Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] be [adv] [adj] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | They found this to be so worthwhile that , on their return from exile , synagogue worship continued and became a major influence in religious life . |
| 2 | We do n't want to leap into this without being totally sure that every point is acceptable , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Mann considered these objective to be so important that in January 1897 he gave up the secretaryship of the Independent Labour Party which he had held since 1894 to devote himself to the continental agitation , especially in Rotterdam , Antwerp and Hamburg , which had been started in the previous year . |
| 4 | These trends were supposed to be so powerful that many groups were driven to extinction as once-useful organs became overdeveloped to the extent that they interfered with the animals ' ability to cope with the environment . |
| 5 | This is used because Saint Francis was supposed to be so gentle that he could actually speak to the birds . |
| 6 | Line and Sandison conclude , ‘ Variations between individual titles , of serials as well as monographs , are likely to be so great that substantial data must be collected for each individual title , perhaps in each library ( certainly in each type of library ) if weeding is to be done on a rational basis ’ . |
| 7 | A distorted lack-of-pulse is unlikely to be so pulse-like that it confuses the equipment . |
| 8 | The average rejection rate per journal could be used as a weighting factor in assessing the impact of a particular thesis , or indeed paper , but it would be difficult to be totally certain that the comparison criteria had objective validity . |
| 9 | The average rejection rate per journal could be used as a weighting factor in assessing the impact of a particular thesis , or indeed paper , but it would be difficult to be totally certain that the comparison criteria had objective validity . |
| 10 | While the objections to rates are well known , it is difficult to be very confident that a switch to a poll tax will adequately redress these problems . |
| 11 | Nick said , ‘ It must be nice to be so young that when you 're tired it only makes you look prettier . ’ |
| 12 | Gradually his attitude changes , partly for the almost absurdly simple reason that the weather changes from uncomfortable cold to pleasant warmth and partly because he is too intelligent to be totally unaware that he is learning , whether he wants to or not . |