Example sentences of "so [adj] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The appeals court found that the Koons copying of the photo was so complete that it went beyond the bounds of the ‘ fair use ’ doctrine , which allows artists , authors and journalists to ‘ quote ’ from other works . |
| 32 | His triumph was so complete that it seemed to him that he must surely radiate some evident joy . |
| 33 | In a sense this is an extreme form of heterogeneous accretion of volatiles , though the separation of planetary accretion from the veneering by volatiles is so complete that it merits separate consideration . |
| 34 | Unfortunately the material at the tide-line was so sloppy that it ran out of the probe and no cores were brought home . |
| 35 | Her throat was so dry that it hurt . |
| 36 | Sometimes she was so funny that it seemed she ought to be given a show of her own . |
| 37 | So funny that it hurt . |
| 38 | The transition was so abrupt that it took her by surprise . |
| 39 | An instance is provided by the civil war between Pompey and Caesar in the first century BC , when hoarding was so prevalent that it caused a crisis of liquidity . |
| 40 | He says drug corruption is now so prevalent that it has tainted the assembly , the courts , and press and television . |
| 41 | This perspective is so prevalent that it has spread far beyond medical , health and welfare agencies to influence fundamentally most people 's approaches to Disabled people . |
| 42 | There was one girl in particular who interested Harriet , a small girl with hair cut gamin short , whose face was so expressive that it seemed to reflect every one of the emotions that they were all feeling , these midinettes who had basted hemlines and stitched hooks and eyes into place , positioned trimmings and sewed them into place with such tiny stitches that they were all but invisible to the naked eye . |
| 43 | You need to ask yourself what is so different when it comes to talking to an audience ? |
| 44 | Johanna was so popular that it took police a day to talk to all her friends after she was reported missing . |
| 45 | The time and dedication demanded do not seem to put people off : the course is so popular that it has had to shift from a country house to a conference centre on an industrial estate in the Midlands . |
| 46 | Finally , though it must be generally accepted that individuals can not be protected from foolish actions based on an inadequate knowledge of the law , the situation following the 1954 Act was so complex and , because of the inevitable unpredictability of the necessity for compulsory purchase , so risky that it appeared likely ( in retrospect at least ) that public opinion would demand a further change . |
| 47 | The room , painted a white so fresh that it seemed pale blue , was cool and soothing . |
| 48 | I mean that the data on spontaneous abortion is so unmistakable that it seems to me that artificially induced abortions are just a continuation with modern technology of something women have always done anyway discriminate against their ab about their offspring , sometimes discriminating against them . |
| 49 | Ironically the price of sterling went up so high that it made it very difficult for us to sell our other manufactured goods and many people are now of the belief that because of the North Sea oil price rises , this had an adverse affect on our economy , making it more difficult for us to sell manufacturing goods because the pound was very strong against other currencies . |
| 50 | The tension in the room was so high that it flowed like an invisible electric charge . |
| 51 | One of the main planks of the CCAUK 's argument is that the Annual Percentage rate is not so high as it looks , since though most transactions are contracted for ( say ) 26 weeks , in fact they end up being repaid — with no series problem — in about 30 or 33 weeks , with no penalty . |
| 52 | The insurance company had claimed that the system for calculating punitive awards — to punish wrongdoers and deter future misconduct — was so irrational that it violated the company 's constitutional right to be treated fairly . |
| 53 | These units could then be regarded as repeatedly subdivisible to the point that the final dimension is so minute that it stands in the same relation to the highest human capacity for feeling as does the single cell to the supreme achievement of cellular development , which is the physical human being . |
| 54 | But knowledge develops unevenly ; Dewey 's luck was not so conspicuous when it came to , say , radio engineering , where relatively simple new subjects end up with a classification symbol of twelve digits or more . |
| 55 | We saw earlier that the move to greater inequality in income had been so marked that it has triggered off a widening of other class differences ( detailed in Part I ) . |
| 56 | Secondly , the raising of the school leaving age in 1947 meant that the difference between types of secondary schooling was not so marked as it had been . |
| 57 | Perhaps by then the Government may have some strategy that will provide work for the million or so unemployed that it overlooks while compiling the official figures . |
| 58 | Alice Wilson 's cellar dwelling with its brick floor ‘ so damp that it seemed as if the last washing could never dry up ’ would not be far distant from the Davenports ' if the nature of that ‘ dampness ’ were defined . |
| 59 | Sun and wind are so free so it makes sense to use them where possible for power . |
| 60 | These relations between finite coordinate distances are generally so inconvenient that it makes more sense to start calculations from the differentials which do transform linearly : . |