Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [adv] [vb pp] [that] they " 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 | His nostrils were cavernous and so finely edged that they seemed made of paper . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |