Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb pp] that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children have since constantly complained that the twins should not be walking in the middle of the road . |
| 2 | Both the military and civilian sector in the RSA have long since discovered that the only replacement for a Dakota is another Dakota ! |
| 3 | The Navaho had long since learned that the best way to live was to stick to the land no white man would want to take from him . |
| 4 | The point is to resurrect the lives of women obscured by their more famous male spouses or contemporaries ; but too often these have been so effectively overshadowed that the biographies are pious constructions rather than recon structions . |
| 5 | As you might expect from such headlong cross-breeding and hybridizing in the incessant search for something different and new , the various types are so widely stretched that the edges tend to run into each other and merge , and the dividing line becomes ever more difficult to discern . |
| 6 | ‘ The breakfast was so badly cooked that the girls could n't possibly eat it , so they were hungry . ’ |
| 7 | That is happening simply because the prison service has been so badly mismanaged that the staff are disaffected . |
| 8 | She was so badly tortured that the authorities had to send her to hospital . |
| 9 | But these have been so badly eroded that the controlling guards of critical thought are down . |
| 10 | Twenty minutes later she found herself inside the Head 's office , white and trembling , so obviously terrified that the Head herself was taken aback . |
| 11 | The fact that the price fell so steeply indicated that the gamble on the harvest had paid off , but due to delays and maladministration peasants were still starving , as we have seen . |
| 12 | The Kufra agenda had fifteen items : discussion of the first two was leisurely , so generously chaired that the assembly had to discuss the rest hurriedly in the last two evenings . |
| 13 | She appeared taken aback , as if she had only just realised that the pair of them were not alone . |
| 14 | Under capitalism the market and the desire to accumulate wealth appear to be a sufficient basis for social interaction and for regulating communal life ; things and impersonal economic mechanisms have replaced people 's commitment to each other while ‘ the ancient conception in which man always appears ( in however narrowly national , religious or political a definition ) as the aim of production , seems very much more exalted that the modern world in which production is the aim of man and wealth the aim of production ’ [ p. 84 ] . |
| 15 | ( One campus I knew of in a large industrial city used to be so strictly guarded that the students referred to it as the town 's ‘ second prison ’ . ) |
| 16 | We have so far assumed that the micro-instructions are held in a read-only control store , although we have considered the possibility of interchangeable plug-in control stores . |
| 17 | If the change is not well managed throughout this process , different groups ' interests may be so radically affected that the process has to degenerate into chaos before stability can be regained . |
| 18 | Certainly general policies , such as those reproduced in part below , could have the effect not only of preventing but abating existing odour nuisance , the county council having recognised that in most cases where odour pollution causes problems , the source of the odour is either close to residential property or industry is so densely concentrated that the total odour emission is unacceptable . |
| 19 | ‘ Put into the language of today , the general principle being there stated is simply that , unless the contrary is expressly enacted or so plainly implied that the courts must give effect to it , United Kingdom legislation is applicable only to British subjects or to foreigners who by coming to the United Kingdom , whether for a short or a long time , have made themselves subject to British jurisdiction . |
| 20 | ‘ British insects have been so well recorded that the discovery of new species is the icing on the cake of the study , ’ said Dr Holmes . |
| 21 | It was almost as if she was surrounded by a choir , with each person allocated one word , but so well rehearsed that the sentences flowed seamlessly along . |
| 22 | Although the rail journey involves a change of trains , the timetable of services is so well co-ordinated that the change is no great inconvenience . |
| 23 | The description of feelings and emotions are so well portrayed that the reader is able to feel with the character at every twist and turn of their lives . |
| 24 | It would seem to be patently unfair to dismiss a driver with a perfect record prior to a momentary lapse which results in a court imposing a penalty , simply because the works ' rules are so rigidly drawn that the employer is deprived of exercising a discretion . |
| 25 | Until then the English had been sailing to places so far from effective Spanish opposition and so thinly populated that the government had not had to provide any help . |
| 26 | The central character is so consistently developed that the audience take it for granted the house will fall down only a few weeks after he has started [ sic ] to live in it . ’ |
| 27 | Foods that do not sustain microbial growth , such as bread , or raw produce which is so heavily contaminated that the bacterial loading on a surface is insignificant , are not likely to require handling on disinfected surfaces . |
| 28 | Beatty 's aim was to keep Hipper so closely engaged that the Germans could not break off the action until Jellicoe arrived ; Hipper 's task was to lure Beatty to destruction at the hands of Scheer . |
| 29 | Interpreting the music well takes hours of listening to discover its subtleties of phrasing , rhythm and mood ; then more time should be spent on experimentation until the music and movement are so closely connected that the movement does n't work without its music . |
| 30 | Implementation of the plan and evaluation are so closely intertwined that the four-section cycle is redrawn to highlight the regular to-and-fro between the first ( ‘ sustain commitment ’ ) and the second ( ‘ check progress ’ ) which leads to ‘ overcome problems ’ and then ‘ check successes ’ . |