Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [be] [adv] [adj] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government 's own Department of Development Aid has apparently been so devious that the judge investigating the billions of Rand evidently missing or misappropriated , which should have gone towards assisting the poorer ( black ) communities , has thrown in the towel when faced by the department 's shambolic accounting . |
| 2 | Even when they had first been married , Ross has always been quite determined that — |
| 3 | If the theory that DNA and its copying machinery arose spontaneously is so improbable that it obliges us to assume that life is very rare in the universe , and may even be unique to Earth , our first resort is to try to find a more probable theory . |
| 4 | It had all been so flimsy that Pascoe had hesitated about presenting it to Dalziel . |
| 5 | You see , I 've always been firmly convinced that I was homosexual . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've always been very aware that I needed to give something back after this experience and when I read about the appeal for people prepared to give homes to the Bosnians , I decided it was time I stepped in . ’ |
| 7 | You 've always been so strong that you do n't know what it 's been like for me since mother died . ’ |
| 8 | Maggie had never bothered to resist their reasoning , and she folded her clothes partly from the natural instinct of obedience , and partly because she had never been entirely sure that these external appendages did indeed belong to her , Maggie Petherington , or if perhaps they were loans from the mysterious outer world ; loans that would doubtless be called in some day . |
| 9 | We have always been so thankful that she has such a sense of fun . |
| 10 | ‘ The VAT rules have previously been so complex that they have confused even the VAT man . |