Example sentences of "so [adj] that in " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was remembering long and hot arguments with Milly and Helen in Liverpool where she , Alice , had said that their attitude amounted to a contempt for men so total that in effect they suppressed all serious thought about them . |
| 2 | Shakespeare 's plays are so rich that in every age they can produce fresh meanings and even those who deny his universality agree on his cultural importance . |
| 3 | Shakespeare 's plays are so rich that in every age they can produce fresh meanings and even those who deny his universality agree on his cultural importance . |
| 4 | Production had sunk so low that in November , Black November , not a single film went into production in any of the country 's studios . |
| 5 | Contrary to popular belief , recent studies reveal that wood ( especially firewood in the shape of logs rather than small twigs and branches ) has become so scarce that in many villages only the rich can afford to buy it . |
| 6 | The French economy was so weak that in 1953 it had to renege on an OEEC agreement of two years earlier . |
| 7 | At the end of September Violet came home for a long weekend and Perdita was so bloody-minded that in despair Daisy escaped to Harvest Festival for an hour of peace . |
| 8 | The climb was so steep that in places it could be made only with the help of ropes . |
| 9 | Exports , which used to be the engine of growth , are down and imports are way up — by so much that in 1990 Korea experienced its first current-account deficit in five years . |
| 10 | Soil structure has declined so much that in 1984 The Soil Survey of England and Wales calculated that 44 per cent of UK arable land was vulnerable to erosion . |
| 11 | The interesting thing of course was his ro , his brother Robert was a civil engineer and the story goes , of course , they disagreed so much that in the end George said okay Robert you can have the civil engineers , I 'll start with mechanical engineers ! |
| 12 | Scholarship [ Wissenschaft ] , art and philosophy are now growing together inside me so much that in any case I 'll be giving birth to centaurs one day . |
| 13 | ‘ In fact , Jason reminds people of Ellery so much that in some parts of Yorkshire they refer to him as Black Pearl II . |
| 14 | Matters became so serious that in August 1979 Sir Maurice Oldfield , the former Chief of MI6 — and model for John Le Carre 's fictional spy master George Smiley — was sent to Northern Ireland to cover the differences between MI6 , MI5 , Army intelligence and the RUC . |
| 15 | Why , the galaxy is so vast that in the latter case I could continue to pose — and behave — as an Inquisitor ; though I would truly be a renegade … ’ |
| 16 | The paperwork was so vast that in 1988 I had to add an entire floor in my house in Ireland to accommodate it , and that turned out not to be enough . |
| 17 | The Third Programme 's elitist appeal ( as it would now be called ) to a minority ‘ whose tastes , education and mental habits enable them to take pleasure in close and responsive listening to broadcasts of artistic and intellectual distinction ’ ( Annan , 1977 , p. 12 ) was so limited that in 1957 it was confined to weekday evenings and weekends from 2.30 onwards . |
| 18 | Much of the factory food we eat is so tasteless that in desperation people reach for the brown sauce , tomato ketchup or pickles to perk it up . |
| 19 | .. [ which ] in the case of people who are not constitutionally sound becomes so dangerous that in many cases it develops into a ‘ consumption ’ … and the wisest course for such people to adopt is to leave England and cross the sea . |
| 20 | The run-off from the pig factories is so high in nutrients and so voluminous that in warm summers the entire Adriatic stinks of rotting algae and dead fish . |
| 21 | I was so innocent that in spite of our so-called training , of all the propaganda , I had never really been able to believe that someone might want to kill me . |
| 22 | Erm I 'm not so sure that in some cases er it , it 's to our members benefit . |
| 23 | A point may be reached when the external stresses on any level become so great that in order to defend , repair and maintain order in the system the healing powers produce symptoms and signs of what we call an illness or disease . |
| 24 | The mechanism is so effective that in the human body a partial vacuum of 6 mm Hg exists in the tissue spaces from which the lymph originates . |
| 25 | Indeed the authorities became so concerned that in 1935 she became the first cartoon character to be censored . |
| 26 | Mann considered these objective to be so important that in January 1897 he gave up the secretaryship of the Independent Labour Party which he had held since 1894 to devote himself to the continental agitation , especially in Rotterdam , Antwerp and Hamburg , which had been started in the previous year . |
| 27 | The movement in Preston was so successful that in 1911 the school organised a jamboree for the Scouts and Guides of the district , and a total of 420 Scouts and Guides from all parts of Preston and district took part . |
| 28 | In Costa Rica , weekend workshops for women refugees were established by AMES and proved so successful that in June 198 ] a training centre was opened . |
| 29 | After his father 's death in 1885 the cable companies persuaded him to set up his own manufacturing business , Muirhead & Company , which was so successful that in 1894 he was able to take over his father 's old firm when it was finally wound up . |
| 30 | This was so successful that in May 1873 they took a lease on the Small Hall at the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly , and opened 26 May 1873 . |