Example sentences of "[noun] [is] [adv] [det] that " in BNC.

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1 The capacity and flexibility of desk-top computers is now such that the optimal sharing of processing , storage and presentation of material between computer and operator may well be quite different from the traditional combination of human memory and material on paper .
2 The law is now such that the courts will restrain a local authority from spending public funds on any purpose not authorised by law .
3 But the degree of sensitivity on this issue is now such that the emigration of a single Serbian individual or family is blown up to a national crisis .
4 But to me the excitement of the job is so much that if something comes along , I do n't think twice .
5 In this kind of office the variety of requests for service is probably such that it would be necessary to provide a set of categories of the main kinds of activities or functions .
6 The state of the microscopist 's art is now such that the choice of instrument to use depends largely on what he wants to see , and in some applications the acoustic microscope may give him the sharpest pictures ever .
7 He says our feeling is very much that that 's the right idea , beacuse it enables the place to be used for quiet enjoyment at a time of the week when most people are free .
8 Yes , Elizabeth Howell of Exploring Parenthood , certainly that is the case , both with parents and with people like teachers or child care workers , who are in locus parentis for many hours of the day , and our sense is very much that if the adults around children can feel supported and confident that they can acknowledge their own fears and anxieties that they will then be better be able to transmit that measured response to the children in their care and it was very interesting last week , I heard from an educational psychologist in the north of England who said that a group of teachers had asked from several schools to come together to think about the resources that they needed to set in place in order to deal with the children 's behaviour , and after the meeting , at which they were able to express their anxieties , they then returned to their various areas and when the psychologist contacted them a couple of days later they said we felt sufficiently supported by knowing that others are struggling with the same issues and that we could acknowledge our concerns about it , that we now feel able to get on with the job of helping the children , and I think that was a very good example of adults finding a way to acknowledge their own anxieties and thereby to increase their effectiveness in dealing with the children that in whose care they have .
9 A substance is necessarily such that all its properties are " essential " properties , in the sense that they all together define its " nature " , and if any of them were missing or were different from what they happen to be , the substance itself would be different .
10 This went some way towards closing the financial gap between Gloucester 's endowment and that of his brother Clarence , but income is probably all that the grant was designed to provide .
11 This went some way towards closing the financial gap between Gloucester 's endowment and that of his brother Clarence , but income is probably all that the grant was designed to provide .
12 The investment in proposals is naturally such that challenges inevitably produce defensive reactions .
13 So the new element of the system is very much that we , the local authority , the social services department , do now have to assess people 's needs before we offer them any sort of care package to address those needs .
14 If the search problem in speech is indeed such that A* starts to behave like breadth-first , then the only way out of the combinatorial explosion produced by breadth-first search is to keep the search tree small .
15 The latter items , of course , like meanings , are subject to identity ; i.e. a non-meaning qua topic of discourse is necessarily such that it must be possible to refer to it on different occasions with the phrase " the same A " , where A is a descriptive expression of some sort .
16 The present position , then , is that institutional autonomy is still such that there are no serious external constraints in the way of students ' right to learn .
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