Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] be so [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | That the phenomenon of demographic transition exists is unquestionable though , nowadays , the timescale of change is so condensed that the metamorphosis of a developing country may appear superficially different from that of eighteenth-century Europe . |
| 2 | The thought of Montaine was so arresting that for a moment he could not speak . |
| 3 | Joan 's use of Creole is so limited that it might be called tokenistic . |
| 4 | People 's needs are virtually ignored and conditions of work are so arranged that people can not interfere to any significant extent . |
| 5 | None the less , it seems likely that the course of studies was so arranged that the students would pass through the same grades of medreses as those in which they would later teach : such would in any case seem to have been the practice in later times . |
| 6 | Methods of cultivation were so improved that even relatively poor land could be intensively exploited ; new crops were introduced , which involved new systems of rotation and made large units of farmland more economic than small-holdings . |
| 7 | Adorno argues that with Beethoven the potential of music is so raised that older assumptions are shattered . |
| 8 | By the end of the nineteenth-century , the biological model of sexuality was so constructed that it had become perfectly coherent to argue that excessive sexual desire in a woman was pathological . |
| 9 | Nida similarly explains that ‘ in some Nilotic languages the passive forms of verbs are so preferred that instead of saying ‘ he went to town ’ , it is much more normal to employ an expression such as ‘ the town was gone to by him ’ . |
| 10 | Life between sorties was so organised that there was little opportunity to think . |