Example sentences of "[prep] be [adv] [adj] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the quantities of lead and nitrates which the EC is making a fuss about are so small that they represent a negligible — perhaps even a non-existent — hazard to health . |
| 2 | Upon opening the Carlton Standard 's case , and after being initially overjoyed that I was n't looking at yet another Strat derivative , I must admit that my aesthetic values were backed into a corner while I tried to work out exactly what I was looking at . |
| 3 | And his self-despite was so strong that he knew reviving an old flame or chasing some young actress would only aggravate it . |
| 4 | On balance they are better off being fully camouflaged at this stage , because although the blue tail may save the life of many a young lizard it also has the disadvantage of being so conspicuous that it can , to some extent , attract unwanted attention in the first place . |
| 5 | The list of issues which the group came up with was so detailed that it was discussed over the following weeks . |
| 6 | He was sure it had been there every night since , and Mrs Masters turned out to be equally confident that it had also been there during the day . |
| 7 | But you would have to be awfully sure that you were destined for the gallows to put to sea in a small boat during a storm . |
| 8 | The mother has to be completely sure that she wants to wean her child from the breast or bottle : her motivation is essential for this to succeed . |
| 9 | twenty , fifteen , whatever years , whatever years , and in that time you 've got to be pretty sure that you can do that |
| 10 | So even if other people pay for it , we will have to be pretty convinced that it will be successful . |
| 11 | If you devote several years of your life to a subject , you ought to be reasonably sure that you 'll enjoy it . |
| 12 | However , in this case , it would not be necessary to determine that all the quanta came from the same direction : it would be enough to observe that they all arrived within a very short time interval to be reasonably confident that they were coming from the same burst . |
| 13 | We do n't know upon what he 's basing what he 's saying , whether it 's on his own particular memories of school , whether it 's been informed by , department of education officials in England , or Scottish education officials up here , and I think any up , any where somebody , something as crucial teachi , any job , er , where somebody who 's uninformed is making pronouncements which are considered to be sufficiently important that they 're read out on th , on the six o'clock news and in the papers |
| 14 | Indeed , it takes quite a wise person to be sufficiently aware that they have a problem to seek professional help . |
| 15 | The incoherence I think is that you ca n't ever say that anyone has lost because you do n't know what 's happening in the second and third and fourth erm batch , so I ca n't see how this system is meant to work , Mill seems to be fairly confident that it will . |
| 16 | This way , it was going to be fairly obvious that someone had emptied a bottle of bleach into the punch but , since Henry could not possibly have a motive for murdering the whole of Maple Drive ( as far as the police were concerned , anyway ) , it would be relatively easy for him to gasp in horror and dismay and to take the Wimbledon CID around the places where he had left the bowl of punch unattended . |
| 17 | Leith could see at once that he did n't seem to be too enamoured that she , by giving in her notice , had just taken away his trump card . |
| 18 | If you need to be absolutely sure that you really do have your money in your hand and not just a piece of paper which may or may not be paid , ask for one or other of the above . |
| 19 | Gradually his attitude changes , partly for the almost absurdly simple reason that the weather changes from uncomfortable cold to pleasant warmth and partly because he is too intelligent to be totally unaware that he is learning , whether he wants to or not . |
| 20 | If the Pharisees and Scribes thought themselves to be so perfect that they were not aware of their own sin then little could be done for them . |
| 21 | He felt himself to be so uneducated that it seemed hopeless even to try to catch up with the ordinary things that people knew . |
| 22 | But there was a purpose and he was reminded of it , a purpose which seemed to Mr Dass to be so petty that he had n't at first been able to take it seriously . |
| 23 | Those changes appear to be so great that they will certainly still be affecting readers of this text in the 1990s . |
| 24 | Studies were put in hand to see whether it would be practicable to deploy Blue Streak in hardened underground silos in the Welsh mountains or the Scottish highlands , but the cost was found to be so great that it would have beggared the Defence Vote , making the restoration of more efficient conventional forces impossible . |
| 25 | Look I do n't want to be so famous that I have to write autographs all over the place , and ca n't travel by bus in case I 'm mobbed . |
| 26 | A distorted lack-of-pulse is unlikely to be so pulse-like that it confuses the equipment . |
| 27 | This is used because Saint Francis was supposed to be so gentle that he could actually speak to the birds . |
| 28 | It took three and a half months and I was just wondering about it the whole time and I thought , ‘ Man , it 's either going to be so good that I 'm never going to want to play another guitar , or it 's going to suck . |
| 29 | Lord Denning said that it had to be so serious that it was of the first importance that offenders be brought to justice . |
| 30 | Many of their propositions seem to critics to be so vague that they are almost tautologous . |