Example sentences of "[vb pp] so [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's something which has developed so quickly that it 's almost ahead of us ( as it were ) in terms of planning . |
| 2 | In recent years , it has been argued that the position and powers of the Prime Minister have altered so considerably that it makes sense to talk about the rise of prime ministerial government and the transformation of the Cabinet into yet another " dignified " part of the constitution . |
| 3 | She had stopped so suddenly that he obviously thought he 'd distressed her . |
| 4 | This last was uttered so sharply that the dog at once lay down , uttering a whimper as he rested his head on his paws , dark eyes longingly fixed on the newcomer . |
| 5 | Frankie felt himself gripped more tightly , then shaken so violently that his teeth rattled . |
| 6 | While pursuing a complaint through the grievance procedure is sometimes worthwhile , you do not forfeit your right to claim constructive dismissal if you have been treated so badly that you decide that raising the matter through the company 's internal procedures will not help you to achieve a fair deal . |
| 7 | The blue component of incoming solar radiation is scattered so severely that it appears to our eyes to be coming from the entire sky . |
| 8 | Durham 's arrival in 1992 has come so smoothly that the wonder is that the gap following Glamorgan 's 1921 elevation was so long . |
| 9 | Yet the boy had insinuated so knowingly that the Commander had begun to wonder if perhaps he suffered from lapses of memory . |
| 10 | Indeed in Lylsland Church in Paisley this fetish was carried so far that even the common cup used by the minister and elders on either side , had three wee individual cups soldered inside the brim , lest their lips should touch . |
| 11 | Divided plants will take hold of the soil and grow new roots more quickly if they are replanted so quickly that the plant hardly knows it has been out of the ground . |
| 12 | The most powerful were imprisoned ; traitors were beheaded and Catholic landowners like the Roscarrocks were fined so heavily that they were forced to sell property and make do with fewer and fewer servants . |
| 13 | Before he could get to the specimen , its entrails had decomposed so badly that they had to be thrown away , so it was a gutted specimen that he eventually saw . |
| 14 | They had done so well that the convent put photographs of the two girls in the local paper . |
| 15 | I am delighted that they have done so well that it is now proposed , even in these difficult times , to increase their establishment . |
| 16 | He went off at a steady trot and I thought as I had done so often that there could n't be many noblemen in England like him . |
| 17 | It was all done so genteelly that it set McAllister 's teeth on edge . |
| 18 | And it was done through a trust then , and it was done so quietly that they had n't time to object . |
| 19 | The children were wedged so tightly that it was difficult to move . |
| 20 | It can not be argued so categorically that this was the sole source of the style in the twelfth century or that it would not soon have developed in a similar manner elsewhere if the Île de France had not then produced it . |
| 21 | The exclusion of the courts It has been argued so far that the methods of control and accountability introduced by the 1985 Act leave much to be desired . |
| 22 | For we , like all animal species , have an optimum group size and it is one that we have exceeded so dramatically that our species is already well on its way to massive self-destruction . |
| 23 | but they 're gon na taxed so heavily that they ca n't afford to live in it under this new tax ! |
| 24 | The Spanish Armada was defeated so decisively that the English often reckoned that their command of the sea began then , although it was never secure until the end of the seventeenth century . |
| 25 | ‘ Hullo ! ’ , and this may be said so softly that it is almost inaudible and we only see the nostrils tremble . |
| 26 | It should be clear from what I have said so far that the police national computer is exactly that — for use by the police in the United Kingdom . |
| 27 | Jenny , her half-sister , eighteen years old and five years younger than herself , had written so positively that she would be at the airport to meet her . |
| 28 | Searle glosses Foucault 's comment by saying , ‘ The text is written so obscurely that you ca n't figure out exactly what the thesis is ( hence ‘ obscurantisme ’ ) and then when one criticizes it , the author says , ‘ Vous m'avez mal compris ; vous êtes idiot ' ’ ( hence ‘ Terroriste ’ ) . ’ |
| 29 | This was written so quickly that several errors occurred , one being the omission of the name of the person who had done much of the work since September : Marvin Hawkins , the graduate student . |
| 30 | Similarly , if the gravitational mass of the proton were significantly different , one would not have had stars in which these nucleides could have been built up , and if the initial expansion of the universe had been slightly smaller or slightly greater , the universe would either have collapsed before such stars could have evolved or would have expanded so rapidly that stars would never have been formed by gravitational condensation . |