Example sentences of "so [adj] that [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therein is part of the magic of cinema : to implant a visual image so strong that somewhere in the psyche the cinematic illusion becomes as real or as powerful as any actual experience . |
| 2 | Some can be so strong that regardless of the consequences they compel action . |
| 3 | If your hunger of gold bee so insatiable that onely for the desire you have thereto , you disquiet so many nations , … |
| 4 | The slogan is so grey-haired that even at party conferences it would n't get a ripple of applause . |
| 5 | Not so much that here on a fine June morning a man lay murdered , but that he , Wexford , had found him . |
| 6 | But , poorly placed as X Corps was for any new attack , its position on either side of Fort Douaumont was so untenable that just by sitting still it was losing 230 men a day to French shellfire . |
| 7 | ‘ The Russian Empire ’ , wrote Catherine II in 1764 , ‘ is so large that apart from the Autocratic Sovereign every other form of government is harmful to it , because all others are slower in their execution and contain a great multitude of various horrors , which lead to the disintegration of power and strength more than that of one Sovereign , who possesses all the means for the eradication of all harm and looks on the general good as his own . ’ |
| 8 | And he , for his part , was feeling so euphoric that instead of shouting to his son to get up and stir his stumps , he had actually gone in there and put the envelope on Adam 's bedside table . |
| 9 | And dispensers full of candles , to be set when lit into iron trolleys — so many that even on a relatively deserted day when I was there , you could hear their crepitation . |
| 10 | The species grows wild in Europe and the near East , but gardeners have been selecting nice forms for so long that even by the 17th century , flowers could be had in white , purple , pale and deep yellow , large and small , and with the colours striped , feathered or flamed . |
| 11 | The pig feeding scheme was so successful that even with rationing , the amount of bacon consumed in nineteen forty one was greater than the annual pre-war consumption per head . |
| 12 | We now know this to be true of all the planets ; however , the effect is so small that only in the case of Mercury was it detectable by nineteenth-century astronomers . |
| 13 | The United States is so big that even in the twentieth century the inhabitants prefer to explore their own continent . |
| 14 | His story sounded so genuine that just for a moment she was tempted to tell him , but something held her back , a deep-seated fear of making a mistake . |
| 15 | In theory this should sort out the wheat from the chaff but the definition of wheat in the intelligence world is so wide that even with the best filter the net volume of material is of such staggering proportions that it is beyond any useful human assessment . |
| 16 | Most of Lewis and Harris and the uplands of South Uist have a very low Potential Water Deficit , as precipitation equals or even exceeds evapo-transpiration in all months of the year , and the uplands of southern Lewis , Harris and South Uist are so moist that even in summer ( April-September ) there is a PWS of over 500 mm . |