Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [adj] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is based on a true story so outrageous that it would never in a million years have passed muster as fiction . |
| 2 | Well if it was me to keep it balanced I usually put the bigger ones near the bottom or on one side so that the small bit are at the top and the big bits are at the bottom and artistically it looks a bit better balanced but it does n't really matter for the maths where you put it . |
| 3 | Beyond the rail , reached by a stairway so steep that it was almost a ladder , was the main lower level . |
| 4 | We looked in the area of the fault and indeed , there was one needle that had a latch so stiff that it could n't open freely and also got stuck when you pushed it right back . |
| 5 | This is a clear example of the third basic kind of doubt , a kind so common that it qualifies as the twentieth-century doubt par excellence . |
| 6 | The Health and Safety at Work Act has made us rather more concerned about smells and bangs and the dangers these cause , so perhaps life is a little bit less smelly than it was , perhaps a little less exciting , but it ought to be a little longer too . |
| 7 | But that had been seven months ago , a chill morning in mid-February , when the bushes which screened the canal walk from the neighbouring council estate had been tangled thickets of lifeless thorn ; when the branches of the ash trees had been black with buds so tight that it seemed impossible they could ever crack into greenness ; and the thin denuded wands of willow , drooping over the canal , had cut delicate feathers on the quickening stream . |
| 8 | There was even a small river tumbling over the edge in a waterfall so wind-whipped that it reached the ground as rain . |
| 9 | However , there has been considerable controversy over the meaning of the link between events and depression — whether in fact the existence of a psychosocial stressor makes a depressive response so understandable that it should not be considered a disease . |
| 10 | They had dropped in to pick up Bill , who was of necessity going without Faye this year , and the sight of Tom in a black dinner suit and a shirt so white that it was almost ultra-violet had rocked Belinda 's usual state of equilibrium where their friendship was concerned . |
| 11 | In its light was revealed a thin face , with skin so pale that it was almost translucent , whose high cheekbones emphasised the hollows below and under her brows . |
| 12 | The recession , which had proved deeper and longer than predicted , made Bush 's own re-election less certain than it seemed at mid-year . |
| 13 | It was a sa so big that it was almost a lake . |
| 14 | Thus the lower-frequency stretching mode of HCN , mainly associated with CN stretching , gives rise to IR absorption so weak that it can not effectively be observed by conventional means . |
| 15 | It was a smell so keen that it momentarily brought back the holiday she and Martin had spent in Amalfi , the trudge hand-in-hand up the winding road to the mountain-top , the pile of lemons and oranges by the roadside , putting their noses to those golden , pitted skins , the laughter and the happiness . |
| 16 | He already knew , from collision with it , that the very next zone was of a frigidity so intense that it too would burn like fire . |
| 17 | It wore a personal mushroom cloud which fired sheet-lightning directly down into its crater , with thunder so head-shattering that it was hard to convince the body it had nothing to worry about . |
| 18 | In schools , the development of European awareness will have to be built into the curriculum much more than it has been so far . |
| 19 | It was a state of existence so perfect that it almost frightened her because nothing Perfect lasted for ever . |
| 20 | It was of course so important that it was recorded by the gospel writers no less than five times . |
| 21 | One jerk , one shudder , one small loss of control and it would spill over into a chaos so terrible that it could only end in death . |
| 22 | His sons were there and so was a concourse of knights so huge that it reminded men of his Coronation . |
| 23 | She spoke with an accent so soft that it sounded as if an h was attached to each consonant . |
| 24 | The students from that time remembered a man with a sharp sense of the ridiculous ; who ragged them but was too shy to be intimate with them though they liked him much for his friendliness and his humour ; who was famous for long , sudden , and embarrassing silences ; who was so eccentric that none of them believed that he could later be a man of distinction in England or his Church ; a man who loved theology — they never met anywhere else a man who so loved theology , and who regarded theology as the highest intellectual activity for humanity ; a fierce defender of liberty of opinion , for Marxists as for anyone else ; whose principal theme was the glory of God , and who was evidently touched by his ideas of Plato ; who did not give the impression of a mind of exceptional ability — there was not enough knife in the mind — but who gave the impression of being an exceptional person ; who disturbed other people 's prayers in chapel with convulsive fidgets and sudden face-rubbings — they regarded him as tense in his devotions and were afraid of a nervous breakdown ; who had a manifest and rare mystical sense of the immediate presence of God , a presence so brilliant that it could almost overpower . |
| 25 | But Miriam had noticed the slight intake of breath ; she had been perfectly aware that Louise might be shocked by her words but she had spoken them anyway , partly because she felt too weary not to say what she meant , partly because , though she liked Louise , she sometimes found her sweetness and prudish innocence rather cloying and it gratified her to offend them . |
| 26 | In the naked fear of falling in a space so huge that she did not know whether she was falling up or down , inward or outward , she met a fear so great that it burned away forever all the other fears . |
| 27 | Only it holds onto the hairs so much that it rips them out so that you end up with legs with no hairs on it but ah ! |
| 28 | It was a backwards memory of an event in his future so terrifying that it had generated harmonics of fear all the way along his lifeline ) . |
| 29 | At two-twenty Minto 's party appeared , saying that the reason for their delay was that Liddiat , the handyman employed by Minto at The Kilns , had pumped up the tyres of the car so hard that it was impossible to drive at more than fifteen miles per hour . |
| 30 | ‘ Is her fault so bad that it can not be overlooked ? ’ he asked . |