Example sentences of "[verb] so [adj] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ After ten minutes , ’ wrote J.C.Trewin , ‘ the little piece became so predictable that it needed acting of quite uncommon quality to heighten it . |
| 2 | The problem was that every time they took it over 250 mph the left wing became so heavy that it needed two hands to hold it up . |
| 3 | In his State of the Union address , delivered to the US Congress on Jan. 31 , President George Bush stated that " the events of the year just ended , the revolution of 1989 , have been a chain reaction — change so striking that it marks the beginning of a new era in the world 's affairs " . |
| 4 | As he pulled away , the leaves on the trees shuddered and the rain began to fall so hard that it jumped back off the tarmac , turned to mist . |
| 5 | Food never tastes so good as it does after a long day 's hike . |
| 6 | Lipsey appeared to have provided a theory of the determinants of money wage changes and , by integration , of the time path for the money wage rate which the economic profession found so convincing that it went virtually unchallenged for several years . |
| 7 | In recent years the evidence for the health benefits of fibre , or ‘ roughage ’ as it used to be called , has grown so strong that it has filtered through from the medical journals and is now well known to the British and American public . |
| 8 | One seemed bolder than the others and came so close that it began to enter the realm of ordinary vision . |
| 9 | Maybe hatred could grow so strong that it became a force of its own , he thought — a real physical force . |
| 10 | There was slight muddying of some tones , and the bass end could be made so heavy that it wiped out the rest of the mix , but with some careful EQ'ing during mixdown I ended up with a result which would be more than acceptable as a demo tape . |
| 11 | It gets so dirty and it looks dirty if it 's not polished every day . |
| 12 | We are now faced with a situation , therefore , in which the debate about ‘ the environment ’ has become so wide-ranging that it has impinged upon almost every aspect of contemporary industrial society . |
| 13 | ‘ I think Germany has become so rich that it has completely lost its fighting spirit , ’ said Turkey 's President Turgut Ozal on German television . |
| 14 | German angst over the issue prompted Turkish President Turgut Özal to assert on German television on Jan. 24 that " Germany had become so rich that it has completely lost its fighting spirit " . |
| 15 | But by June 1990 , the country 's economic situation had become so desperate that it had really run out of options . |
| 16 | By the 1870s the machine has become so sophisticated that it needs more educated people to run it , to learn new techniques of maintenance and improvement , and to keep up its momentum . |
| 17 | To the shrew , 24 hours seems so long that it divides it up into many smaller intervals of activity and rest , effectively experiencing many days within one rotation of the Earth . |
| 18 | She rose slowly , awkwardly , cursing a head that felt so heavy that it threatened to fall off her shoulders , and sat up wincing . |
| 19 | THE upheaval that shook Eastern Europe felt so natural that it seems pointless to ask why it happened . |
| 20 | Robyn noticed every detail in a fraction of a second , registered the thought that he looked so wonderful that it did n't bear thinking about , and then she asked , with deliberate bluntness , ‘ What do you want ? ’ |
| 21 | It has also become so familiar that it tends to overshadow the running , although it is the running from which the potency is derived . |
| 22 | He tries so hard that it seems churlish to deny him a few points for effort . |
| 23 | In the absence of legal criteria that distinguish constitutional law from other laws , the definition becomes so broad that it defines nothing at all . |
| 24 | On one side is the shattering power of time : This feeling of inevitability becomes so strong that it makes the poem comment on itself in surprised awareness — ‘ Oh fearful meditation ! ’ — and pushes on to an apparently unanswerable climax : ‘ Or what strong hand can hold his swift foot back ? / Or who his spoil of beauty can forbid ? ’ |
| 25 | The snow was blinding but had blown so hard that it had not yet formed a blanket on the land . |
| 26 | And the weather outside sounded so bad that it seemed wise to stay as she was a little longer . |
| 27 | He longed then , suddenly , and with a passion that had been suppressed so long that it took him by surprise , for someone to share all this with . |
| 28 | Startled , she looked up into Dane 's sea-blue eyes , and even as she tried to strengthen herself against him she felt a rush of longing so intense that it made her weak at the knees . |
| 29 | Eventually the tears dried up , but still she did n't move , lying there listlessly , feeling so brittle that it seemed the smallest of movements would scatter her into a thousand pieces . |