Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] that [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The car was so badly crushed that I thought about asking the boss if he wanted it posting back . ’ |
| 2 | He was fascinated by horses — so fascinated that he came to be called ‘ The Man who Loved to Draw Horses , ’ although he could and did draw a wide range of other domestic animals . |
| 3 | Kate felt inordinately pleased at his offer , even though she was astute enough to know that it came from a desire for any company , rather than hers specifically . |
| 4 | She did n't know very much about romance , to be sure , just enough to know that it seemed to be a force that did not like to be tamed and squeezed into the orderly compartments of people 's lives . |
| 5 | Some have been toppled , and some are so eroded that they appear to be nothing more than wind-scoured boulders . |
| 6 | Spring 1992 and the Spitfire was wheeled out of the hangar and engine runs commenced , only to find that there appeared to be oil pressure problems until finally the engine would not start at all , in fact the Merlin was locked solid . |
| 7 | The number of matrices B which diagonalise A in this manner is indefinitely large : to prove the theorem we need only show that it holds for any two . |
| 8 | When one begins to take passages of Scripture and to ask how those can be so presented that they speak with equal force and with the same intended meaning as when they were originally communicated , all kinds of possibilities emerge . |
| 9 | I can only assume that it stemmed from wishful thinking or a misunderstanding on the part of one of the council employees or officers . |
| 10 | And it just so happens that I mentioned to one of my doormen that particular night that I could do with one of those machines to keep a careful check on my blood pressure . |
| 11 | This is a life so transformed that it stands in utter contrast to the life which comes naturally to us as human beings . |
| 12 | It so happened that it fell to the lot of Geoffrey Holton and Chris Protheroe to do the donkey work in the Lusaka accident , but it could have been any of the twenty or so investigators in AIB . |
| 13 | Granted that ‘ Be aware ’ suffices for some choices of ends , it does not necessarily follow that it suffices for all . |
| 14 | Any erm deficiency at the end of the financial year was made up by a rate demand , erm so i the it was n't the same in all municipal undertakings , some of them were allowed to carry forward their balances but Ipswich , whether it was erm , er by law or er a , oh I do n't know what it be , perhaps needed that they got to be , the erm balance of the year had to be balanced at the end of the year , so you had a rate demand and of course that rate demand went on to the next year 's rates . |
| 15 | After that we can only hope that it goes in our favour because we know it wo n't be easy . ’ |
| 16 | But if the entire building is so damaged that it has to be torn down and rebuilt , the landlord collects from his insurer to rebuild . |
| 17 | In fact , these two warts are so enlarged that they look like long swellings behind the animal 's eyes , covered with pores through which the poison seeps . |
| 18 | Boris Mavra , Oxford 's Yugoslavian three , was so exhausted that he had to be lifted out of the boat , though he recovered quickly . |
| 19 | ( I am not arguing that the Americans do not themselves engage in all manner of protectionist devices , but merely note that they do at least have an intrinsic belief in the benefits of Adam Smith 's hidden hand , a view which is not wholly shared on the Continent of Europe . ) |
| 20 | Rumour and gossip will spread and the employer may well find key staff and others so unsettled that they look for and find other jobs . |
| 21 | I am greatly touched that she thinks of me and remembers me even in the state of forgetfulness of human affairs in which she now finds herself . |
| 22 | There had not been time yet to find out exactly how brilliant the child was , but Miss Honey had learned enough to realise that something had to be done about it as soon as possible . |
| 23 | This step does not necessarily mean that everyone affected by the problem must be identified . |
| 24 | The armoured or plated dinosaurs include some species that seem too heavily burdened with protective armour to have been very active , but this does not necessarily mean that they had to be cold-blooded . |
| 25 | This last point does not necessarily mean that you have to be using a page description language but , for the moment at least , it amounts to the same thing . |
| 26 | Heuristic information ( that is , suggestions about how best to search ) is often more easily exploited when the language is enlarged , but that does not necessarily mean that it has to be made more expressive . |
| 27 | There was a trench running down this one , too , its contents so foul that he walked with his feet astride it . |
| 28 | If " Jones is a man " is true , then , of course , it necessarily follows that something falls under the concept man , i.e. " For some x , x is a man " is true also . |
| 29 | Burhaneddin Haydar Herevi may , from his actions , be presumed to have disapproved of Seyh Bedreddin , which is not necessarily to say that he disapproved of Molla Fenari . |
| 30 | To uncouple , the tug drew away and the leg was so balanced that it dropped to earth by gravity : if this leg was , through any reason tight , and it failed to function , the trailer fell to the ground , and so cast its load . |