Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [adv] [vb pp] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain ended the war with 475,000 houses either destroyed , or so badly damaged that they were made permanently uninhabitable . |
| 2 | The vast majority of British novelists has dropped the baton , stood still , turned back , or not even realised that there is a race . |
| 3 | In the Mediterranean coral was so abundant and so easily harvested that it never became valuable , at least in the home territory . |
| 4 | What evidence is there to show that the system of law and democracy in the European Community is so well established and so widely accepted that it should supersede the means by which we have governed ourselves peacefully through several centuries of war and revolution on the Continent ? |
| 5 | He was sitting facing the Assistant Commissioner ( Crime ) , across a desk so neat and orderly and so well polished that you knew no serious work could be done at it . |
| 6 | Speech processing is so complex and so little understood that we want as few assumptions built into the development architecture as possible . |
| 7 | His nostrils were cavernous and so finely edged that they seemed made of paper . |
| 8 | Chomsky has claimed that the principles underlying the structure of language are so specific and so highly articulated that they must be regarded as being biologically determined ; that is , as constituting part of what we call " human nature " and as being genetically transmitted from parents to children . |
| 9 | The story of biblical criticism has been so well documented and so often told that I will not recount it . |
| 10 | The Prussian government passed legislation designed to Germanise landholdings in the border districts , but these laws were so badly framed and so crudely implemented that they had exactly the reverse effect from that intended . |
| 11 | The poster at the end of the tunnel was so large and so perfectly lit that it seemed to O , looking up at it suddenly , that the tunnel did not end in a wall , in fact did not end at all , but led to the green fields of France . |
| 12 | Then he stood awkwardly beside the box , feeling utterly miserable , not knowing what to do next and so deeply humiliated that his face began to twitch . |
| 13 | Said ‘ tell me more ’ , then revealed himself as the reviewer of the DOE proposal and only later suggested that we collaborate … |
| 14 | Despite the fact that the Whitney Museum was the first to show the photographs of the notorious late Robert Mapplethorpe , and only recently declared that it was creating a department of photography , the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation announced last month that it was the Guggenheim it would be patronising with gifts in money and kind . |
| 15 | Amiss had a fruitless stab at trying to imagine Joan , Kate or Mary tumbling with Ramsbum and then wisely concluded that it was time to go to bed . |
| 16 | Zakir thanked me and then quietly revealed that he had been watching me for several days . |
| 17 | One was still alive , but so badly injured that it hads to be destroyed . |
| 18 | They were grand princesses dancing superbly throughout , but never once suggested that they grew from girl to woman by any change of expression or ways of dancing . |