Example sentences of "so [adj] that their " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were like creatures so different that their scales of vision are incompatible . |
| 2 | The aquarium has been successful in reproducing anemones , nudibranchs and various shelled molluscs ; octopods ; Crustaceans , especially shrimps , with a view to commercial farming for the aquarium ; and starfish which have proved so bountiful that their eggs and young provide an endless supply of food for other specimens . |
| 3 | The interest of workers may well be higher wages — but not so high that their employer is driven from business . |
| 4 | This does n't contradict Galileo 's famous observations on the speeds of falling bodies ; the pumice fragments are so light that their aerodynamic properties rather than their weight control their rate of fall . |
| 5 | If so , then where the Aristotelians go wrong is not so much that their procedures do not get us knowledge , as that they have a restricted or incorrect notion of what knowledge actually is . |
| 6 | Antwerpers are so convinced that their city is best that other Belgians think them chauvinist . |
| 7 | ‘ Get yourself a good lawyer , and if somebody rips you off , punish them , and do it so hard that their ancestors hurt . ’ |
| 8 | Get yourself a good lawyer , and if somebody rips you off , punish them , and do it so hard that their ancestors hurt |
| 9 | Yet there will always be those whose love for Uncle Ted , now deceased , looms so large that their grief overwhelms their faith . |
| 10 | The higher the father 's status , the greater the child 's chance of attending a grammar rather than a secondary modern school , though the occupational group ‘ skilled manual workers ’ was so large that their children were by far the largest single group in all types of school . |
| 11 | There h have been cases where the person 's back muscles have pulled up so tight that their they 've formed an arch . |
| 12 | The force of their own gravity is so great that their collapse can not be halted at all . |
| 13 | Later on , when wafts of sulphurous fumes from the volcano still so frequent that their chariots were constantly on the move , despite having their wheels chocked with stones . |
| 14 | If Anglican vicars have left bat droppings to accumulate for so long that their ceilings are sagging , they have only themselves to blame . |
| 15 | The water is so shallow that their writhing humped backs break clear of the surface . |
| 16 | Around one third of pensioners are so poor that their basic state pension is topped up with other state benefits . |
| 17 | Dragons so numerous that their wings darkened the sky descended on the Chaos Host . |
| 18 | But the only reason for that relatively peaceful state of affairs was , quite simply , that Lisa had been so busy that their paths had very rarely crossed . |
| 19 | All oriental rug designs can be broadly divided into those which employ naturalistic representations of living forms and those which employ either totally geometric forms , or naturalistic forms that have been so abstracted that their origins are no longer recognizable . |
| 20 | Some people , such as writers , dancers , and painters , are so gifted that their communication becomes art . |
| 21 | Some stars will become so small that their gravitational fields will bend light to that point that it comes back toward the star . |
| 22 | The quanta are individually so small that their interactions , statistically averaged , appear continuous . |
| 23 | With such an effective way of victualling her young , the mother is able to retain them within her until they are so big that their sheer size makes them a burden and the mechanics of getting them out of her body becomes a real problem . |
| 24 | There is also a considerable amount of feedback from implementation which influences further policy making , and many policies are so skeletal that their real impact depends upon the way they are interpreted at the implementation stage . |
| 25 | AS CHILDREN , Arthur Ochs Sulzberger and his sister Judith were so close that their father called them Punch and Judy . |
| 26 | ‘ Not right at this moment , ’ he drawled , and he was so close that their bodies were only inches apart , and as he looked down at her mouth with narrowed eyes she felt her heart begin to race madly . |
| 27 | How can they be so certain that their judgements are fair and just ? |
| 28 | Advertising in the colour magazines is so expensive that their shiny pages are usually the preserve of manufacturers of cars , watches , television , expensive perfumes and the like . |