Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] that they [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other apostles , whose faith was so strong that they did not need evidence , are held up to us as worthy of imitation . |
| 2 | Other people are hoping that the standards that can be set for the 7 , 11 and 14 tests must necessarily be so low that they need hardly be attended to . |
| 3 | My own opinion is that the salaries of judges are so low that they do not attract the best brains . |
| 4 | A number from the famous Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale of western Canada are so strange that they have even been claimed as the representatives of ‘ extinct phyla ’ . |
| 5 | Since Freemantle had to walk within a few yards of Leapor 's door whenever she approached Brackley from Hinton , it is perhaps odd that they had not met at least in passing . |
| 6 | Umpires David Shepherd and John Holder chivvied them several times , but although the players might deny it suited them tactically to keep as many of their batting overs in hand for the next day when better weather was promised , it is difficult to dismiss the thought that the level of fines was so derisory that they did not give it a thought . |
| 7 | C I hope they 're so saddened that they threw now they 'll go out and buy it . |
| 8 | The French , on the other hand , are so clear that they do n't make sense either . |
| 9 | The behavioural patterns are so different that they do not mix well . |
| 10 | The Basque troubles are seen by most Spaniards as so tangled that they do not blame the current Socialist government of Felipe Gonzalez for failing to end the strife . |
| 11 | The majority of candidates who fail do so because they have been so nervous that they have not been able to think clearly , far less to perform well . |
| 12 | The inexperienced pilots often try to soar in unusable lift , and they concentrate so hard that they do n't recognise that they are drifting away and are not going to get back to the field . |
| 13 | Although some skins claimed that they were so hard that they did not need to use weapons , and there was no standard personal armament like the cut-throat razors of the teds or the bicycle chains of the grebos , a variety of weapons were used at football matches and other fights . |
| 14 | The distinction is important since the androids are becoming so lifelike that they differ little from humans , being able to be programmed with memories , emotions and empathy so that some androids even think themselves human . |
| 15 | These local clusters may grow so large that they spread out into other areas , areas that had hitherto been dominated , numerically , by individuals playing Always Defect . |
| 16 | Interest had been so great that they had not got around to marketing the idea elsewhere . |
| 17 | For pregnant women , or those who have just had babies , the pressures are sometimes so great that they become mentally disturbed . |
| 18 | The dinner was a gloomy affair — ‘ … my guests ' dejection was so great that they turned away from food and drink ’ — but then came the telegram from the King . |
| 19 | D H S S , because very often , they either ca n't get telephone boxes working , or they 're hanging on so long that they do n't have enough money |
| 20 | No wonder he claims his fans are all threatening to top themselves ; they 're so stupid that they do n't realise jumping off a five-foot-high stage wo n't kill them — IM |
| 21 | They represent an area of the business whose prospects are so poor that they do not justify any further investment . |
| 22 | Mine become so tame that they climb up the inside of the wire mesh when I approach the hutch and are clearly pleased to see me . |
| 23 | They were made bearable only because Rosie and Francisco were so happy that they did n't notice her moods . |
| 24 | The bikers were so angry that they rode off and gave the cash to another children 's hospice at Quidenham , Norfolk . |
| 25 | They were both so angry that they did not immediately see the movement that came from the old female 's shelter in the cage between them . |
| 26 | They treat their women like mules and they fornicate with animals ; indeed in this respect they are so jealous that they go so far as to attach chastity belts to their mares and mules . |
| 27 | FEW PLACES have such a gentle and equable climate that animals living there never need seek shelter ; and few animals are so well-armed that they do not welcome somewhere to hide from their enemies or a safe nursery for their young . |
| 28 | The Americans used to be so arrogant that they refused even to allow the Panamanian flag to fly . |
| 29 | These two combines were strong enough to focus filmmakers ' creative and entrepreneurial energies , but not so dominant that they crushed out other centres of initiative . |
| 30 | Further experiments showed that sloth metabolism was so slow that they defecated only once a week . |