Example sentences of "so [adj] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following weekend , the French referendum on Sept. 20 on ratification of the Maastricht Treaty produced a majority in favour , but so narrow that it failed to dispel growing doubts about the integration process . |
| 2 | I was invited to write this article before the election , around the proposition that the policy differences between the parties were so narrow that it did not really matter who won — a political worldweariness with which I sharply disagreed . |
| 3 | It was furnished with an ancient iron bedstead and a wooden table so decrepit that it collapsed as I walked past it . |
| 4 | When it was midnight and Rodrigo was fast asleep , the leper breathed against him between his shoulders , and that breath was so strong that it passed through him , even through his breast ; and he awoke , being astounded , and felt for the leper by him , and found him not ; and he began to call him , but there was no reply . |
| 5 | It was as if I suffered from an optical illusion so strong that it consumed my other senses . |
| 6 | A physical longing so strong that it seemed her very survival must be linked to it . |
| 7 | Maybe hatred could grow so strong that it became a force of its own , he thought — a real physical force . |
| 8 | There was no flat black Córdoba hat , but it was the same man and Maggie felt an almost bitter rush of disappointment , so strong that it took her by surprise . |
| 9 | This camp was so strong that it remained as a major fortress for the Garonne region for centuries to follow . |
| 10 | At that time of year the sun was so low that it shone directly into the livingroom during the whole of its brief traverse of the horizon . |
| 11 | Constance could not decide whether or not his diffidence sprang from fear or indifference , and she found it puzzling that someone as confident as Nicky in every other area of his life should be so timid when it came to love . |
| 12 | Very soon , even before they went under dome , Arcady surrounded them from horizon to horizon , its size so prodigious that it banished all Ari 's ideas of what a city might be . |
| 13 | The music they played gradually grew familiar to Alice ; it was music for the violin , the famous Violin Concerto , and it sounded very strange on the flute and guitar , so strange that it took her a moment or two to recognize it . |
| 14 | It was a movement so subtle that it seemed to occur from the corner of her eye . |
| 15 | The appeals court found that the Koons copying of the photo was so complete that it went beyond the bounds of the ‘ fair use ’ doctrine , which allows artists , authors and journalists to ‘ quote ’ from other works . |
| 16 | His triumph was so complete that it seemed to him that he must surely radiate some evident joy . |
| 17 | Unfortunately the material at the tide-line was so sloppy that it ran out of the probe and no cores were brought home . |
| 18 | Her throat was so dry that it hurt . |
| 19 | Sometimes she was so funny that it seemed she ought to be given a show of her own . |
| 20 | So funny that it hurt . |
| 21 | The transition was so abrupt that it took her by surprise . |
| 22 | An instance is provided by the civil war between Pompey and Caesar in the first century BC , when hoarding was so prevalent that it caused a crisis of liquidity . |
| 23 | There was one girl in particular who interested Harriet , a small girl with hair cut gamin short , whose face was so expressive that it seemed to reflect every one of the emotions that they were all feeling , these midinettes who had basted hemlines and stitched hooks and eyes into place , positioned trimmings and sewed them into place with such tiny stitches that they were all but invisible to the naked eye . |
| 24 | Johanna was so popular that it took police a day to talk to all her friends after she was reported missing . |
| 25 | Finally , though it must be generally accepted that individuals can not be protected from foolish actions based on an inadequate knowledge of the law , the situation following the 1954 Act was so complex and , because of the inevitable unpredictability of the necessity for compulsory purchase , so risky that it appeared likely ( in retrospect at least ) that public opinion would demand a further change . |
| 26 | The room , painted a white so fresh that it seemed pale blue , was cool and soothing . |
| 27 | Ironically the price of sterling went up so high that it made it very difficult for us to sell our other manufactured goods and many people are now of the belief that because of the North Sea oil price rises , this had an adverse affect on our economy , making it more difficult for us to sell manufacturing goods because the pound was very strong against other currencies . |
| 28 | The tension in the room was so high that it flowed like an invisible electric charge . |
| 29 | The insurance company had claimed that the system for calculating punitive awards — to punish wrongdoers and deter future misconduct — was so irrational that it violated the company 's constitutional right to be treated fairly . |
| 30 | But knowledge develops unevenly ; Dewey 's luck was not so conspicuous when it came to , say , radio engineering , where relatively simple new subjects end up with a classification symbol of twelve digits or more . |