Example sentences of "so [adj] [that] [pron] is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are interrupting my fixed gaze into the third ring of the electric fire , or my autistic pacing around the living room , as I try to determine whether the print that I thought was beautiful is in fact so vulgar that it is lying in wait to expose me to ridicule . |
| 2 | Demand is so high that there is bound to be plenty of interest in two new properties in need of some tender loving care which have just come on to the market . |
| 3 | The central issue is that racism is so widespread that it is institutionalized . |
| 4 | Imagine , said Francis , that I returned to Perugia on the darkest of nights , a night so cold that everything is covered with snow , and the frost in the folds of my habit hits my legs and makes them bleed . |
| 5 | The name is so good that it is used twice at opposite ends of the Peak District , and both routes are major middle grade classics . |
| 6 | For the DPP Miss Goddard said that mere delay is not capable of being an abuse of the process unless the delay is so great that what is sought by the Crown is no longer the vindication of justice but amounts to oppression or harassment of a defendant . |
| 7 | Walking is the only means of transport that can claim to be universal … yet the pedestrian is the most neglected of travellers … ironically , it is perhaps because walking is so commonplace that it is neglected — pedestrians are so universal as to be almost invisible . |
| 8 | A pilot project to bring countryside recreation information into the town centre has proved so successful that it is set to become a permanent feature in Northampton . |
| 9 | The huge eight-year-old gelding , whose appetite is so big that he is nicknamed Monster Munch , was led through a crowd of 500 well-wishers to his box at the Saxon House stables of his trainer , Nick Gaselee . |
| 10 | Just because it is so common that it is regarded as ‘ normal ’ to expect chronic ill health with advancing years does that mean that it is the way things have to be or , indeed , should be ? |
| 11 | Gardens , said Gertrude Jekyll , ‘ may either be fashioned into a dream of beauty , a place of perfect rest and refreshment of the mind and body — a series of soul-satisfying pictures … or they may be so misused that everything is jarring and displeasing . |
| 12 | While the Psalmi Davidis penitentiales were commissioned by Albrecht V , their textual expressiveness of the kind we have already noticed in Rore ( p. 2– ) is so intense that one is tempted to hear in them a note of personal anguish . |
| 13 | Some statements are so wild that no-one is expected to take them seriously ; these are sometimes referred to as salesman 's " puff " . |