Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] that you could " in BNC.
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| 1 | So high that you could see everything . |
| 2 | ‘ So gummy that you could throw it against a wall and it would stick , ’ It was known as ska , blue beat or rocksteady , and collectively as reggae . |
| 3 | And all the little blobs that had looked like cotton wool became , as he touched them , bunches of cherry blossom , tinged with pink , so real that you could almost smell them , almost imagine yourself out of this noisy workshop and waling between trees at dawn . |
| 4 | ‘ At nights , ’ said the Canadian , ‘ it was so cold that you could n't sleep at all , and about dawn you 'd hear the shots as they knocked off that day 's quota of Frenchmen out in the yard . ’ |
| 5 | What was so dreadful that you could n't tell me ? |
| 6 | It is lurid , and ingenious and 100 pages too long , but so perverse that you could get to love it . |
| 7 | Often at this time of day , when he felt the day 's journey should be ending or reaching a destination , but knowing that it was not , knowing that what he was looking for probably happened after everybody else had gone home , he wished that he could end his days walking at the edge of a sea or a lake so big that you could n't see its other shore . |
| 8 | It is well-known that the Blitz started with the burning of the London docks , and that this created a blaze so fierce that you could almost read a newspaper at night eight miles away . |
| 9 | When she sings something like ‘ Nothing Left At All ’ you can almost feel the sky closing in tight above you , getting so close that you could reach up with a broomstick and touch it . |
| 10 | And there was also a strange sound , so quiet that you could miss it but which , once you had noticed it , also seemed to fill up the world . |
| 11 | Oppenheimer said that it was ‘ technically so sweet that you could not argue about that . |
| 12 | They were passing thin poplars in a quiet so intense that you could hear the yellow poplar leaves dropping to the ground , on past an old stumpy church and a graveyard , with earthen walls and a beech hedge around it . |
| 13 | Menaggio is a super lakeside resort that feels so untouristy that you could be forgiven for thinking it was just a typical Italian village . |
| 14 | But one has to bear in mind that it is always possible that you could have other materials for riding and so on . |
| 15 | I was always surprised that you could cross Magdalen Bridge without having to show your papers , that you could just walk across . |
| 16 | You could die or go bankrupt and the house would stay basically unchanged , still mouldering slowly and running up a ransom of a heating bill … unless you were so fabulously rich that you could afford not to give a shit , in which case all arguments foundered . |
| 17 | If in a sense it means how early can you teach children facts and contents and very straightforward knowledge , then I think the answer is not very early at all because it may be fairly meaningless that you could teach a child to repeat Newton 's law , perhaps the same way as you could teach him to repeat the eleven times table , but without a good concept of number or what Newton meant . |
| 18 | If in a sense it means how early can you teach children facts and contents and very straightforward knowledge , then I think the answer is not very early at all because it may be fairly meaningless that you could teach a child to repeat Newton 's law , perhaps the same way as you could teach him to repeat the eleven times table , but without a good concept of number or what Newton meant . |
| 19 | Add to all this the price of a well deserved holiday from it all at the end of your final term , and it is quite likely that you could be stretching your finances to the limit . |
| 20 | Quantitative arguments of that kind are always hard to pin down solidly , but I do n't think it 's numerically plausible that you could produce a set of changes of that kind by species selection . |