Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] be [adv] [adj] [that] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Friendship between domestic horses is well known , and the need for attachment is so strong that lone horses will become firm friends with cows , goats , pigs and even people . |
| 2 | But the impression that he had been caught off guard was so fleeting that Polly was sure she must have imagined it . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Further , the rate of progress is so rapid that what one learns at school or university is always a bit out of date . |
| 5 | Soon the fog of freedom is so thick that it is difficult to remember just what song they were supposed to be playing in the first place . |
| 6 | The Foreign Office and the Ministry of Defence were acutely aware that the Republic of South Africa is the sole stable country in Africa ; that its government is opposed to the increasing presence of the USSR and China in Africa and that it controls the sea route to the Indian Ocean where the USSR has mounted a powerful naval challenge . |
| 7 | What proved particularly shocking in this instance was that the licensing of firearms was so haphazard that a 16-year-old Whitechapel youth , who had already stood trial on a charge of wounding his 16-year-old girlfriend with a revolver , could obtain a licence at a later date without even having to show proof of his age . |
| 8 | The procedures which voluntary bodies like ourselves have to follow to obtain small amounts of funding are so intimidating that one wonders whether the effort is worth while , because funding is only the beginning — we have to organise the supply of materials , hire or loan of equipment , payment for purchases , as well as getting the volunteers on and off site and ensuring the work is carried out properly . |
| 9 | At the surface of radius r the term ( ) in the Schwarzschild metric becomes zero ; the curvature of space–time is so severe that we can only hope to give a consistent account of conditions using GR . |
| 10 | Very soon , however , it was realised that the fall of rock was so extensive that it would take weeks to reach John and , naturally , the initial urgency waned . |
| 11 | One moment halfway up the straight it looked as if Eddery might have cut it too fine ; the next it was a question of how far he would win by , for this burst of speed was so decisive that it made the top horses in Europe look one-paced . |
| 12 | The pain of the individual 's sense of loss is so great that he withdraws from relating to any object he perceives as having authority as a way of masking the pain . |
| 13 | The foreman of his jury wrote a letter to " The Times " : " Where a jury has to decide , as men and women of the world , " how much " " , the degree of uncertainty is so great that a random answer , consistent only with a total lack of any sort of yardstick , can be expected . |
| 14 | The power of celluloid is so seductive that we 're often unaware of how all-pervasive — and persuasive — its message can be . |
| 15 | Not with a thing like a outputs of aspirin , I mean everyone in Boots knows what the outputs of aspirin are just strange that they are in fact three times what we 'd thought they were and we 've course there 's Crooks , course there 's this , course there 's that tremendous discernment , tremendous understanding but if you have n't got that tremendous understanding , you 've just joined the company , you think you know something and you do n't because not what they think they are |
| 16 | The society of Raasay was so self-contained that he could hold it in his palm and turn it this way and that . |
| 17 | Charles III of Spain was well aware that his country , unlike France , could not support a long , full-scale war ; a sudden , successful invasion was another matter , and , in August 1778 , the Spaniards suggested an immediate attack by their joint fleets , as a preliminary to a major landing . |
| 18 | Am I being told that the law of England is so deficient that , if one assaults a person by driving a car at them to the danger of that person 's life or property — whether or not one damages either — that is not a crime known to the common law of England , and would it not attract the most condign penalties ? |
| 19 | The river Exe on the outskirts of Exeter was so high that it was too dangerous for trains to use bridges and flooding closed two other lines . |
| 20 | My own opinion is that the salaries of judges are so low that they do not attract the best brains . |
| 21 | There are some whose fear of instability is so great that they would prefer a return to the old divisions . |
| 22 | The current level of intelligence is so poor that over half the members of active service units on the mainland have no previous police or intelligence ‘ form ’ ( which is one reason why internment would not work ) . |
| 23 | Suppose the origin of intelligence is so improbable that it has happened on only one planet in the universe , even though life has started on many planets . |
| 24 | It applies whenever the defendant raises the defences of justification and fair comment , and will apply if the defence is to be qualified privilege unless the evidence of malice is so overwhelming that no reasonable jury would sustain the privilege . |
| 25 | The vast majority of parents are more frightened that their children will be abducted than anything else , according to a report out today . |
| 26 | Her changes of mood were so bewildering that he had no idea what she was , angel or devil . |
| 27 | These days the practice of story-telling is so rare that it has acquired the status of an art form . |
| 28 | It could also be that the chain of distribution is so complicated that margins are pared to nothing . |
| 29 | June 1873 , the Prince and Princess of Wales held a garden party there , at which Queen Victoria , also the Shah of Persia , were present , and the list of guests was so long that it filled three columns of the Times . |
| 30 | The people of Stamford were passionately anxious that the railway should come their way , for it was plain enough that the great coaching trade , by which they lived , was doomed . |