Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] that [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the extreme , some nuclear waste was so intensely radioactive that it had to be kept isolated from the human environment for thousands of years . |
| 2 | Yes , there was something sexual between the two of them now , but any interest he had felt six years ago would have been connected solely with the phenomenon of the awe he had inspired , so overwhelmingly intense that it had reduced her to awkward , agonised silence every time he was around . |
| 3 | I felt helpless and despairing and suddenly so ill that I had to clutch at the door to stop myself falling . |
| 4 | The plane was loaded down so much that it had difficulty in skimming the tops of those large mountains , but I was not troubled , thinking that the pilot was a well-trained American , until after an hour of this mountain hopping a small Chinese face appeared at the cockpit door and said , ‘ Is you all all-lite ? ’ |
| 5 | Oh , yes — the thought of escaping back to Coniston was so utterly desirable that she had a job not to rush off and start packing her case . |
| 6 | In that he has been thoroughly supported by the anthropological evidence , although the nature of these other systems has proved often much more complex that he had imagined . |
| 7 | This was so nearly true that she had the grace to feel slightly ashamed of herself . |
| 8 | He looked so comically apologetic that she had to burst out laughing . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , the Budget was so unbelievably boring that it had the opposite effect . |
| 10 | When he had met Ivy at Crepi 's dinner party her appearance had struck him as so wilfully bizarre that he had written it off as a freak effect , as though all her luggage had been lost and she 'd had to raid the oddments put aside for collection by the missionary brothers . |
| 11 | I was too tired , only vaguely conscious that we had come off the canal bank and were angling down across a steep slope of stony ground to the rice-green flatness of the valley floor . |
| 12 | In terms of Israeli-US relations , the issue was so potentially divisive that it had been largely ignored ; the issue never formally arose during the whole of US President Reagan 's eight years in office . |
| 13 | He was only too conscious that he had nothing really to do : his hands strayed from time to time above his freckled face to adjust his headgear . |
| 14 | I made my way back to Chelsea only too aware that I had no intention of buying a shop in the terrace . |
| 15 | She stifled the inevitable tears of self-pity , only too aware that she had only herself to blame … |
| 16 | Ronni shot her response at him like a reflex action , a little guiltily aware that it had rather less to do with the truth and rather more to do with her sudden need for a shield . |
| 17 | Yet not so rotten that it had obscured the carved initials at the base of the grip . |
| 18 | I pointed out that I did not limp or at least not so much that anyone had previously noticed . |
| 19 | It was not so much that he had anything against people in general , more that he saw no purpose in deliberately setting up occasions on which you stood around trying to think of something to say . |
| 20 | Of course , Matey was not best pleased that she had taken so long to come home — or so McAllister thought when the older woman came towards them after Dr Neil had let them both in . |
| 21 | Martin , of course , was just as adamant that he had kept it out : ‘ I admit that part of the ball was over the line , but that 's not enough . ’ |
| 22 | She had not done this deliberately ; she was not even aware that she had done it . |
| 23 | It was not long before the birds started into subdued and reluctant song as though not yet certain that they had survived the wildness of the night . |
| 24 | Brought down to earth with a bang , I sheepishly confessed , not yet aware that I had found my spiritual home . |
| 25 | I am still rather surprised that I had the good sense for once in my life to follow my hunch and come and see you . |
| 26 | She took little account of time , and was hardly even aware that she had been placed in Lady Merchiston 's old bedchamber . |
| 27 | They were both so pleased that I had come , by accident , to make their day perfect . |
| 28 | Viewed from close up he showed absolutely no sign of being controlled by an extraterrestrial intelligence.The guys from Tellenor were probably so good that they had over-reached themselves and programmed free will into him . |
| 29 | She was also dimly aware that they had passed the point of no return — now she had allowed him inside her it seemed wrong to yell at him to stop or begin fighting him . |
| 30 | The patient was also quite unaware that he had been rubbing his chest just prior to fainting . |