Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] that [pron] of [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alfred was suddenly extremely grateful that none of his colleagues knew of Beatrice Throgmorton 's place in his life . |
| 2 | Yes but the trouble about it is that the English are so insular that lots of them do n't , do n't realize it or wo n't believe it . |
| 3 | But television was so arrogant that none of them even knew that I had a previous reputation . |
| 4 | The students from that time remembered a man with a sharp sense of the ridiculous ; who ragged them but was too shy to be intimate with them though they liked him much for his friendliness and his humour ; who was famous for long , sudden , and embarrassing silences ; who was so eccentric that none of them believed that he could later be a man of distinction in England or his Church ; a man who loved theology — they never met anywhere else a man who so loved theology , and who regarded theology as the highest intellectual activity for humanity ; a fierce defender of liberty of opinion , for Marxists as for anyone else ; whose principal theme was the glory of God , and who was evidently touched by his ideas of Plato ; who did not give the impression of a mind of exceptional ability — there was not enough knife in the mind — but who gave the impression of being an exceptional person ; who disturbed other people 's prayers in chapel with convulsive fidgets and sudden face-rubbings — they regarded him as tense in his devotions and were afraid of a nervous breakdown ; who had a manifest and rare mystical sense of the immediate presence of God , a presence so brilliant that it could almost overpower . |
| 5 | The editor , a nervous man always conscious that none of his immediate predecessors had lasted more than two years in the job , held his readers ' adoration of royalty as an article of faith . |
| 6 | In fact , she could only be profoundly grateful that none of her business colleagues or any of her smart friends back in London was able to see her looking so awful . |
| 7 | It is particularly significant that none of his many critical comments on the book from that period suggest any mixed feelings at the time when the book was actually being planned and written . |
| 8 | Almost a quarter ( 22 per cent of those aged 65 — 74 and 23 per cent aged 75 + ) consider that it is very likely that someone of their age will develop a serious illness over the next ten years . |