Example sentences of "so [adv] [adj] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because he was so devilishly attractive that she could n't resist him ? |
| 2 | He looked for the pole Star on nights so intensely black that you almost had to touch your limbs to make sure they were still there . |
| 3 | Doubts were expressed in Washington ; but in spite of Griffin 's assertion that the wave of communist risings in Indo-China were not economic , social or ideological , rather they were predominantly nationalistic , he concluded that it was because the Bao Dai government was itself so intensely nationalist that it was worth supporting . |
| 4 | Snow had come very early in the year , but all of October had been so intensely cold that no one was really surprised to see such a heavy fall , although there had been no sign of it when they entered the hall . |
| 5 | At the extreme , some nuclear waste was so intensely radioactive that it had to be kept isolated from the human environment for thousands of years . |
| 6 | Even if the court can not point to the actual error , nevertheless , if the figure is so extravagantly large or so inadequately small that the only conclusion is that he must have gone wrong somewhere , then the court will interfere in much the same way as the Court of Appeal will interfere with an award of damages if it is a wholly erroneous estimate . |
| 7 | The pain that tugged at the muscles of his stomach and chest was so intimately hurtful that he knew it was nothing but useless unspent emotion . |
| 8 | Maria lifted a hand to hit him , but he looked so grimly reluctant that her fingers had uncurled before they reached his chest , touching him lightly before moving up to the lock of black hair that had fallen over his tanned brow . |
| 9 | In baggy collarless cream shirt and hip-hugging chino trousers he looked so overwhelmingly attractive that she could n't drag her eyes away . |
| 10 | Yes , there was something sexual between the two of them now , but any interest he had felt six years ago would have been connected solely with the phenomenon of the awe he had inspired , so overwhelmingly intense that it had reduced her to awkward , agonised silence every time he was around . |
| 11 | The latter symptom , common among individualists , manifests itself as a refusal to acknowledge the problem : while seeking to defend complex theoretical claims , individualists frequently take the intuitive truth of their own doctrine to be so overwhelmingly obvious that its opponents scarcely need to be taken seriously . |
| 12 | In the event the reactions of Coalition Liberal ministers were so uniformly hostile that Lloyd George moved quickly into reverse ; when he met Coalition Liberal MPs , he merely suggested greater cooperation with Unionists and did not mention fusion as such . |
| 13 | This proved to be so commercially successful that it became a reciprocal arrangement , with Mills and Boon importing Harlequin titles . |
| 14 | If one closely observes both designs , i.e. the ‘ eyes ’ of the Cobra and the Wandjina image ( see photographs p.63,64 ) , the similarity appears so strikingly evident that in consideration of the metaphysical aspects of the Rainbow Serpent , the Spectacled Cobra , the Wandjina and the Cobra 's hood markings , the point is further amplified . |
| 15 | The basic set-up consists of rather basic apparatus out of a school laboratory — battery , heavy water , metal electrodes and meters for heat or neutrons — which is so widely available that the discovery could have been made anywhere at any time in the preceding half century ; but somehow it has been overlooked by two generations of scientists until suddenly in 1989 not one but two groups in the same location simultaneously announce their breakthroughs . |
| 16 | The first of these statements was such an insult to my intelligence that I wanted to punch Mr Kinnock on the nose , and the second so downright outrageous that I wanted to do something worse . |
| 17 | Sometimes the manner is sly and teasing , at others so challengingly straight-faced that you find yourself half-believing it ( MACARONI : When prepared in the Italian style , is served with the fingers ) . |
| 18 | Doctor Who got so incredibly popular that you found your weekends were no longer free either . |
| 19 | Barely noticing the brief , sharp moment of pain as her flesh yielded to his , she was caught up in a maelstrom of whirling sensations , the hard , pulsating rhythm drawing her down into an emotional whirlpool , before her body was suddenly racked by shuddering convulsions of a pleasure so incredibly intense that it was almost too much to bear . |
| 20 | Eric Hammond of the Electrical , Electronic , Telecommunication and Plumbing Union said in The Daily Telegraph : ’ It is so fundamentally wrong that it will increasingly threaten Labour 's prospects of a national victory . ’ |
| 21 | Other people have a concept of God so fundamentally false that it would be better for them to doubt than to remain devout . |
| 22 | The principles on which these three kinds of bodies are built are so fundamentally different that it is difficult to believe that they can be related to one another except right at the very roots of the evolutionary tree . |
| 23 | It is on the borderline between a true signal , indicating the nature of the coming activity and establishing specific relations within which it is intended to occur , and that type of signal which is not preparatory or externally indicative but is integrated within the form of a work : a type which we can distinguish as conventions , and which is so fundamentally important that it will be separately discussed , below . |
| 24 | I have become convinced that our whole approach is hopelessly unscientific , in fact wrong , and particularly that my own reconstruction is so fundamentally flawed that we really do n't have the right to be displaying it anywhere except in a Disneyland type of amusement park . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ We felt that the conclusions were so fundamentally flawed that some other kind of independent study should be carried out . ’ |
| 26 | We can not agree to something which starts off by being so fundamentally discriminatory that , year by year , it becomes even more discriminatory . |
| 27 | Roman was n't the type to lose control over any woman , and he was so powerfully attractive that she could n't imagine any woman turning him down . |
| 28 | He was removed quickly and taken to hospital to have ten stitches in an ear so badly lacerated that the cartilage was exposed . |
| 29 | This was named after a 19th century frontier poet who , according to the organiser of the competition , Don Nilsen , was a ‘ cross between Alfred , Lord Tennyson and Chief Sitting Bull ’ , and was ‘ so outstandingly bad that somehow she was good ’ . |
| 30 | He sounded so fiercely protective that she wondered sadly what it would be like to have a man care for her as much as Roman cared for Berenice . |