Example sentences of "[noun] is [adv] [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this turnover is so extraordinarily slow that each grain could only have been exposed during the last 4600 Ma for a total time much less than a million years thus requiring considerably higher cosmic-ray intensities in the past , which though possible is thought by several scientists to be unlikely . |
| 2 | Certainly general policies , such as those reproduced in part below , could have the effect not only of preventing but abating existing odour nuisance , the county council having recognised that in most cases where odour pollution causes problems , the source of the odour is either close to residential property or industry is so densely concentrated that the total odour emission is unacceptable . |
| 3 | A fear is also sometimes expressed that if women priests are allowed this will open the door to ‘ liberal ’ theology in other areas . |
| 4 | Genette 's discussion of Proust is so far reaching that his book can be regarded as much as a reading of A la recherche as a contribution to narrative theory , and to this extent it represents a challenge to the generic distinctions normally made in structuralist thinking between poetics and criticism . |
| 5 | If your holiday plan is so tightly organised that it allows for no days off , and no travel delays , it 's time to think again . |
| 6 | The English love affair with Tuscany is so well known that in the last century hotel porters in Siena called all foreigners English , even if they were German or Russian . |
| 7 | Polo parks ( one was constructed recently at Châteaux Giscours ) , marble bottling halls ( Michel Delon 's at Léoville-Lascases is so highly polished that workers have been issued with special boots ) , Versailles-style formal gardens with sunken cellars provide the spectacular icing on the cake of wealth accumulated by the leading châteaux over the last decade by the simple expedient of charging much more for their wines than it costs to make them . |
| 8 | And here was the bonus : the positive charge of the proton is so effectively shielded that it will now be able to encroach much closer to the nucleus of a neighbouring atom without being repelled ; the chance of bumping into it and undergoing nuclear fusion , ‘ cold fusion ’ , thereby became a real possibility . |
| 9 | The purpose of these assumptions is almost invariably to ensure that the new rent is a " rack " rent , ie the highest commercially obtainable . |
| 10 | The central character is so consistently developed that the audience take it for granted the house will fall down only a few weeks after he has started [ sic ] to live in it . ’ |
| 11 | The assumption that all groups in the ‘ not-men ’ class are identical with each other is so firmly rooted that , as we shall see in the fourth section , it is readily assumed even by modern libertarian thinkers that showing that , for example , some ground for distinguishing between men and women is false or irrelevant , immediately commits us to the view that the same ground is irrelevant in distinguishing men from children . |
| 12 | In our day the argument is more frequently encountered that ‘ the wreck of human affairs ’ disproves the existence of an all-merciful and all-powerful God . |
| 13 | And MacPhearson wants to argue that Locke is fairly clearly suggesting that there is a property qualification for membership of the people , the people being the sovereign . |
| 14 | The EC Commission is also now arguing that approximation rather than total harmonization may well suffice . |
| 15 | Tabasco is so well known that it is to pepper sauces what Hoover is to vacuum cleaners . |
| 16 | If a theory is so vaguely stated that it is not clear exactly what it is claiming , then , when tested by observation or experiment it can always be interpreted so as to be consistent with the results of those tests . |
| 17 | But many Japanese companies ' strategy is now simply to pray that the yen will fall in this fiscal year . |
| 18 | On the one hand , it may well be felt that an old person 's wish to stay with a carer should be respected unless their mental state is so gravely impaired that they literally do not know what they are doing . |
| 19 | It 's tempting to think that Windows is so carefully organized that you do n't have to understand much about these processes at all . |
| 20 | That Lalande and other French composers of his time , notably Charpentier , were often being deliberately Italian in style is so well documented that surely it is self-evident , especially in faster movements such as ‘ Et rege eos ’ , marked with the unambiguous Italian expression vivace by Lalande in his autograph score ( Cauvin and the 1729 edition employ légèrement and tres légèrement respectively ) , and the final vite sections ( ‘ Non confundar ’ ) , that equal fast notes are called for ? |
| 21 | No student should be penalised for misspellings unless a word is so badly spelt that it can not be understood . |
| 22 | As a result , our eyesight is so well developed that few animals possess comparable vision , and we are justified in considering it our supersense . |
| 23 | Since this subject is so important , it is a pity the book is so badly constructed that it lacks authority . |
| 24 | This distrust of the social scientist is so deeply ingrained that when I was reading anthropology as an undergraduate and I was asked by my colleagues what subject I was reading , I knew that I would have to prevaricate or face problems . |
| 25 | For the moment , Mr Rocard is probably just praying that he can hold on to his seat in the Yvelines . |
| 26 | He stood and watched for a while but everything connected with seamanship is so majestically slow that he began to feel guilty of time wasting while the little vessel was still being manoeuvred through the gap . |
| 27 | Chris is so emotionally paralysed that he has spent two years wooing Ann , who has been working in New York , through the post . |
| 28 | Dr Estelle Ramey , professor emeritus of physiology at Georgetown University School of Medicine , USA , explains that ‘ your system is so delicately balanced that it 's very difficult for your body to make two types of hormones at once . |
| 29 | The reason for this is that the system is so highly structured that there is no question of uncertainty and it would therefore be impossible to impair the efficiency of it . |
| 30 | In the large public company it is now accepted as part of conventional wisdom that the shareholding is so widely dispersed that each shareholder does not own a significant enough proportion of the company to perform any of the functions of monitoring and supervising the directors that the legal model casts upon him . |