Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [adj] that it " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is based on a true story so outrageous that it would never in a million years have passed muster as fiction . |
| 2 | Beyond the rail , reached by a stairway so steep that it was almost a ladder , was the main lower level . |
| 3 | We looked in the area of the fault and indeed , there was one needle that had a latch so stiff that it could n't open freely and also got stuck when you pushed it right back . |
| 4 | This is a clear example of the third basic kind of doubt , a kind so common that it qualifies as the twentieth-century doubt par excellence . |
| 5 | There was even a small river tumbling over the edge in a waterfall so wind-whipped that it reached the ground as rain . |
| 6 | However , there has been considerable controversy over the meaning of the link between events and depression — whether in fact the existence of a psychosocial stressor makes a depressive response so understandable that it should not be considered a disease . |
| 7 | They had dropped in to pick up Bill , who was of necessity going without Faye this year , and the sight of Tom in a black dinner suit and a shirt so white that it was almost ultra-violet had rocked Belinda 's usual state of equilibrium where their friendship was concerned . |
| 8 | In its light was revealed a thin face , with skin so pale that it was almost translucent , whose high cheekbones emphasised the hollows below and under her brows . |
| 9 | It was a sa so big that it was almost a lake . |
| 10 | Thus the lower-frequency stretching mode of HCN , mainly associated with CN stretching , gives rise to IR absorption so weak that it can not effectively be observed by conventional means . |
| 11 | It was a smell so keen that it momentarily brought back the holiday she and Martin had spent in Amalfi , the trudge hand-in-hand up the winding road to the mountain-top , the pile of lemons and oranges by the roadside , putting their noses to those golden , pitted skins , the laughter and the happiness . |
| 12 | He already knew , from collision with it , that the very next zone was of a frigidity so intense that it too would burn like fire . |
| 13 | It wore a personal mushroom cloud which fired sheet-lightning directly down into its crater , with thunder so head-shattering that it was hard to convince the body it had nothing to worry about . |
| 14 | It was a state of existence so perfect that it almost frightened her because nothing Perfect lasted for ever . |
| 15 | It was of course so important that it was recorded by the gospel writers no less than five times . |
| 16 | One jerk , one shudder , one small loss of control and it would spill over into a chaos so terrible that it could only end in death . |
| 17 | She spoke with an accent so soft that it sounded as if an h was attached to each consonant . |
| 18 | The students from that time remembered a man with a sharp sense of the ridiculous ; who ragged them but was too shy to be intimate with them though they liked him much for his friendliness and his humour ; who was famous for long , sudden , and embarrassing silences ; who was so eccentric that none of them believed that he could later be a man of distinction in England or his Church ; a man who loved theology — they never met anywhere else a man who so loved theology , and who regarded theology as the highest intellectual activity for humanity ; a fierce defender of liberty of opinion , for Marxists as for anyone else ; whose principal theme was the glory of God , and who was evidently touched by his ideas of Plato ; who did not give the impression of a mind of exceptional ability — there was not enough knife in the mind — but who gave the impression of being an exceptional person ; who disturbed other people 's prayers in chapel with convulsive fidgets and sudden face-rubbings — they regarded him as tense in his devotions and were afraid of a nervous breakdown ; who had a manifest and rare mystical sense of the immediate presence of God , a presence so brilliant that it could almost overpower . |
| 19 | In the naked fear of falling in a space so huge that she did not know whether she was falling up or down , inward or outward , she met a fear so great that it burned away forever all the other fears . |
| 20 | It was a backwards memory of an event in his future so terrifying that it had generated harmonics of fear all the way along his lifeline ) . |
| 21 | At two-twenty Minto 's party appeared , saying that the reason for their delay was that Liddiat , the handyman employed by Minto at The Kilns , had pumped up the tyres of the car so hard that it was impossible to drive at more than fifteen miles per hour . |
| 22 | ‘ Is her fault so bad that it can not be overlooked ? ’ he asked . |
| 23 | Hrun the Barbarian crept soundlessly along the corridors , which were lit with a light so violet that it was almost black . |
| 24 | It was as if I suffered from an optical illusion so strong that it consumed my other senses . |
| 25 | Corpus Christi College made the suggestion that he should sleep in Corpus but take his meals in his old college of Magdalene ; a proposal so bizarre that it should be accounted for by a motive , not to have at dinner a famously silent person , imagined as a wet blanket . |
| 26 | I hit my pillow so hard that it has looked reproachful ever since . ) |
| 27 | He thought that he 'd found what he wanted in a village so small that it was n't even marked on his petrol-station roadmap . |
| 28 | Mrs Stych , however , nibbled appreciatively at one of the chocolate morsels , while Mrs Johnson , who had no real idea how to trace an author , outlined a plan of campaign so huge that it would have confused an entire army staff , never mind Mrs Stych . |
| 29 | Useless at the moment to try to touch her , to convince her that what he felt for her was love and a pity so enormous that it was almost unmanning him . |
| 30 | The matches are made of a wood so flimsy that it reminds me of the balsa with which I tried , unsuccessfully , to build model aeroplanes . |