Example sentences of "[vb pp] so [adj] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I think Germany has become so rich that it has completely lost its fighting spirit , ’ said Turkey 's President Turgut Ozal on German television . |
| 5 | 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 " . |
| 6 | But by June 1990 , the country 's economic situation had become so desperate that it had really run out of options . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The snow was blinding but had blown so hard that it had not yet formed a blanket on the land . |
| 9 | 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 . |