Example sentences of "[noun pl] are [adv] [adj] that " in BNC.

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1 Belgium is the extreme case of a country whose own institutions are so weak that EC integration seems the only substitute .
2 But conditions in the mines are so appalling that if the Furus were not under the influence of the drug they would undoubtedly refuse outright to go below ground . ’
3 Their debts are so large that they will be allowed to stumble on at least until the market shows signs of real improvement — maybe several years away .
4 The advances in information technologies are now such that in most parts of the world the trend is towards monopolisation of both electronic and print media , and particularly , of the culture industry .
5 Germans are uncomfortably aware that some parts of the Ruhr are just as dirty as anything the Communists left behind in the east .
6 Because the majority of college lecturers are probably afraid that they might lose their students if they abandoned lectures whilst the rest of their colleagues retained them as the primary teaching method .
7 The Russians are so bureaucratic that any gems of intelligence they might cull are lost in a mass of trivial dross .
8 Government policies are so short-term that by the time the recession is over , the country 's industrial base will have been destroyed , and we could end up with a Third World economy .
9 There is also a considerable amount of feedback from implementation which influences further policy making , and many policies are so skeletal that their real impact depends upon the way they are interpreted at the implementation stage .
10 In fact , their necks are so mobile that they can keep their heads in the same position while a branch sways in the breeze underneath them .
11 In some cases , preferences are relatively weak , so that two ordered results are produced ; in others , the preferences are so strong that a second result is not produced .
12 Some cases are so serious that they are transferred by the magistrates to the Crown Court .
13 Admittedly , ethnography presents us with a few ( but very few ) examples of value systems in which inequality of status is viewed as a moral evil ; but these cases are so exceptional that they probably always represent transient states of society .
14 It is probable that homologous cross-veins do not exist in many orders but their positions in some cases are so constant that analogies , if not homologies , can be traced and similar names are applicable .
15 J said : " The cases are quite clear that you can not make a valuer an arbitrator by calling him so or vice versa " .
16 If two tailless Manx cats are mated , the kittens are so deformed that they nearly always die before birth .
17 In another company , one major activity is only related to economic factors to a small extent , while its other activities are so stable that detailed economic information analysis is considered unnecessary .
18 However , those who operate the law are well aware that it will only be respected to the extent that it conforms with public opinion : the reason why journalists and broadcasters are not prosecuted much more often for undoubted infringements of the letter of the laws of contempt and official secrecy is simply that the authorities are well aware that up-to-the-hilt enforcement of these vague laws would bring the law into further disrepute , and precipitate precisely the sort of clash between government and the press that it has been the British genius to avoid , whenever possible , by cosy arrangements .
19 The extent of this digestion makes it difficult even to identify the prey animals , and the teeth are so fragile that any disturbance of these specimens during transport or burial would be likely to destroy them completely .
20 Wales was once known as a fly-half factory , but since Jonathan Davies went North there has been not a single successor of world class selected for the national team and at the moment the signs are not good that one is about to come off the production like .
21 Although the perfume is rapidly diluted by the air , the male 's antennae are so sensitive that he can detect a female from as far as 5 kilometres away .
22 At such a temperature the deuterium and tritium fuels are so hot that they would vaporise every material known , stripping the atoms apart into a ‘ plasma ’ of electrons and nuclei roaming free of one another .
23 However , in the case of the risk premium , the differences between commodity and index futures are sufficiently large that the results for commodity futures are not very informative about index futures .
24 Paleontologists are now certain that vertebrate bone started as a form of armour , and may not have been ‘ designed ’ to enable sea creatures to walk on land .
25 Outside London , cities are so small that only Birmingham , Bristol , Exeter , Newcastle , York and Norwich have more than ten thousand residents .
26 The behavioural patterns are so different that they do not mix well .
27 Nevertheless , practically all the rules have exceptions and readers may feel that the rules are so complex that it would be easier to go back to the idea of learning the stress for each word individually .
28 I 'm not saying Atlanta did anything untoward , but I think the rules are so open that er you could if you wished .
29 In the commission 's view these rules are so flexible that no company need be put off by them .
30 However , crude as the exercise is , some of its products are so gross that its crudity can be ignored .
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