Example sentences of "[noun pl] so [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Many managers feel that they understand how to run meetings so well that they hardly need to prepare at all . |
| 3 | 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 : |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Some dealers find it hilarious when clients take their investments so seriously that they investigate the OTC companies personally . |
| 6 | By the third day they were quarrelling openly and at times so fiercely that the knights standing around went for their swords . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | We are unlikely to follow the example of the Japanese , who tax their second-hand cars so punitively that you would be grateful to buy new . |
| 11 | His wavy black hair curled behind his ears so thickly that she was reminded of an Ingres portrait of a nobleman she had seen in one of Miss Hatherby 's books . |
| 12 | They like foreigners so much that they dispute with one another as to who shall have and treat a foreigner in his house . |
| 13 | He saw Owen redden with pleasure , and laughed , flinging an arm about his shoulders so forgetfully that it was a worthy as well as a willing sacrifice Owen made for him , containing the pain of the embrace . |
| 14 | It was to be alleged that the respondent had pushed the father of the two brothers so violently that he fell and cut his head and that he dragged or threw their sister in such a way as to cause bruising to her arm and neck . |
| 15 | They have played the roles so often that the women must be part of their lives . |
| 16 | He was on his feet so swiftly that she drew back automatically , worried about being here at night in her dressing-gown , and her action brought a black frown to his face . |
| 17 | The simultaneous plunges in share and property prices have weakened banks ' capital ratios so drastically that no single Japanese bank boasts a Triple A credit rating . |
| 18 | She was silent and acquiescent , however , so he climbed in and drove her round several blocks , just for the joy of it , taking the sharp corners so fast that her tyres shrieked in protest . |
| 19 | In the following example from the organ pedal melody of the Entrée in Messiaen 's Messe de la Pentecôte , only four pitches are used , yet the composer reshapes the rhythms and note-orders so skilfully that there is no feeling of repetitiousness or monotony : In Example 17 , from the slow movement of Bartók 's Fourth String Quartet , we have a wonderfully sweeping melody which seems to grow out of the first bar . |
| 20 | Vincent Canby in The New York Times felt that the film was often ‘ not terribly funny , at just those moments when it tries the hardest , and it sometimes wears its social concerns so blatantly that they look like warpaint ’ , but concluded that it ‘ is an important movie by one of our most interesting directors ’ . |
| 21 | I felt my parents ' anxieties about both their own and their children 's lives so keenly that they became my own , quite against my will , and I had to fight to reject them . |
| 22 | Instead , this is the evidence that God 's forgiveness possesses our lives so powerfully that we are given the strength to forgive others in turn . |
| 23 | Descartes had held that such a language could be so devised as to ‘ assist men 's judgement , representing matters so clearly that it would be almost impossible to go wrong ’ . |
| 24 | The Labour Party , or its thinking wing , is polishing its credentials so remarkably that Mr Smith 's team will look quite different when they get to meet us all again in the polling booth . |
| 25 | And do we take ourselves and our responsibilities so seriously that our worries are transmitted to our offspring ? |
| 26 | The only purpose of this sweet liquid is to please insects so greatly that they become addicted to it and devote all possible time during the flowering season to collecting it . |
| 27 | The volumes , bound in green leather and tooled in gold , were identical in size and fitted the bookshelves so precisely that the effect was more of an artist 's trompe-l'oeil than of a working library . |
| 28 | But the plains , savannahs , rivers and hills , all the way from Samburu down to the Masai Steppe , proved fruitful and the Masai built up their strength through the acquisition of women and cattle so successfully that they chased out the other tribes who were obliged to cling to the mountains or secrete themselves in the forests , land useless for cattle . |
| 29 | Enkidu now dreamt that they had offended the gods so deeply that one of them must die , and he promptly declined into a fatal illness . |
| 30 | Some visually handicapped children will overcome their difficulties so well that they are indistinguishable from their fully sighted classmates , but the effort needed may have a cost for them that is not always appreciated . |