Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [adj] that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pace of ideation is for the most part so great that a more formal procedure of idea-handling would be obstructive and pointless . |
| 2 | One must stand in awe of the scientist so Promethean that a single obscenity is all that is needed to clarify and educate . |
| 3 | The latter was applying a social policy on which reasonable men could differ ; it had decided against differential rating and this was not a decision so unreasonable that no reasonable corporation could come to it . |
| 4 | They 're not real ‘ boat ’ necks ( the kind so deep that the back of the neck is actually level with the back of the headstock and heel ) but they 're pretty deep all the same and they both feel just excellent . |
| 5 | When she opened her mouth to yell , a hand caught her face , pinching into the angle of the jaw so hard that the cry died in her throat . |
| 6 | There must be no nice balancing of odds , the judge must come to the conclusion that such danger is real and appreciable with reference to the ordinary operation of law in the ordinary course of things , not a danger of an imaginary and insubstantial character , having reference to some extraordinary and barely possible contingency so improbable that no reasonable man would suffer it to influence his conduct . |
| 7 | Harry clenched his teeth so hard that the stem of his clay pipe broke , and he had to spit the bits into the hearth . |
| 8 | Trading in dammars , incensewood and rattans sometimes yields financial returns so high that the people abandon cultivation in its favour . |
| 9 | I think the cut-out must have no plant form then , it should be earthy or an old withered tree trunk or some such — because the dancers personify Spring so much that the stage should represent the earth . |
| 10 | IT IS of no great consequence to the rest of the world that a small island off the end of the Indian subcontinent should have sunk over the past couple of decades into a condition of violence so endemic that the murder of the president and a leading opposition politician within eight days can be regarded by the locals with something like equanimity ( see page 71 ) . |
| 11 | Treating his pupils to the compliment of rational disagreement sometimes spilled over into a verbal contest so fierce that the young person concerned was abashed or even frightened . |
| 12 | T S Eliot once accused Henry James of possessing a mind so fine that no idea could violate it . |
| 13 | When neighbours who entertained him in Knightsbridge spent a rare weekend at Hatherley they were surprised at the switch from newspaper owner to farmer , a switch so thorough that the paper was not mentioned the whole time they were there . |
| 14 | He clenched the steering wheel so hard that the car wobbled , and he hastily righted it . |
| 15 | All the windows had roller blinds made of a dark-green fabric so tough that the years of neglect had done nothing to decay or even damage them . |
| 16 | His cage was cast in a silvery light so bright that the patterns of the bars could clearly be seen as shadows on its floor . |
| 17 | Instantly they plunged into a vertical nose-dive so abrupt that the bucket flew from her grasp and dropped like a stone . |
| 18 | Hart exhorts us that ‘ we should not cherish even as an ideal a rule so detailed that no new choices arise at the point of application ’ .6 Unger remarks that ‘ language is no longer credited with the fixidity of categories and the transparent representation of the world that would make formalism plausible in legal reasoning or in ideas about justice ’ . |
| 19 | Throttles opened wide , the engines roared as they regained flying speed , the Vimy skimmed the waves so close that the spray beat underneath the wings . |
| 20 | Lorrimer said through lips so stiff that the words sounded cracked : |
| 21 | Applied here the Secretary of State would have to show some reasonable grounds in the above sense , that the local authority was proposing action so unreasonable that no reasonable authority would countenance it . |
| 22 | And there arose a fierce gale of wind and the waves were breaking over the boat so much that the boat was already filling up and he himself was in the stern asleep on the cushion . |
| 23 | I ‘ m particularly concerned that the money was debited directly from the account with no authorisation from the council . |
| 24 | ‘ In the administration of government in this country the functions which are given to ministers ( and constitutionally properly given to ministers because they are constitutionally responsible ) are functions so multifarious that no minister could ever personally attend to them . |
| 25 | Therefore , I believe that we can square the circle and there is no reason to say that , by widening the scope of the Bill 's long title , it would open the issue so much that the Bill 's progress to Report would be unnecessarily delayed . |
| 26 | Some fish boast armour so deadly that the predator dies within minutes of biting the spines . |
| 27 | That means it was for use in climates and countries so benign that the natives require no shelter at all , and where a tent is more or less a decorative affectation . |
| 28 | And everybody there at that table knew that in the case of Shirley Harper 's mother , the phrase ‘ she does n't get out much ’ conveyed the distilled essence of a withdrawal so extreme that the term agoraphobia would hardly do it justice . |
| 29 | Allegations that the expert has made a mistake will succeed only if the mistake is an error so fundamental that no expert is likely to have made it . |
| 30 | The Chinese used their belts so much that the metal buckle came off . |