not looked outside the hospital all day ; the scene inside was so terrible and so compelling that it had not occurred to him to ask any questions about what had happened beyond the windows and doors . |
| 26 | Ten years of painstaking research , of test and trial , have created a material so advanced that it is unlike anything which has ever been produced before . |
| 27 | about the room were high chairs and low chairs , bandy-legged chairs , chairs so attenuated that it was a wonder any but a sylph could sit upon them , marqueterie tables covered with marvellous gimcracks , china ornaments of all ages and countries , bronzes , gilt daggers , Books of Beauty , yataghans , Turkish papooshes and boxes of Parisian bonbons … |
| 28 | This is a life so transformed that it stands in utter contrast to the life which comes naturally to us as human beings . |
| 29 | We should make our being so open that it is like one of the old free cities — open to all eyes . |
| 30 | I believe the Colonel now thought things so pacified that it was safe and expedient to bring his oldest child out for a vacation . |