Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] that [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm dead upset that I have n't had any pornographic mail . |
| 2 | ‘ I ca n't help saying it strikes me as rather odd that you 've left it till now to start looking for her . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I am most upset that you have been treated so badly by my countrymen , ’ Gennaro said in a quiet steady voice . |
| 4 | It may have become so normal that you do n't but I think |
| 5 | The American legal system is so odd that I 've been told I could get Tristram deported in my custody . |
| 6 | The resulting chaos was so memorable that I 've never dared take a holiday during a conference again ! |
| 7 | where branches are silouetted against the colours of the sunset they must be rich and strong enough to help intensify the sense of the light coming through then , but not so rich that they seem to close , or start to compete with the same thing happening in the ripples that form their reflection . |
| 8 | These colours are so strong that you have to thin quite a bit to gain softer tones . |
| 9 | You 've always been so strong that you do n't know what it 's been like for me since mother died . ’ |
| 10 | Other people are hoping that the standards that can be set for the 7 , 11 and 14 tests must necessarily be so low that they need hardly be attended to . |
| 11 | My own opinion is that the salaries of judges are so low that they do not attract the best brains . |
| 12 | For many older people , income is so low that they have to claim additional means-tested benefits such as income support , housing benefit and community charge ( poll tax ) benefit . |
| 13 | Glamorgan is way up on Devil 's Peak , and the sight of misty blue clouds hovering over its rocky peaks , so low that you feel that you could touch them , is so awe-inspiring that one feels all it needs is God 's voice thundering from the sky to make you fall flat on your face and worship . |
| 14 | In some cases that might be true ; modern international show jumping course are so big and so technical that they demand a horse with the size , scope and power to make the heights and spreads . |
| 15 | Liz has always taken a great deal of interest in make-up and admits to being ‘ so vain that I wear Revlon 's Aqualash waterproof mascara when diving ’ . |
| 16 | when I speak about it I get so upset that they 've got three or four and they ca n't ! |
| 17 | It 's so woolly that you do n't even really know what this problem is . |
| 18 | Tod and I are feeling so terrific that we 've joined a club and taken up tennis . |
| 19 | There are paints which are so liquid that they resemble inks , paints of a more creamy consistency and also free-flowing acrylics in tubes . |
| 20 | Their body-beings are so strong , so formed , so resilient that you feel that everything , anything would just bounce off the surfaces of them and away . |
| 21 | But cyclists have no alternative but the A2 , a road so awful that I have heard of tourists giving up at Canterbury , fearing that the rest of Britain is just as bad ( which on trunk routes , it is ! ) . |
| 22 | No one would travel in that manner who could help it — who had time to go leisurely over hills and between hedges , instead of through tunnels and between banks ; at least those who would , have no sense of beauty so acute that we need to consult it at the station . |
| 23 | A number from the famous Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale of western Canada are so strange that they have even been claimed as the representatives of ‘ extinct phyla ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ She 's so little that we re-make everything to her size . |
| 25 | But the impediments are often so subtle that they fall foul of no law . |
| 26 | I 've heard of women so depressed that they spend their 40th birthday incommunicado , having a mini nervous breakdown in bed . |
| 27 | But it , is n't it an awful situation when you , when you , when you look at it that evidence indicates that the erm the number of people that are either now elderly infirm or sick and and clearly that they all will have to face this , this , this terrible burden and I can not understand because there is , this , there is , there is er a total disarray within the Conservative party , that all their er er back bench er MP s are making representations to their erm their leader who possibly may not be a leader tomorrow but as long as he 's the leader today , John Major that he should do a rethink and here they are er you know , members of the same party , continuing to support something which is so idiosyncratic that you know it 's really beyond belief , er Chairman . |
| 28 | I fully appreciate and feel the force of the narrowness of the distinctions which are taken between what is admissible and what is not admissible , but the exception presently proposed is so extensive that I do not feel able to support it in the present state of our knowledge of its practical results in this jurisdiction . |
| 29 | With luck , their homes would not be burgled and any disputes that might subsequently arise over their property would be swiftly resolved on production of those impressive-looking deeds , some of them so old that they bore the colophon of the Sublime Porte . |
| 30 | I would like to be away from here , I am not too old for new surroundings , not so old that I feel dread and insecurity in the prospect of a change . |