Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [be] [adv] [adj] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The society of Raasay was so self-contained that he could hold it in his palm and turn it this way and that . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The details of how they opened up the roof and lowered the man down through the tiles to the feet of Jesus are so vivid that the account obviously has some true foundation to it . |
| 7 | The males of Tidarren are so small that they can not even carry their full complement of mating implements and consequently amputate one of their two pedipalps . |
| 8 | The House , the country and the rest of Europe are well aware that my right hon. Friend the Member for Finchley ( Mrs. |
| 9 | Moreover , the axial inclination and orbital eccentricity of Venus are so small that seasonal variations are negligible . |
| 10 | The shortage of Pentiums is so bad that those that have them are said to be ‘ tea-bagging ’ them — moving their precious chips from system to system to prove to customers that their box works , then quickly back into the safe . |
| 11 | Gedge 's infatuation with Rigby was so powerful that it led him to agree that Duane , a guitarist , could join the group . |
| 12 | From the tarn , I followed my nose down to a cairn that stands on the shoulder above Deepdale Side where the view down Deepdale into Dentdale was so good that I sat and looked at it for a good half-hour until the thought that I needed to be home by late afternoon pushed me on down to the green lane of the old Craven Way . |
| 13 | Suggesting that life under Hitler was so bloody that even his deputy wanted to get out . |
| 14 | Also known as Fachen , Fachin , or the Diereach , this evil monster from Scotland is so ugly that simply looking upon one could result in death from heart failure . |
| 15 | Digital managers in Scotland were also aware that at least two other companies in America — Zilog and Hewlett-Packard — had developed similar strategies and used video programmes from those organizations in their planning and communications ( but without copying what they had done ) . |
| 16 | Services in Derbyshire were so busy that they needed to call for assistance from neighbouring Nottinghamshire . |
| 17 | During the early 1980s , expenditure on the grands projets in Paris was so large that from 1980 to 1983 less than one-fifth of central government funds was going to the provinces . |
| 18 | Well now in nineteen twenty six we had the general strike , and the conditions in Ipswich were so violent that our Borough Police we could n't cope with them , and our Chief Constable , he had to apply to the Home Office and he got permission to have men from East Suffolk and West Suffolk Police , Cambridge County Police , Huntingdon Police sent some , and they were billeted in hotels in the town centre . |
| 19 | LEVELS OF radioactive dust found in a home near the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in Cumbria were so high that the owners felt they had to move their two young sons to safety immediately , the High Court was told yesterday . |
| 20 | The priests in Jerusalem were so numerous that they had to take turns in performing Temple ceremonies . |
| 21 | MORALE in Britain is so low that nearly half the population would emigrate if they could , according to a survey . |
| 22 | The children 's charity , Barnardos , says that poverty in Britain is so bad that parents are going hungry so that the children can eat . |
| 23 | The opportunities for road racing in Britain are so frequent that you can be constantly in danger of taking on too many . |
| 24 | The market for engines in Cornwall was so important that eventually Boulton & Watt employed a very able engineer called William Murdock who was permanently based in Cornwall supervising the erection of their engines . |
| 25 | Even President-elect Bill Clinton could not contain his dismay last week after IBM Corp announced that business in Europe was so bad that the company would at best break even in the current quarter — and prescribed only more of the same medicine that has so signally failed to save the situation up to now . |
| 26 | The movement in Preston was so successful that in 1911 the school organised a jamboree for the Scouts and Guides of the district , and a total of 420 Scouts and Guides from all parts of Preston and district took part . |
| 27 | He glanced across at her : she had stopped playing and was watching them , and the resemblance of her to Martha was so strong that all the old bitterness and resentment flooded suddenly back . |
| 28 | The editor and others working on Uhuru were well aware that their audience was mainly urban , and they wrote accordingly . |
| 29 | You did n't count on Dick being so conscientious that he would n't let Martin watch alone . ’ |
| 30 | Staff and prisoners at Maidstone were acutely aware that , in a training prison , they were relatively well off compared to the overcrowded local prisons , whose barren regimes often mean prisoners being locked in their cells twenty-three hours each day . |