Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [adv] great [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But concern about the operation has been so great that police on the Isle of Man have been flooded with more than 50 calls asking if the operation is above board . |
| 2 | But the outcry from conservationists has been so great that the government has decreed that no more wolves will be shot ( New Scientist , 10 March , p 633 ) . |
| 3 | Economic growth in the open world market economy has been so great that few governments are now in strong enough control over their civil societies to be able to deny them the chance to participate in this wealth-creating system . |
| 4 | John tells me , by the way , that the response to his trolleybus venture has been so great that he now plans to do something along similar lines , as you might say , with the railways . |
| 5 | That is an as yet unfulfilled hope , but the recent pace of experimental progress has been so great that there is every reason for optimism . |
| 6 | These are free and demand has been so great that what was initially planned as a single four-week course has been extended to sessions running until the spring . |
| 7 | I think that the sort of environmental problem to which the hon. Gentleman referred is so great that it is probably best dealt with by multilateral institutions . |
| 8 | And the demand for jam jars had been so great that even salvage dumps and cemeteries had been searched for extra supplies . |
| 9 | Until now its speed had been so great that it had grown into a ravening monster , capable not only of swallowing the Residency , but of gulping down the banqueting hall as well . |
| 10 | She had seen him only once during the past three years — two bleak weeks ago at the funeral , when her grief had been so great that she had barely registered his presence . |
| 11 | Interest had been so great that they had not got around to marketing the idea elsewhere . |
| 12 | THE overwhelming success of the Midland Railway Trust organised excursions to London on November 21 and 28 have been so great that a third train has now been organised for Saturday December 5 . |