Example sentences of "so [adv] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of 1864 he went to Bombay to superintend a large land reclamation scheme adjacent to the harbour , which he did so successfully that in 1873 the government of India formed the Bombay Port Trust with Ormiston as chief engineer . |
| 2 | A boxer before the war , Charles Nungesser had been smashed up so badly that by the time of Verdun he had to be lifted bodily into the cockpit and could only use one leg on the rudder controls . |
| 3 | Crocker had damaged the Midland so badly that in 1986 the Bank of England sent in Sir Kit McMahon , its deputy governor , as chairman and chief executive to sort things out . |
| 4 | He liked marriage so much that despite all the difficulties of his first attempt , when he met you he decided to try it again . |
| 5 | The wind came so swiftly that within half an hour we were reducing sail , taking water over the deck , and beginning to lumber into a building seaway . |
| 6 | If a trailer begins to ‘ snake ’ , the swinging often develops so quickly that within seconds there is no way of stopping it and avoiding going right off the road . |
| 7 | ‘ The Federation grew so quickly that in 1962 provincial councils were established to cater for the influx of new clubs . |
| 8 | The theme and each variation are extremely brief , only eleven bars , and each finishes so quickly and changes mood so rapidly that at a first hearing one can not possibly grasp the course of events . |
| 9 | By mid-June , the projection of the opinion polls was already suggesting that the majority favouring a measure of divorce legislation was declining so rapidly that by the time of the poll , the noes would have it . |
| 10 | After that its popularity spread so rapidly that by 1883 , the year of the National Apple Congress held at the society 's garden in Chiswick , 183 out of 231 exhibitors included it among the varieties they showed . |
| 11 | He moved so rapidly that by the time she had recovered enough to scream they were driving towards her flat . |
| 12 | From about 1780 onwards , the population grew so steadily and so rapidly that by 1950 the number of inhabitants had again increased by seven times . |
| 13 | The youthful Rundell appears to have shown his aptitude for business so rapidly that within three or four years Pickett , admittedly increasingly preoccupied by aldermanic affairs on his way to becoming lord mayor in 1789 , made him a partner . |
| 14 | The change in her had happened gradually , so gradually that at first I did n't notice . |
| 15 | The following day the dress rehearsal went so smoothly that after giving out his notes — the pause at the end of the third act , before Olwyn opened the cigarette box for the second time , was a whisker too long , and her response to Robert 's line to the effect that she 'd fabricated the person she loved a touch too quick — ; Meredith declared enough was enough . |
| 16 | To Joan , he confessed that he was ‘ not sure ’ so often that at one point she left the boat , determined to have the child on her own . |
| 17 | But Li Lu 's daughter slept so soundly that in the end Dai Huang 's daughter dressed quickly . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , Paul is saying that Jesus ' death affected him so profoundly that by standing in his shadow he is forgiven and justified . |
| 19 | In his judgement , the Lord Chancellor said , ‘ I am seldom called upon to decide in a case in which I felt so strongly that on one side or the other there had been abominable wickedness . ’ |
| 20 | Lack of an alternative summer team sport protected cricket between the wars and it benefited from a brief post-1945 resurgence in numbers , but then numbers fell so dramatically that by 1965 they stood at about a third of the post-1945 years . |
| 21 | Because of the closing weather , an element of urgency entered our expedition , and my companion started to speed up his pace so dramatically that within five minutes conversation between us was only possible by semaphore . |
| 22 | She managed so well that on the Wednesday in Hartford she even got her encore , which she had rehearsed and never had the chance to perform , ‘ The Last Rose of Summer ’ . |
| 23 | Lowe was quick to learn the various practices of the law profession , and decided upon conveyancing — transferring property from one person to another by purchase , lease or deed — as that branch of the law where his deafness was less of a handicap , and did so well that in the Michaelmas Term of 1829 , he took the prescribed oaths publicly in the Temple Hall and emerged as a Barrister of the Middle Temple — a most unprecedented event which created a sensation in the profession . |
| 24 | In fact it works so well that within a few days of installing it friends were asking if they could fax me printed documents that they had always wanted to store on disk . |
| 25 | Buttons landed perfectly and came away from the jump so well that by the time her father had collected himself and his horse Artemis and Buttons were alongside them . |
| 26 | But things have gone so well that by June 1993 he hopes to launch a further 20 growers . |
| 27 | Nonetheless , they did so well that from then on Emma was asked to contribute on a regular basis . |
| 28 | A big advantage of using a medium-speed film such as APE 100 is that it is fast enough for hand-held camera use but not so fast that on bright days creativity is limited by the necessary use of a small apertures or high shutter speed . |
| 29 | Then reality started to move so fast that by the time he caught up it was all over and they were parked on the hard shoulder . |
| 30 | The services were cut so drastically that at the time no one in their right mind would have forecast that they would become so bad . |