Example sentences of "[be] so [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arguing that a dominant group may be so well entrenched that it is unaware of any potential challenge , Lukes points to the importance of socially and culturally patterned behaviour , to ways of acting and thinking which are taken for granted and which are rarely exposed to serious challenge . |
| 2 | Both class relations and gender relations , while they exist within their own histories , can nevertheless be so closely interwoven that it is theoretically very difficult to draw them apart within specific historic conjunctures . |
| 3 | ( One campus I knew of in a large industrial city used to be so strictly guarded that the students referred to it as the town 's ‘ second prison ’ . ) |
| 4 | But there are other causes of bad conditions as well as overcrowding : many prisons are old and decaying , and the newer prisons have often turned out to be so badly designed that they are not a noticeable improvement . |
| 5 | In this more specific area of debate , the issue is whether or not the child will be so badly handicapped that it will be unable to sustain a life which society would consider to be in any sense worthwhile . |
| 6 | How else could it be so swiftly known that a prominent member of the Royal College of Acupuncturists , say , had been picked up during the night and pinched for drunk-driving ? |
| 7 | Some cases are susceptible to medical treatment , some require intensive nursing care , most respond to education and training and a small minority may be so severely impaired that they may be detained in hospital or placed under guardianship . |
| 8 | If you try to press petals from a rose that is still closed , the petals nearest the centre will be so tightly curled that they wo n't press into a good shape , and you will have wasted your rose . |
| 9 | If the change is not well managed throughout this process , different groups ' interests may be so radically affected that the process has to degenerate into chaos before stability can be regained . |
| 10 | My thesis is that our institutions must be so structurally altered that , so far as regards permanent legislation , the will of the majority will always prevail against that of the party composing the executive for the time being , and that , whoever may form the government of the day will be compelled to follow procedures and policies compatible with the nature of Parliamentary democracy and the rule of freedom under law . |