Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [adv] [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Genette 's discussion of Proust is so far reaching that his book can be regarded as much as a reading of A la recherche as a contribution to narrative theory , and to this extent it represents a challenge to the generic distinctions normally made in structuralist thinking between poetics and criticism . |
| 2 | Jack 's opportunity to break into the limelight came when Fred Dawes was so badly injured that he could not play again : Jack 's debut was as demanding as any Palace debut could be — at Millwall ! |
| 3 | Next day in a further raid on this airfield another Beaufighter was to be slightly damaged , as was a Maryland , while a Wellington and a Blenheim were so badly hit that they had to be written off . |
| 4 | The English love affair with Tuscany is so well known that in the last century hotel porters in Siena called all foreigners English , even if they were German or Russian . |
| 5 | Polo parks ( one was constructed recently at Châteaux Giscours ) , marble bottling halls ( Michel Delon 's at Léoville-Lascases is so highly polished that workers have been issued with special boots ) , Versailles-style formal gardens with sunken cellars provide the spectacular icing on the cake of wealth accumulated by the leading châteaux over the last decade by the simple expedient of charging much more for their wines than it costs to make them . |
| 6 | Mr Franklin was yesterday again arguing that his valuation is fair . |
| 7 | Philip was so tightly wedged that when he was pulled out he left his pyjamas behind and emerged stark naked , although not seriously harmed . |
| 8 | And MacPhearson wants to argue that Locke is fairly clearly suggesting that there is a property qualification for membership of the people , the people being the sovereign . |
| 9 | For the moment , Mr Rocard is probably just praying that he can hold on to his seat in the Yvelines . |
| 10 | Chris is so emotionally paralysed that he has spent two years wooing Ann , who has been working in New York , through the post . |
| 11 | In the seventeenth century North America was so thinly populated that it was hard to think that a particular piece of land had scarcity value . |
| 12 | The DES was somewhat curtly informed that this was a matter for the LEAs concerned . |