Example sentences of "so [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Night Goblins hate their old rivals the Dwarfs so intensely that they will often fight to the death rather than run away . |
| 2 | She disliked the wretched man so intensely that she did n't care if she never had to see him again . |
| 3 | In a sense the recent pressure of work was a blessing , for it isolated her , forcing her to concentrate so intensely that she simply had no time to dig deeply into such perplexities . |
| 4 | The memory of their night together haunted her so relentlessly that it was daylight before she fell into an uneasy , exhausted sleep . |
| 5 | These snakes have evolved the ability to rear up and squeeze their poison glands so forcibly that the venom inside them is propelled towards their enemy as a jet or spray of droplets . |
| 6 | ‘ Yours , of course , ’ said Mrs Harper , grimly : so grimly that her reply seemed like wit . |
| 7 | Leonora , afraid he 'd been about to order her to bed , assented so rapturously that Penry eyed her in amusement as he crossed to the stairs . |
| 8 | ‘ Then why have you developed your powers of hearing so acutely that you are able to detect the click of the gate and the snap of the letter-box , even above the roaring of that vacuum cleaner ? ‘ |
| 9 | By the end of the evening he described his voice as being in the most distressing condition , the problem had returned so acutely that he was hardly able to speak . |
| 10 | For a bet , he had once broken into the flat where a certain Vice-Questore was entertaining a lady friend and removed the couple 's clothes so stealthily that the Vice-Questore thought something supernatural must have occurred and came over all religious for a while . |
| 11 | So somewhere that was violently and destroyed out of revenge . |
| 12 | As has been previously noted he gave much attention to the unique colour of the Cumbrian mountains and this he combined with the sunlight and shadows falling on the hills so skilfully that it is possible for an observer with local knowledge , to tell the warmth of the sun or the time of day.Just as the mountains give colour to the lakes , so in turn do they reflect the colours of the sky . |
| 13 | He embalmed a child in 1717 so skilfully that he deceived Peter the Great , who thought the infant was alive yet in a state of normal repose . |
| 14 | All agreed to this , and then another knight , Sir Peter de la Mare , who was the Earl of March 's steward , summed up the debate so skilfully that he was chosen by the commons to speak on their behalf before the lords . |
| 15 | The burrows of these robber wasps are usually concealed so skilfully that few other animals are able to find them and rob them . |
| 16 | In the following example from the organ pedal melody of the Entrée in Messiaen 's Messe de la Pentecôte , only four pitches are used , yet the composer reshapes the rhythms and note-orders so skilfully that there is no feeling of repetitiousness or monotony : In Example 17 , from the slow movement of Bartók 's Fourth String Quartet , we have a wonderfully sweeping melody which seems to grow out of the first bar . |
| 17 | He listened so politely that I perhaps talked a little too much about my dear country . |
| 18 | I felt my parents ' anxieties about both their own and their children 's lives so keenly that they became my own , quite against my will , and I had to fight to reject them . |
| 19 | But there are many teachers in many schools who feel the need to break out of the cycle of crisis management and low morale so keenly that they are prepared to make those commitments . |
| 20 | Paige felt the shooting pleasure so keenly that her hand clutched frantically at his hair . |
| 21 | Alas , there is no way this can be overcome but it occurs so rarely that it is not in itself an outstanding problem . |
| 22 | She saw the children of her other daughters Ann and Beth most market days , but encountered Victoria so rarely that each time she had altered beyond recognition . |
| 23 | They do it so rarely that it is good for them . |
| 24 | She blinked at that , something she did so rarely that it was noticeable . |
| 25 | A presidential authorization for a covert operation , a ‘ mini-finding ’ , was rushed out at the end of November , so secretly that hardly anyone knew of it ; this made good what had happened already , which was not supposed to have happened at all . |
| 26 | He attempted to plead insanity , but did it so effectively that they concluded he must be sane . |
| 27 | On the other hand , felids digest the molars of their prey so effectively that they are extreme members of category 5 or even could be put into another category , 6 , on their own ( Fig. 3. 21D-E ) . |
| 28 | Now playing at inside-right , Whitworth was top scorer with 16 goals , but he also combined with Frank so effectively that we had a comfortable 2nd Division season , and then he headed our scoring chart again in 1924–25 . |
| 29 | As risen apes we have come to dominate this small planet so effectively that we are in danger of smothering it . |
| 30 | He did this so effectively that it is to this day referred to as the Wallace Line . |