Example sentences of "so great [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is of course not possible , and we should rather conclude that any intermediate , formed by the initial attack of Cl - on , must have no significant absorption in the spectral range studied , or that its concentration is never so great that it contributes significantly to the spectrum . |
| 2 | In the naked fear of falling in a space so huge that she did not know whether she was falling up or down , inward or outward , she met a fear so great that it burned away forever all the other fears . |
| 3 | Until now its speed had been so great that it had grown into a ravening monster , capable not only of swallowing the Residency , but of gulping down the banqueting hall as well . |
| 4 | The speed of her car was still so great that it took Chesarynth a while to realize the signs were n't complete . |
| 5 | The shock was so great that it brought tears to his eyes , and when he 'd turned off the tap and dried his hand , the tears did n't stop . |
| 6 | For there was about her cage a silence and stillness so great that it seemed as if she had disappeared . |
| 7 | The realisation left him with a feeling of anguish so great that it threatened to engulf him . |
| 8 | Felids produce the greatest amount of damage , so great that it has not been possible to obtain any bone samples large enough to quantify . |
| 9 | This problem is so great that it has become fashionable to call for a new kind of organization to put in place of managerial hierarchy , an organization that will better meet the requirements of what is variously called the Information Age , the Services Age or the Post-lndustrial Age . |
| 10 | He loved her too much even to be able to imagine such a thing ; Pavel 's was the love of Judas , a devotion so great that it encompassed even betrayal . |
| 11 | In Bohemia under Joseph II opposition to the burial of Protestants in cemeteries hitherto reserved for Catholics was so great that it required the presence of a considerable force of cavalry to ensure that one such burial took place ; while the disastrous flooding of 1785 , when the Danube broke its banks , was widely regarded as a divine punishment for the emperor 's impious attacks on the Church . |
| 12 | He says that the pain is so great that it brings tears to his eyes , makes him grumpy , and means he 's sometimes confined to his armchair for days on end . |
| 13 | The X-ray flux is so great when it emerges from the machine 's vacuum that it causes the air to fluoresce and , if focused , it can burn holes in paper rather like a powerful laser beam . |