Example sentences of "so [vb pp] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he changed from an acoustic to an electric guitar so overloaded that it made the windows of the little studios rattle , you could still sometimes hear his feet rapping on the boards and the irregular chord sequences and the trademark himmahimmahimm drifting through the air . |
| 2 | Such cases will often have been treated as acute cystitis for a day or two , and may present to the casualty department or emergency room with a bladder so swollen that it mimics a twenty week pregnancy . |
| 3 | Filigree Street crosses its turnwise end in the manner of the crosspiece of a T , and the Broken Drum is so placed that it looks down the full length of the street . |
| 4 | Miss Hannah Hauxwell , dressed in men 's trousers and old jacket so torn that it looked as though savaging by wolf packs had once been part of her daily routine , looked at me mildly . |
| 5 | Gorbad Ironclaw was one of the most successful Orc leaders of all time : his campaign of destruction raged across the Empire and left the region of Solland so devastated that it has never fully recovered . |
| 6 | I was often called Hamlet because I so resembled my father 's appearance in his most famous film , the ‘ Coronation ’ Hamlet , so named because it had been released in Coronation year . |
| 7 | i.e. Theobald 's Road , leading from Southampton Row to Gray 's Inn Road , north of Holborn , east London , so named because it led to Theobalds in Hertfordshire where King James I had a hunting lodge in the early seventeenth century . |
| 8 | The next one was the Castle ford , so named because it lay directly under the castle rock , although almost two hundred feet below . |
| 9 | This bird is so named because it incubates its eggs in a mound of rotting vegetation . |
| 10 | The model is so named because it describes a mechanism designed to compel managers to act in the shareholders ' interests which depends on vesting owner-like rights in the shareholders , as mentioned , to appoint , monitor , and replace the most senior tier of management and to make certain other fundamental decisions . |
| 11 | This is a life so transformed that it stands in utter contrast to the life which comes naturally to us as human beings . |
| 12 | The resolution also ordered " all States in which there are funds of the Government of Iraq " to transfer proceeds to a UN escrow fund , and undertook to return to Iraq all monies so raised if it agreed to sell oil under UN supervision [ see pp. 38942 ; 38788-89 ; 38838 ; 39026 ; 39115 ] . |
| 13 | The original American ‘ Airknocker ’ — so called because it sounds exactly like an old vintage motorcycle — was powered by Aeronca 's own E-113C 40 hp engine , but the British C-100 version used a licence-built version of the famous horizontally-opposed twin , built by J.A.Prestwick Ltd. and designated the JAP-J99 . |
| 14 | So called because it dips automatically should a car approach from behind with all lights blazing . |
| 15 | Cellular radio is so called because it divides the country into small areas served by a radio base , and then divides each of these areas into ‘ cells ’ . |
| 16 | On into the Room Without a Name they had passed and through to the room it communicated with , the Room of Astonishment , so called because it had a cupboard in it with a little staircase inside that wound its way up into the loft . |
| 17 | Robert is team leader in the black back cell at the Coventry factory , so called because it deals with tiles that have a black PVC ply in the lamination . |
| 18 | Having set the backlight , bring in the key light , so called because it provides the photographic modelling and sets the general level of exposure . |
| 19 | Positive bias , so called because it has the effect of increasing the accessible success area of the catastrophe surface , results from a cultural environment orientated towards systems and standards , analysis and risk avoidance in R&D programmes . |
| 20 | But if the entire building is so damaged that it has to be torn down and rebuilt , the landlord collects from his insurer to rebuild . |
| 21 | In the night its silence and its matt , pewter gleam were alike deceptive , suggesting languor and sleep , while she knew from her memories of day that it was rushing down its bed with a tigerish fury and force , so concentrated that it generated no ripples and no sibilance . |
| 22 | The Ethiopian Parliament was so exasperated that it passed a unanimous resolution in 1968 begging Emperor Hailé Sellassié not to visit Italy until the monument 's return . |
| 23 | There is an initial paradox here of some importance for the future : the monastic life which he found at Canterbury appeared to him so decayed that it needed a new beginning , yet he did not sweep it away and establish an up-to-date archiepiscopal church served by a community of secular clerks , on the pattern of Rouen or Lyons or most other cathedral churches in Europe . |
| 24 | To uncouple , the tug drew away and the leg was so balanced that it dropped to earth by gravity : if this leg was , through any reason tight , and it failed to function , the trailer fell to the ground , and so cast its load . |
| 25 | After Mrs Wordingham 's death later in 1989 , Mr Wordingham applied to the High Court for rectification of the will under s 20(1) ( a ) of the Administration of Justice Act 1982 , which states that ‘ if the court is satisfied that a will is so expressed that it fails to carry out the testator 's intentions , in consequence — ( a ) of a clerical error … it may order that the will shall be rectified so as to carry out his intentions … ‘ . |
| 26 | By the end of the nineteenth-century , the biological model of sexuality was so constructed that it had become perfectly coherent to argue that excessive sexual desire in a woman was pathological . |
| 27 | Factors such as the parasitic reliance on the stage and the book , the lack of attention given to screenwriting , the lack of flexibility in studio-based production and , at Stoll , a studio floor so constructed that it accommodated the noise and bustle of five films at the same time , had a deadening effect on anyone who came into the industry with new ideas or fresh visions . |
| 28 | However , Brenda 's turn is so constructed that it starts in London English with a statement about what happened , and switches to Creole at " cause " ( which could be London English or Creole ) — precisely the point where she begins her explanation of why she acted in this way . |
| 29 | ( iv ) Differently , it seems difficult to accept that consciousness is tolerably conceived when it is so conceived that it follows that anything that can be regarded as passing through certain sequences of causal or logical states is conscious . |
| 30 | As a result of Napoleon III 's grave error of judgement , the affair of the Holy places became so inflamed that it set the powers on a collision course which led to the Crimean War . |