Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] be [adv] great that " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1936 he wrote " Nowadays the trouble and expense involved in keeping a stud of hawks is so great that only a fortunate few are able to do so . " |
| 2 | The loss of nurses is so great that the profession replaces itself numerically once every six years . |
| 3 | In Bohemia under Joseph II opposition to the burial of Protestants in cemeteries hitherto reserved for Catholics was so great that it required the presence of a considerable force of cavalry to ensure that one such burial took place ; while the disastrous flooding of 1785 , when the Danube broke its banks , was widely regarded as a divine punishment for the emperor 's impious attacks on the Church . |
| 4 | Domestic needs for resources are so great that the USSR can not afford to take many losses in Latin America for purely political purposes . |
| 5 | In Manchester the demand for tickets was so great that they changed hands for upwards of eighty pounds . |