Example sentences of "become so [adj] that 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 | 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 | It has also become so familiar that it tends to overshadow the running , although it is the running from which the potency is derived . |
| 9 | In the absence of legal criteria that distinguish constitutional law from other laws , the definition becomes so broad that it defines nothing at all . |
| 10 | 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 ? ’ |