Example sentences of "so great [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | For pregnant women , or those who have just had babies , the pressures are sometimes so great that they become mentally disturbed . |
| 2 | The journals remain cheap and popular , but demand is so great that they are bought mostly by subscription , hardly ever from a news stand . |
| 3 | It can be assumed that this will eventually bottom out to include only those children whose handicap is so great that they require constant medical supervision of a highly sophisticated nature . |
| 4 | The dinner was a gloomy affair — ‘ … my guests ' dejection was so great that they turned away from food and drink ’ — but then came the telegram from the King . |
| 5 | Ski Scott Dunn brought informal luxury to Champery three years ago : now the demand is so great that they are expanding into Zermatt : 01–602 8029 . |
| 6 | In Manchester the demand for tickets was so great that they changed hands for upwards of eighty pounds . |
| 7 | It was therefore recognised that there might well be some dementia sufferers who could not be helped by this project because their needs would be so great that they would be more expensive to meet in the community than in an institution . |
| 8 | So even though we have a lot of tricky stuff to get right soundwise , the crew is so great that they can do it pretty much without us . |
| 9 | The writer then explores what research can tell us about the impact of national policies on families , the impact of community attitudes , children 's experiences of divorce and step-families and some of the traumas children suffer in the course of family life , sometimes so great that they are driven to run away and then incur other serious problems for which inadequate provision is made in the community as a whole . |
| 10 | In Normandy , indeed , their importance grew so great that they began to be promoted to bishoprics after about 1060 , a move reminiscent of Ottonian and Salian practice . |
| 11 | The differences between them and their mainland cousins were only small , but if such changes had taken place , was it not possible that over many millions of years , the cumulative effects on a dynasty of animals could be so great that they could bring about major transformations ? |
| 12 | But the serrated gratings must have sufficiently broken the crust of the brick-broken mutilated plastimetal that covers a great deal of the world that is an eyeball , and little light yellow-green stubs poked through , cos the Sun was still up there , way up there , even though someone had devised a new kind of force of matter transference and was attempting to move the Sun to his laboratory-country where it would be used to grow humlants — in which the old human brain was to be stretched in durable fibrosity and connected inextricably to root and flower , making rings of energy that took their partners for a whaltz or a flexitrot and multiplied their species by being fried on a plasetal plate whose temperature was so great that they never actually touched it but skimmed over , coming off the other side as a more-than-when-they-started . |
| 13 | The urge to return to the sea is now so great that they will wriggle out of a pond and cross dew-drenched meadows if that is necessary to reach a stream that will lead them to salt water . |
| 14 | Those changes appear to be so great that they will certainly still be affecting readers of this text in the 1990s . |
| 15 | The breadth of some of these banks is so great that they can not be attributed to marine erosion at low sea levels corresponding with glacial periods : the Nazareth bank near the Maldive Islands is about 350 km ( 220 miles ) long and reaches a maximum breadth of about 100 km ( 60 miles ) and lies almost uniformly at a depth of about 60 m ( 200 ft ) . |
| 16 | New care management systems of assessment without provision do not rest easily with training which has equipped the worker to provide direct care , and there is some evidence that workers find the disincentives so great that they will resign from such posts ( Huxley and Kerfoot , 1992 ) . |
| 17 | Some risks are so great that they can not be tolerated under any circumstances , while others are so low that they can be tolerated without further justification ; between these extremes , assessment is needed . |
| 18 | What 's interesting is that the contrast between the two cities is so great that they could equally well be at opposite ends of the planet . |
| 19 | There are some whose fear of instability is so great that they would prefer a return to the old divisions . |
| 20 | Interest had been so great that they had not got around to marketing the idea elsewhere . |