Example sentences of "so [adj] that [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes but the trouble about it is that the English are so insular that lots of them do n't , do n't realize it or wo n't believe it . |
| 2 | This is what we 've achieved by extreme centralization and extreme specialization — a society so complex that everyone in it is winning the race . |
| 3 | Are the foundations of faith so shaky that nothing of any weight can be built on them ? |
| 4 | How she was so beautiful that everyone in Ireland loved her . |
| 5 | The work being too demanding and impossible for them to cope with or so undemanding that they under achieve becoming bored or disaffected . |
| 6 | Each also had a wood stove , and a bathroom so small that someone of Arnold Schwarzenegger proportions would have been afraid to enter it , for fear of never getting back out . |
| 7 | But television was so arrogant that none of them even knew that I had a previous reputation . |
| 8 | The pace is slow , so slow that lots of things are unfinished . |
| 9 | These machines are so rare that one like Ingrid 's , new , could cost £80,000 , and she might have had to wait four years for delivery . |
| 10 | The students from that time remembered a man with a sharp sense of the ridiculous ; who ragged them but was too shy to be intimate with them though they liked him much for his friendliness and his humour ; who was famous for long , sudden , and embarrassing silences ; who was so eccentric that none of them believed that he could later be a man of distinction in England or his Church ; a man who loved theology — they never met anywhere else a man who so loved theology , and who regarded theology as the highest intellectual activity for humanity ; a fierce defender of liberty of opinion , for Marxists as for anyone else ; whose principal theme was the glory of God , and who was evidently touched by his ideas of Plato ; who did not give the impression of a mind of exceptional ability — there was not enough knife in the mind — but who gave the impression of being an exceptional person ; who disturbed other people 's prayers in chapel with convulsive fidgets and sudden face-rubbings — they regarded him as tense in his devotions and were afraid of a nervous breakdown ; who had a manifest and rare mystical sense of the immediate presence of God , a presence so brilliant that it could almost overpower . |