Example sentences of "so strong [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it was midnight and Rodrigo was fast asleep , the leper breathed against him between his shoulders , and that breath was so strong that it passed through him , even through his breast ; and he awoke , being astounded , and felt for the leper by him , and found him not ; and he began to call him , but there was no reply . |
| 2 | It was as if I suffered from an optical illusion so strong that it consumed my other senses . |
| 3 | A physical longing so strong that it seemed her very survival must be linked to it . |
| 4 | Maybe hatred could grow so strong that it became a force of its own , he thought — a real physical force . |
| 5 | If you choose a backing in the middle of the tonal range , such as a bright turquoise green , its colour will be so strong that it overpowers those of the pressed materials . |
| 6 | There was no flat black Córdoba hat , but it was the same man and Maggie felt an almost bitter rush of disappointment , so strong that it took her by surprise . |
| 7 | if you remember the question that the founding fathers faced was how do you create a government which is strong enough to endure and to defend the nation and defend the country yet a government which is not so strong that it erodes the rights of individuals within it , this is the , the essence of the , the problem of government as , as the founding fathers saw it . |
| 8 | In recent years the evidence for the health benefits of fibre , or ‘ roughage ’ as it used to be called , has grown so strong that it has filtered through from the medical journals and is now well known to the British and American public . |
| 9 | At the start of the contact the need to be stroked is so strong that it suppresses their fear . |
| 10 | This camp was so strong that it remained as a major fortress for the Garonne region for centuries to follow . |
| 11 | Christians see the power of God 's love as so strong that it overcomes sin and death . |
| 12 | On one side is the shattering power of time : This feeling of inevitability becomes so strong that it makes the poem comment on itself in surprised awareness — ‘ Oh fearful meditation ! ’ — and pushes on to an apparently unanswerable climax : ‘ Or what strong hand can hold his swift foot back ? / Or who his spoil of beauty can forbid ? ’ |