Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] that [pron] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Particularly if you had just had a row with your wife , and rather suspected that you were in the wrong . |
| 2 | This was only a small-scale study but the results are so striking that it is worth speculating on some of the possible causes of gender bias in the classroom . |
| 3 | The success of the tour made it less difficult to tell herself that this was what she wanted , but it did n't stop those sudden down-swings when she was swept by a longing so total that it was like a haemorrhage of the soul . |
| 4 | It seems entirely possible that it is to this period — roughly from 873/1468 ( or perhaps earlier ) to 878/1473–4 — that the Muftilik of Abdulkerim belongs , that he succeeded Fahreddin Acemi on the latter 's death and must then later have resigned or been removed from the Muftilik , perhaps to make way for Molla Husrev when he returned from Bursa . |
| 5 | Now , watching his grinning monkey face as he swung , arm over arm , the frantic twisting of his body , the silver of the delicate ribcage under the pale flesh where the jacket had parted from his jeans , she felt a surge of love so painful that it was like a thrust to the heart . |
| 6 | Lord Denning said that it had to be so serious that it was of the first importance that offenders be brought to justice . |
| 7 | The floor was so uneven that it was like running through the Crazy Cottage in a funfair ; the building itself seemed to pitch around him like a listing boat . |
| 8 | But the hard labour for criminals which replaced judicial execution was so appalling that it was in effect a living death . |
| 9 | Apparently convinced that I was behind the ABC and NBC stories and the media follow-up around the world , they blew my cover in a television broadcast that also went out around the world . |
| 10 | Indeed , these have become so tiny that they are of little practical use when flying . |
| 11 | If one accepts the story of Molla Yegan 's bringing Molla Gurani to the Ottoman court-and there seems no reason not to-then on the basis of what appears to be the fairly firm evidence for this part of Molla Gurani 's career , Molla Yegan 's return from his journey can not be dated earlier than 845/1441–2 ; and on the reasonable assumption that the purpose of Molla Yegan 's journey was to make the pilgrimage , it seems entirely likely that it was in the year 844/1440–1 , the same year that Molla Gurani made his abortive pilgrimage , that Molla Yegan also performed the hajj and that the two met somewhere after that pilgrimage , though clear information about the actual time and place of their meeting is entirely lacking . |
| 12 | Anthony , recognizing incompetence , grasped Dalgliesh 's hair firmly with a sticky hand and he felt the momentary touch of a cheek , so soft that it was like the fall of a petal . |
| 13 | This amazing £250,000 Japanese import is apparently so sophisticated that it is beyond its capability to frank more than one all-purpose hybrid place of origin on its postmark , viz ‘ Cumbria ’ occupying the whole upper half of the disc , with ‘ Dumfries & Galloway ’ ( nearly three times the length ) squeezed into the lower half . |
| 14 | To people who do eat pork , the Sulawesi warty pig is so good that it was worth domesticating , and it is the only pig besides the Eurasian wild boar to have become part of the human farmyard . |
| 15 | Erm I think possibly just the trees themselves are we you know , th okay they 're olive trees , so they 're a little bit unusual , we do n't get too many olive trees growing in this country , but I 'm not so sure that they 're as er that attractive to make a , a photograph solely out of the olive trees . |
| 16 | The rest were a maze of villages with names that sounded like the refrain for a pantomime song , villages whose lives were as far removed from those Manchester lives he had known for so long that it was as if they inhabited another planet . |
| 17 | Hollywood vs America is a thought-provoking polemic , but Medved 's use of material is so selective that he 's in danger of undermining his own credibility . |
| 18 | You see he 's so unlucky that his is on all play . |
| 19 | For the extreme relativist , the distinction between science and non-science becomes much more arbitrary and less important that it is for the rationalist . |
| 20 | There is no certainty as to which church and manor house the account in the Office refers to , but it is highly probable that they were at Pickering . |
| 21 | That 's why I 'm so thankful that I 'm on the reading and that I like sewing , I like walking and I 've made some very nice friends within easy walking distance , I can go out and have a coffee with them , because I , while I 'm recovering from the agony 's of from the finance |
| 22 | Prince Charles had intended to wait for Cumberland to attack , but after his troops had endured this merciless fire for 20 minutes or more one commander warned Lord George Murray that his men ‘ were turned so impatient that they were like to break their ranks ’ and the pretender agreed to an immediate attack . |
| 23 | He was so thick that I was in the same form as Dan . |
| 24 | The turning point may come when the US supreme court decides that genetic injustice is so immense that it is within the law to show an employer or the insurance falsified genetic identity . |
| 25 | Accidents due to swinging on take-off and landing are so common that it is worth studying the causes in detail . |
| 26 | ‘ If you 're being checked out by someone the fact that they can compare you with a photo is so satisfying that you 're on your way before you know it . ’ |
| 27 | He was obviously satisfied that I was on the level and reserved two birds on the spot , £35 each . |
| 28 | His heart sank , perversely convinced that he was to be transferred to some damp hole where he would be able neither to stand upright nor lie at full length , and chained there in darkness . |
| 29 | She seems to have been wholly unaware that she was in fact queen of a kingdom with a justifiably high opinion of itself — so much so that it is actually supremely ironic that Mary , brought up in one of the greatest of European countries , should have found this one , smaller , but passionately European , so much less interesting and appealing than the kingdom of England , not only Scotland 's traditional enemy , but already beginning the descent into the isolation which it was to maintain for much of the seventeenth century . |
| 30 | Not with a thing like a outputs of aspirin , I mean everyone in Boots knows what the outputs of aspirin are just strange that they are in fact three times what we 'd thought they were and we 've course there 's Crooks , course there 's this , course there 's that tremendous discernment , tremendous understanding but if you have n't got that tremendous understanding , you 've just joined the company , you think you know something and you do n't because not what they think they are |