Example sentences of "so [adv] that [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The burrows of these robber wasps are usually concealed so skilfully that few other animals are able to find them and rob them . |
| 2 | She saw the children of her other daughters Ann and Beth most market days , but encountered Victoria so rarely that each time she had altered beyond recognition . |
| 3 | Julia 's own needs rose to answer that despairing cry so powerfully that all her carefully nurtured detachment melted away . |
| 4 | The original windows were steel-framed , in a stone mullion setting , and leaked so badly that all the conventional draught excluders proved useless ; my secondary double glazing , despite multiple magnetic and spring clips , was being blown out by wind pressure . |
| 5 | Rose 's hands were shaking so badly that some of the contents of the glass spilled on her dress . |
| 6 | There is real danger in prizing , let us say , speaking in tongues ( which I believe can be a real gift of the Holy Spirit ) so highly that those who lack it are regarded as second-class Christians if Christians at all . |
| 7 | The number of books , theses and bound copies of periodicals is increasing so greatly that many libraries have a serious storage problem . |
| 8 | It grinned so broadly that both ends almost met behind its head . |
| 9 | The usurpation of 1483 happened so quickly that many of the duchy servants were presented with a fait accompli , whereupon as usual they backed the crown ( which now happened to be worn by their erstwhile chief steward ) . |
| 10 | The usurpation of 1483 happened so quickly that many of the duchy servants were presented with a fait accompli , whereupon as usual they backed the crown ( which now happened to be worn by their erstwhile chief steward ) . |
| 11 | This was written so quickly that several errors occurred , one being the omission of the name of the person who had done much of the work since September : Marvin Hawkins , the graduate student . |
| 12 | So still that all she could count on was her own heat , her own response ; so still that she was alone with the moment , her own delight , the sound of her own voice crying out . |
| 13 | It is deeply embedded in Western culture — so deeply that few are aware , for example , how far both Freud and Jung integrated it into Western psychological theories . |
| 14 | British and Empire troops dug in and organized their defences so rapidly that all German counter-attacks the following day were thrown back and even more ground gained . |
| 15 | The one who was sharing Tony 's bed — and sharing it so enthusiastically that neither of them heard Folly 's approaching footsteps until she walked right into the room . |
| 16 | It has been suggested so far that many academic lawyers and policemen share the view that where a woman has sexual intercourse with a man , she should be regarded in law as having consented to it save in exceptional circumstances as where violence or the threat of it is used . |
| 17 | But the pendulum had swung so far that some return to less than enthusiasm was inevitable . |
| 18 | Writing this down , I realize she is afraid , but this morning she shared her fear so publicly and laughed so heartily that this did n't strike me till now . |
| 19 | So before that most believers , like the young Darwin , took it for granted that everything in the Bible was true in a simple way . |
| 20 | So now that these two have offered to help me , I should not be suspicious . |
| 21 | The sets of values embedded in one 's goals in childhood have to be modified so radically and conflicts resolved so ruthlessly that few attempt it . |
| 22 | He screamed so loudly that all the other animals ran to help him . |
| 23 | Most important of all , he did them so well that those who saw him then still today , thirty-seven years on , speak of him with awe . |
| 24 | The lily grew so fast that each day it filled twice the amount of space that it did the day before . |
| 25 | Right now I should be putting the frighteners on the lot of them — by flinging Rainbow back behind the wheel , and sending the taxi southwards down the northbound carriageway at a speed so fast that all the aunties ' lives flash in a whizzing 360-degree pan before their eyes , or by rendering the whole equipage airborne while the driver uses the remnants of her chopped-chicken-liver-on-rye to strafe the unsuspecting Anglicans of Wherwell , Winchester and Nether Wallop . |
| 26 | The leaded petrol market is shrinking so fast that some major petroleum companies have discontinued refining leaded petrol . |
| 27 | It can not be argued so categorically that this was the sole source of the style in the twelfth century or that it would not soon have developed in a similar manner elsewhere if the Île de France had not then produced it . |
| 28 | is it you know erm I mean I feel so so passionately that that we should keep going but |
| 29 | When waves crash over the reef , the fish swims into a crevice , sticks up its bony trigger and locks itself in place so firmly that neither ocean currents , hungry predators nor inquisitive skin divers can extract it . |
| 30 | The only shapes that fit together so closely that all their walls are common with those of their neighbours are triangles , squares and hexagons . |