Example sentences of "[noun] so [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Phoebe loathed housekeeping so profoundly that she felt guilty about it and always did it with a disciplined and joyless rigour , expecting everyone else to do so too . |
| 2 | This had now been soldered to the main building so well that you could n't see the join . |
| 3 | She got in the canoe so rapidly that she nearly tipped it over . |
| 4 | The thick forests growing on the flanks of the volcano were completely levelled , in some cases so completely that it was hard to tell that there once had been trees growing there . |
| 5 | Many managers feel that they understand how to run meetings so well that they hardly need to prepare at all . |
| 6 | If we want parents to enjoy meetings so much that they will want to repeat the experience then a number of basic issues need to be addressed : |
| 7 | British and Empire troops dug in and organized their defences so rapidly that all German counter-attacks the following day were thrown back and even more ground gained . |
| 8 | She plaited her hair so tightly that it hurt her , straining hair and flesh until it felt as though the white seam down the back of her head might split and the brains gush out . |
| 9 | Indeed , he took his responsibility so seriously that he had to be dissuaded from resignation . |
| 10 | However , Mr Major made his frankest admission so far that the Tory campaign had been dogged by the recession . |
| 11 | Some dealers find it hilarious when clients take their investments so seriously that they investigate the OTC companies personally . |
| 12 | Hotspur 's lance , steadily lowered as he came , selected its target , the foremost knight on the tallest horse , and struck the uplifted shield so strongly that the shock flattened its bearer back upon his horse 's crupper ; but he kept his seat gamely , rolling under the lance as it flashed by , to recover dizzily and swing a vehement though ineffective stroke with his sword , before the lurch and sway of the press carried him away . |
| 13 | His upper jaw kept clamping down on his lower jaw with a loud grinding noise , and chewed through each morsel so thoroughly that we could hear his teeth striking against each other … |
| 14 | He relates it to Lennie so often that he almost begins to believe it himself , although underneath he knows that it can never happen . |
| 15 | She defended her case so well that the prior gave judgement in her favour . |
| 16 | It too articulated social reform , but in spite of popular appeals to the people and to the common good , its narrow sectional base was sharply exposed by discourses around the struggles of the unemployed , The Alliance advocacy of cuts in relief undermined its support so drastically that the ground it lost on the council was never recovered . |
| 17 | The species of angler fish that lives in the Sargasso Sea is blotched and betasselled in a way that matches the floating sargassum weed so closely that the angler is virtually invisible to the eye of a human being , just as it is to that of a small fish , a shrimp or any other marine creature that might drift through the surface waters of that stagnant sea . |
| 18 | She saw the children of her other daughters Ann and Beth most market days , but encountered Victoria so rarely that each time she had altered beyond recognition . |
| 19 | By the third day they were quarrelling openly and at times so fiercely that the knights standing around went for their swords . |
| 20 | Forty years ago , one of De Gaulle 's greatest admirers , the writer , Franois Mauriac , summed up typical French distrust after nearly a century of conflict by saying that he loved Germany so much that he was glad there were two of them . |
| 21 | One potential second ascensionist who shall remain nameless ( clue : he lives in Wallyford ) tried to seat the gear on the crux so violently that he took an 80′ near groundfall when six runners ripped ! ! |
| 22 | Right now I should be putting the frighteners on the lot of them — by flinging Rainbow back behind the wheel , and sending the taxi southwards down the northbound carriageway at a speed so fast that all the aunties ' lives flash in a whizzing 360-degree pan before their eyes , or by rendering the whole equipage airborne while the driver uses the remnants of her chopped-chicken-liver-on-rye to strafe the unsuspecting Anglicans of Wherwell , Winchester and Nether Wallop . |
| 23 | The good readers , in contrast , seem to recognise words so quickly that the beneficial ( or harmful ) effects of context do not have time to take effect . |
| 24 | She cried and wailed into Sally-Anne 's skirt so pitifully that Sally-Anne 's own fear of the brute before her was lost in sympathy for his wretched victim . |
| 25 | Body hunched apparently awkwardly over the front of the machine , hunting for front tyre grip , Doohan slams the NSR on to its side so violently that he will surely crash . |
| 26 | Doohan slams the NSR on to its side so violently that he will surely crash |
| 27 | In a corner of the Salon Imperial of the Hotel Intercontinental , Paris , Harriet Varna braced her back against a statuesque pillar and looked steadily into the viewfinder of her camera , concentrating on her subjects so fiercely that she was almost oblivious to the electric atmosphere that surrounded her , bouncing off the Viennese décor and the sumptuous rococo ceiling along with the heat and the light as the models of the House of Saint Laurent moved gracefully along the hundred yards of catwalk to display the new season 's couture collection . |
| 28 | Welcome back:A new clinic … the first of it 's kind in Britain … is cutting hospital waiting lists so fast that it 's been described as a runaway success . |
| 29 | As a body , they have influenced government and secured their future so effectively that they and their agencies are written by name into the Statute Book . |
| 30 | The voice always seemed to come from the shadows or from somewhere just aside from where he was looking ; and usually the words did n't make any sense , and they passed through his mind so quickly that they 'd gone before he could reach for them . |