Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] that [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his State of the Union address , delivered to the US Congress on Jan. 31 , President George Bush stated that " the events of the year just ended , the revolution of 1989 , have been a chain reaction — change so striking that it marks the beginning of a new era in the world 's affairs " . |
| 2 | She also sought , of course , the more usual and natural means of escape and fantasy , such as the watching of advertisements , the reading of fiction , and the spinning of self-indulgent romances , but her experience of life as a child was so narrow that she had no way of telling the possible from the absurd . |
| 3 | Within the citadel there was constant bickering between abbot , Viscount and towns-people — grown so rich that they obeyed no one , remarked Geoffrey of Vigeois ruefully — and yet also a sense of being bound together in opposition to their neighbour , the bishop 's city . |
| 4 | It was so strong that she put a hand to her head and swayed . |
| 5 | Maybe hatred could grow so strong that it became a force of its own , he thought — a real physical force . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ? ’ |
| 8 | No Christology can be so low that it overcomes the feminist difficulty by saying of Jesus that he was no different from every other human who has lived . |
| 9 | Poseidon was so grateful that he created a constellation in the dolphins ' honour called Delphinus , just west of Pegasus . |
| 10 | In some cases that might be true ; modern international show jumping course are so big and so technical that they demand a horse with the size , scope and power to make the heights and spreads . |
| 11 | Jim was so upset that he sold the burgundy car — and transferred the number plate to the Rolls . |
| 12 | Britain 's problems were now so acute that they posed a threat to American interests and the free world 's financial system . |
| 13 | When they overtook me , they gave a cheer so loud that they drowned the noises of the wheelbarrow and lorry . |
| 14 | However , William Matteuzzi 's Almaviva is so weak that it requires a considerable stretch of the imagination to picture her preferring the young Count to the lecherous old Dr Bartolo ; and although the late Giuseppe Patane conducts the score with obvious affection , he has little flare for dramatic pacing . |
| 15 | With luck , their homes would not be burgled and any disputes that might subsequently arise over their property would be swiftly resolved on production of those impressive-looking deeds , some of them so old that they bore the colophon of the Sublime Porte . |
| 16 | An instance is provided by the civil war between Pompey and Caesar in the first century BC , when hoarding was so prevalent that it caused a crisis of liquidity . |
| 17 | I want to be so unpleasant that he gets no pleasure from having me . |
| 18 | The insurance company had claimed that the system for calculating punitive awards — to punish wrongdoers and deter future misconduct — was so irrational that it violated the company 's constitutional right to be treated fairly . |
| 19 | A hard , dry , rasping cough , exhausting ; so painful that they suppress the cough . |
| 20 | Susan , still in bed , had no idea that she had gone to fetch a doctor , but her arm was so painful that she raised no objections . |
| 21 | Now , with the stilling of the engines , the sudden silence was so absolute that he saw the three motionless figures as if they were a tableau of dummies in a silent world . |
| 22 | This apparently was so serious that I had a sudden joyous hallucination . |
| 23 | In some ways , however , these disputes have been contained because certain scholars have written books on the constitution that have endured to be widely regarded as so authoritative that they define the parameters of acceptable constitutional debate and almost the very constitution itself . |
| 24 | They had a report in nineteen seventy six called Nestle in developing countries where they said , The volume of our purchases of cocoa and coffee is so vast that it influences the market of those commodities . |
| 25 | It must not be so different that unity is destroyed , or so similar that it gives no feeling of change . |
| 26 | And it was so appalling that it had a genuine effect on public opinion . |
| 27 | The tiger that was nearest to him , and which he could see most easily , seemed so bored that he did the same thing day after day , hour after hour . |
| 28 | A converted physicist not afraid of over-simplification , Valentino Braitenberg , has proposed a scheme so simple that it needs no diagram . |
| 29 | On the night , the young soprano was so nervous that he made a fatal mistake : he forgot to put on any underwear . |
| 30 | The shop was so dark that they let the light burn all day . |