Example sentences of "so [adv] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Night Goblins hate their old rivals the Dwarfs so intensely that they will often fight to the death rather than run away . |
| 2 | So presumably if they do n't get bids for those routes then they they ca n't do anything about it . |
| 3 | I felt my parents ' anxieties about both their own and their children 's lives so keenly that they became my own , quite against my will , and I had to fight to reject them . |
| 4 | But there are many teachers in many schools who feel the need to break out of the cycle of crisis management and low morale so keenly that they are prepared to make those commitments . |
| 5 | He attempted to plead insanity , but did it so effectively that they concluded he must be sane . |
| 6 | On the other hand , felids digest the molars of their prey so effectively that they are extreme members of category 5 or even could be put into another category , 6 , on their own ( Fig. 3. 21D-E ) . |
| 7 | As a body , they have influenced government and secured their future so effectively that they and their agencies are written by name into the Statute Book . |
| 8 | In most of the provinces … the natives used to copy one another so effectively that they could be looked upon as all identical … |
| 9 | Words such as peto contentus sis seem to have been used so widely that they soon raised no doubts or difficulties of interpretation . |
| 10 | In this he described how , by splitting a parallelepiped of calcite spar along its shorter diagonal , and then cementing the halves together with Canada balsam ( having a refractive index intermediate between those of the doubly refracting calcite spar ) , he was able to separate the two emergent beams so widely that they could be used independently . |
| 11 | In subsequent correspondence Technical Division were asked to confirm that the timing of the provision of the benefit to the non-resident or non-domiciled beneficiary was irrelevant , ie that it did not matter whether the income in question was paid to him in the year of assessment in which it arose or in a subsequent year , but Technical Division refused to confirm that this was the case on the grounds that the actual circumstances of particular cases tended to vary so widely that they felt unable to answer the question without more details . |
| 12 | Travel wholesaling is common practice today but Cooks pioneered it so successfully that they were issuing printed standard contracts to their agents by 1884 . |
| 13 | But the plains , savannahs , rivers and hills , all the way from Samburu down to the Masai Steppe , proved fruitful and the Masai built up their strength through the acquisition of women and cattle so successfully that they chased out the other tribes who were obliged to cling to the mountains or secrete themselves in the forests , land useless for cattle . |
| 14 | Vincent Canby in The New York Times felt that the film was often ‘ not terribly funny , at just those moments when it tries the hardest , and it sometimes wears its social concerns so blatantly that they look like warpaint ’ , but concluded that it ‘ is an important movie by one of our most interesting directors ’ . |
| 15 | For a while during the 1970s these counterurban tendencies were operating so powerfully that they replaced the North-South drift as a primary dimension of regional population change in Britain ( Champion , 1983 ) . |
| 16 | He could never trust his legs , especially when his shoes pinched so badly that they made his feet tingle and twitch with pins and needles . |
| 17 | However , they came across two of his friends and beat them so badly that they later died . |
| 18 | ‘ Filmophone ’ records were made of various colours of plastic , and had low surface-noise combined with great ruggedness ; but within a short time they warped so badly that they were unplayable . |
| 19 | Before he could get to the specimen , its entrails had decomposed so badly that they had to be thrown away , so it was a gutted specimen that he eventually saw . |
| 20 | One or two need to be kept on the cool side , otherwise they grow too fast and weaken themselves so badly that they die . |
| 21 | Seldom before have England needed him so badly as they go into tomorrow 's third Test in Bombay already beaten 2-0 in the series by India . |
| 22 | In some rocks their shells lie so thickly that they form solid bands . |
| 23 | They have pursued this dream so fiercely that they can not afford to admit any self-doubt . |
| 24 | They like foreigners so much that they dispute with one another as to who shall have and treat a foreigner in his house . |
| 25 | If we want parents to enjoy meetings so much that they will want to repeat the experience then a number of basic issues need to be addressed : |
| 26 | The producers liked the idea so much that they decided to make a two part series full of dancing , celebrations , cookery and food . |
| 27 | Apple liked the idea so much that they invested a 20% stake in Adobe making themselves the largest customer . |
| 28 | That is the ability to co-ordinate the actions of members of the society in cases in which they have reason to co-ordinate their actions , and the ability to do so better than they can . |
| 29 | Why did the peasants fear the cadres so terribly if they were representatives of ou great Communist Party ? … |
| 30 | A wag in the crowd quipped that it is so long since they have been in evidence , police enquiries are being hampered because no one can name or describe them . |