Example sentences of "it [verb] so [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can it have changed much — or did it rain so pre-emptively that he can not have noticed the lovely inlets at Isleornsay , their green banked lands sloping to soft-coloured waters ? |
| 2 | Alas , there is no way this can be overcome but it occurs so rarely that it is not in itself an outstanding problem . |
| 3 | It came so fast that she hardly knew what had happened . |
| 4 | It happened so fast that Mike was left with his arm still outstretched , towards the dinner-jacketed body of his brother . |
| 5 | It happened so fast that her mind went into a spin , and she reeled dizzily , her gaze unfocused . |
| 6 | The next few gybes were the first I had ever done with speed all the way through the turn , in fact , it happened so quickly that I could n't change the rig fast enough — so then I had to work on the rig change . |
| 7 | An alternative to water in sprays is needed in the tropics where water is often very difficult to obtain or transport to the field ; it evaporates so rapidly that the effectiveness of sprays is further reduced . |
| 8 | It borrowed so heavily that the greater part of its peacetime revenue was mortgaged to service and repay its debt . |
| 9 | It grinned so broadly that both ends almost met behind its head . |
| 10 | Lima , where it rains so seldom that the city 's roofs are not designed to withstand more than a mild shower , the inhabitants are anxiously awaiting the worst . |
| 11 | In theory , it takes a few seconds for the machine to recognize a new card , but in practice it worked so fast that when I inserted the Flash RAM card and typed ‘ dir A ’ , the machine responded instantly with a list of the card 's contents . |
| 12 | At sea it rolled so violently that passengers on upper decks were far less ill than those in the special saloon . |
| 13 | ‘ It is amazing when it works — in the Scottish Open in February against Eva Webster it went so well that I near enough knocked both of us out . ’ |
| 14 | It went so well that the consultancy is now planning to hold more top notch dinners at Cottons . |
| 15 | It did so well that the King gave a charter to the ‘ gentlemen adventuring into Hudson 's Bay ’ which allowed them a monopoly of trade in the whole area of the rivers and streams running into the Bay . |
| 16 | It appeared so unexpectedly that it seemed to leap out of the ground . |
| 17 | It looked very attractive until it was washed , when it stretched so appallingly that it reached to her knees ! |
| 18 | The awesomely powerful heating and ventilation system makes another jet-like roar , but it works so well that you only need it on for short bursts . |
| 19 | In fact it works so well that within a few days of installing it friends were asking if they could fax me printed documents that they had always wanted to store on disk . |
| 20 | To my mind , it begins so well that it could easily be mistaken for a translation of an eighth-century hermit 's verse , composed in a beehive hut by a contented holy man of Old Ireland . |