Example sentences of "[noun] is [adv] [adj] that the " in BNC.

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1 The Library Association is deeply concerned that the imposition of these bans constitutes a major breach of the traditional principle that public libraries should be a neutral and non-partisan service , a principle which goes back to the beginning of the public libraries in the middle of the nineteenth century .
2 Recommendations may include safety factors in practical areas , for instance , home economics or chemistry , and suggested alternative activities in cases where sight loss is so severe that the general activity is inappropriate , for example , judo or weight lifting instead of football .
3 Also , the neck is so straight that the frets have needed hardly any dressing at all .
4 The other reason is that Sir David is well aware that the sort of low-grade ‘ sex scandal ’ which is grist to the mil of the News of the Screws will not do in a paper that speaks to the Better Bred .
5 The practice is also concerned that the standard of care may depend on which area a person lives in and what money is available .
6 The capacity and flexibility of desk-top computers is now such that the optimal sharing of processing , storage and presentation of material between computer and operator may well be quite different from the traditional combination of human memory and material on paper .
7 Waddell is most emphatic that the old man was neither blindfolded nor gagged .
8 However , the number of people who return to education once they have left school or college is so low that the age of finishing full-time education is often used as a simple indicator .
9 The clubhead is changing from going up to coming down and the resultant force is so great that the wrists break more fully … if you 're relaxed .
10 He is such a lucid writer — and although he defends himself ably against the charge of superficiality ( which has been levelled since I was a student ) the breadth of his scholarship is so immense that the defence seems unnecessary .
11 The words ‘ reasonably satisfied ’ and ‘ substantially fewer ’ are selected deliberately ; for the alternative is so grave that the choice ought not to be made on only a narrow margin of evidence or probability .
12 The glissando is so rapid that the repetitions of certain notes in it are not heard .
13 But for larger numbers of mutational steps , even in the case of the biomorphs with their nine little genes , the mathematical space of all possible trajectories is so vast that the chance of two trajectories ever arriving at the same point becomes vanishingly small .
14 The lintel is so low that the only man who can enter is the man who is down on his knees .
15 Seasonal work is so uncertain that the pickers are forced to work whatever the conditions just to make a few extra pesos .
16 The law is now such that the courts will restrain a local authority from spending public funds on any purpose not authorised by law .
17 But Beaumont is already confident that the eight-year-old will make a bold bid to pull off the feat in 12 months ' time .
18 Even so , the margin for error is so huge that the upshot of the calculation remains valid : among the world 's population of E. coli , every possible mutation is occurring an enormous number of times a day .
19 The Committee is not convinced that the proposal for ‘ Community Supervision Orders ’ [ CSOs ] put forward by the Royal College of Psychiatrists will provide the solution for ensuring patients receive the care they need .
20 The migration is so great that the countryside looks almost emptied .
21 But the degree of sensitivity on this issue is now such that the emigration of a single Serbian individual or family is blown up to a national crisis .
22 It has been argued that human wealth is so illiquid that the greater is this h ratio , the greater will be the demand for money to compensate for the limited marketability of human wealth .
23 Thus in the above example , investors are willing to pay slightly more in terms of time value for calls than for puts but the difference is so slight that the indicator is in this case quite inconclusive .
24 The average age of the overseas membership is somewhat higher that the UK average as there are very few younger members to join these branches .
25 The tank 's lid is so good that the suction is enough to seal it , with the ring clamp .
26 Time is assumed discrete , but the time period is so short that the probability of two or more vacancies coming to the individual 's notice within any given period is zero .
27 Messenger is not , of course , suggesting that women 's writing in the period is so fragmented that the concept is basically useless , but that the writing of women can not be reduced to a single critical proposition .
28 Initial tests of Mainsborne have revealed one problem : at times the electrical noise on the mains is so intense that the signals fail to arrive .
29 The combination of results needed to deprive the Republic of their first appearance in the World Cup finals is so fantastic that the possibility can be discounted .
30 The publishing director of Burke 's Peerage is apparently concerned that the Prince ( and even more so the Princess ) of Wales are letting the side down in matters of etiquette .
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