Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] that they [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Vincent Canby in The New York Times felt that the film was often ‘ not terribly funny , at just those moments when it tries the hardest , and it sometimes wears its social concerns so blatantly that they look like warpaint ’ , but concluded that it ‘ is an important movie by one of our most interesting directors ’ .
2 Before he could get to the specimen , its entrails had decomposed so badly that they had to be thrown away , so it was a gutted specimen that he eventually saw .
3 They like foreigners so much that they dispute with one another as to who shall have and treat a foreigner in his house .
4 One or two stretch the notion of individual guilt so far that they embark on self-mutilation .
5 So do I. To anyone capable of seeing beyond a county bank balance , it has been clear for a number of years that there is too much limited-overs cricket played by the counties and that the present mix of three and four-day Championship games is not only confusing , especially now that they start on different days of the week , but also unnecessarily exhausting for all involved .
6 It was only when Gould declared on 28 February 1837 , that Darwin 's island specimens of the Galapagos mocking bird differed so profoundly that they had to be categorised as three completely distinct species , that the alarm bells began to ring .
7 He uttered a great cry of anger and shame , without words , and then the words came following , so hotly that they burned in his throat :
8 When in 1857 something new began to grow in Nova Scotia Gardens , financed by Angela Burdett-Coutts at the prompting of Dickens , the residents protested so vehemently that they had to be pacified by the architect and restrained by the law .
9 If this happens , Tit for Tat individuals , cooperating with one another in cosy little local enclaves , may prosper so well that they grow from small local clusters into larger local clusters .
10 Ten to one ! ’ he shouted , and waltzed his darling Min and her chair so fast that they crashed against a bollard .
11 fold bandage and if you want , pack it away like that , you bring the end in the centre , there , so and again the ends in to the centre , just so that they meet like this , like this the centre , just so that they meet there , again , start like this , ends just to meet in the centre do n't overlap them too much and again bend into the centre and you 've got a nice little pad , if you ever need a pad for plonking on a wound quickly , there you 've got a pad , or putting against an ear or anything you want it for and you open it up quickly and you 've got a bandage , two of those and you 've got a
12 But she stuck her feet out sideways so that they came against the wall of the hearth .
13 Stars are so far away that they appear to us to be just pinpoints of light .
14 In short , high-technology managers recognize quite explicitly that they depend upon their people and their people 's ‘ local knowledge ’ — their detailed expertise in and familiarity with technology , markets , production realities , and all the myriad details of how to understand what is happening , and how to actually implement any plan ( Baba , 1988 ; Geertz , 1983 ) .
15 The charges against that company are serious , although the hon. Lady made it clear that there is no suggestion in any of the supporting paperwork that the claims relate to any sales outside Canada and certainly not that they relate to any sales in this country .
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