Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [adj] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scholarship [ Wissenschaft ] , art and philosophy are now growing together inside me so much that in any case I 'll be giving birth to centaurs one day . |
| 2 | Thinking of him again made me so wretched that on my way back into the department I did not even notice the owner of the hand that held open the door for me , until I chanced to notice Dr Jones watching from outside his office . |
| 3 | You must be especially proud today , because she liked you so much that despite all the difficulties of her first marriage , when she met you she decided to try it again . |
| 4 | I think of you so hard that after a while I can almost feel you kissing me . |
| 5 | She was holding herself so stiff that from time to time she trembled . |
| 6 | Then , too , the pleasure he took in Ricky 's well-trained physique left him painfully aware that in swimming trunks he looked ‘ like a matchstick with the wood shaved off ’ . |
| 7 | The context in Mark 3:20–30 makes it abundantly clear that by his cures and exorcisms Jesus is driving out the demons . |
| 8 | Is it perhaps true that for many of the English , poetry has never been anything else but a superior parlour game ? |
| 9 | Is he further aware that since 1979 , 2 million of our fellow citizens have lost their jobs in the manufacturing sector ? |
| 10 | Is he further aware that in a city such as Birmingham , where problems arise over bringing families into the United Kingdom , there is widespread disgust and dismay at the high number of bogus asylum applications ? |
| 11 | In construing the Act without reference to the Parliamentary proceedings , he treats it as decisive that in this case the taxpayers ' children were only occupying surplus accommodation and that it lay in the discretion of the school whether to grant such benefit to the taxpayers . |
| 12 | Per Lord Mackay of Clashfern L.C. I regard it as crucial that on the facts as found the taxpayers ' sons occupied only surplus places and their right to do so was entirely discretionary ( post , p. 1036A–B ) . |
| 13 | Is it really feasible that at the sort of level that 's being talked about , be it your level or the level being put forward by some of the objectors to the structure plan , the new settlement could actually hope to provide a good level of comparison shopping , for example ? |
| 14 | If the reader is tempted to doubt the general validity of such a concrete and specific historical instance , let me remind him that Campanella — an ostensibly Christian author , be it noted — makes it perfectly clear that in his socialist utopia , the City of the Sun , ‘ no one can receive gifts from another . |
| 15 | As far as the County Highways Authority 's concerned , I think they 've made it quite clear that as a matter of principle , when they considered the new settlement , the new settlement proposal was then around nineteen hundred dwellings , larger than what is being proposed at the moment . |
| 16 | Cecil made it quite clear that in his opinion , at least , the " strangers " in charge of the works were pretending to act simply and fairly towards the society but were thought to be dealing more for their own " private lucre " than for the benefit of the society , " … this despite diverse great sums of money due by them for rent having been remitted for their better encouragement to carry on the work … " |
| 17 | Mr Salmond said : ‘ I find it quite incredible that on the day this bungling Government is desperately trying to scramble out of a hole on pit closures , it is at the same time drilling itself into a well on oil jobs . |
| 18 | Gulliver 's Travels went back to telling fantastic tales , but Swift wrote the book in the same realistic style as Defoe , and took it for granted that his readers would find it quite natural that at the ends of the earth men were just the same as in England — petty , trivial , grasping , and generally unpleasant . |
| 19 | We have also made it very clear that upon the signing of a cease fire , but not before , all coalition forces will be drawn back from Iraqi territory that we currently occupy . |
| 20 | I should make it absolutely clear that from 1 January 1993 we shall continue to maintain our frontier controls , particularly on matters of international crime , drugs and immigration . |
| 21 | I make it absolutely clear that in any case of official error , no matter how far back the case goes , payment will be made . |
| 22 | This can surprise us and overwhelm us so much that by far the most appropriate response is to laugh . |