Example sentences of "were [adv] [adv] [verb] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were rather like saying that French was less logical than Russian . |
| 2 | But I have had patients who were so badly affected that they could not travel in any enclosed vehicle — car , bus or train — had to leave the bathroom door open while they bathed , could not enter a cinema , theatre or even a small local shop . |
| 3 | Next day in a further raid on this airfield another Beaufighter was to be slightly damaged , as was a Maryland , while a Wellington and a Blenheim were so badly hit that they had to be written off . |
| 4 | Widely commended for its environmental stance in Europe , the same standards have not been applied in the company 's operations in Ecuador , where roads were driven into virgin forests , rivers were so badly polluted that they caught fire , fish were dynamited and local people forced off their lands . |
| 5 | Most of them were so badly damaged that they sank or were forced to withdraw as shell splinters cut their steering lines and tracer set fire to fuel tanks , but they gave a good account of themselves because the port was defended by well-sited , quick-firing guns used for anti-aircraft or anti-ship fire . |
| 6 | I then slightly rocked the chair and my fingers were so badly crushed that , a few weeks later , my blackened finger nails fell out . |
| 7 | What made matters worse was that the police were so badly paid that they could be recruited only from poor , country districts and lacked the sophistication , education and even , Mahmoud suspected at times , mother-wit of city people . |
| 8 | The two cardinals were so loudly applauded that it was clear they represented the wishes of the majority . |
| 9 | In the erotic landscape on which her thoughts now opened , the illusory and the actual were so intimately twinned that only the most cautious eye might distinguish between them ; and at each passionate encounter the symbolic and the literal seemed to enfold their embrace more tightly . |
| 10 | Visible expression of his anxiety could be found in his fingernails which were so savagely bitten that his sheets were often stained with blood . |
| 11 | The words were so softly spoken that she wondered at first if she 'd heard correctly . |
| 12 | You would have to be a professional cobbler-up of sit-coms to give much credence to the available scenarios , but just in case , I suppose they are that : a ) the tests were so incompetently performed that even a baboon 's sample would have produced the same reading as was clocked by the three athletes identically ; b ) the three runners were having a joke at the testers ' expense ; c ) the German trio was deliberately testing the vigilance of the drug monitors at a relatively out-of-the-way venue , for reasons of their own ; d ) that the samples were not urine at all but a draught of refreshing Lucozade , tested in error . |
| 13 | In fact , they were so well drilled that when I went to C Division — Essex Street — you 'd wait on the corner of a back street and there 'd be a crowd of fellers there and within no time , before you could get near them , they 'd all have disappeared . |
| 14 | Hedgerows existed in Saxon times and by the time Domesday was commissioned in 1086 the boundaries of parishes were so firmly fixed that William 's Norman officials were able to calculate within close limits , the exact area of thousands of settlements and their capacity to contribute to the royal exchequer ! |
| 15 | Other youngsters helped with hyperactive teenagers who were so severely disturbed that to encourage a patient to smile was a major success story . |
| 16 | These boxes stood above ground and were , therefore , visible and obvious targets , but they were so solidly made that only a direct hit by a heavy shell could destroy them . |
| 17 | Barson 's powers of tackling and leadership were so highly regarded that United had paid £5,000 — a huge fee at the time , especially for a defender — for his transfer from Aston Villa in 1922 . |
| 18 | The high frequency vibrations were so highly favoured that an infinite amount of energy would be present in them . |
| 19 | Poets were so highly esteemed that it was said that a Delhi-wallah visiting a friend in another part of India would always take with him as a present not jewels or hookahs or fine weapons but a few of Mir Taqi Mir 's new verses copied on to a single sheet of paper . |
| 20 | And others were so deeply affected that they withdrew from the community , shutting themselves away in their homes . |
| 21 | He told me that , at that time , his anxieties were so deeply felt that he sought the advice of his doctor . |
| 22 | By the mid-1970s collectivist policies and the constraints on government they represented were so deeply entrenched that a virtual counter-revolution was required . |
| 23 | About 50 per cent of the animals were so sev-erely maimed that they had to be put down . |
| 24 | Physiologists were then increasingly agreeing that every cellular organism is either a single cell or a cell colony arising from the successive divisions of a single cell , and that two cells come together to form one at fertilization , each having arisen by the division of one cell in the respective parent body . |