Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [adj] that [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , some have argued that the ‘ traditionalism of his general philosophy is so strong that it virtually disables him from that critical rationalism which is essential for the appraisal of particular traditions ’ . |
| 2 | We soon reach Hungerford and Rob 's bridge which is so low that he usually gets cramp from bending flat on the boat . |
| 3 | Male behaviour is so normative that we ordinarily think of celibacy as meaning that men are to leave women alone , rather than seeing it as a positive step women take to make a non sexually-active community together . |
| 4 | Ellis 's sense of the quiet solidarity between women , and of the bonds of love that bind the generations together , is so sure that it more than compensates for the novel 's occasional listlessness . |
| 5 | The pattern is so simple that it hardly seems worth studying . |
| 6 | This is so small that we just do n't notice it ; we see only one time and three space dimensions , in which space-time is fairly flat . |
| 7 | As the Royals have learned to their cost the law is so lax that it actually encourages widespread snooping . |
| 8 | Also , the intonation screws are too long ; on the bottom E , the screw is so long that it literally digs into the string . |
| 9 | It is so good that we now use it for all our drawing and image manipulation for the artwork you see in this section of the magazine . |
| 10 | The recent flood of cheery indicators is so good that it almost certainly condemns the beaming government to setbacks over the coming months , and to talk of a double-dip recession . |
| 11 | Some of ‘ Up In Downsville ’ is so laid-back that it simply wafts around your ears like tobacco smoke and they have an irritating habit of pulling their potential punches for fear of treading on someone 's daisies . |
| 12 | These being the conventions whose occurrence is so regular that we barely notice them , the exceptions to them are the more striking . |
| 13 | One , with its morbid traits of personalised delusion , chaotic thinking , and bizarre affect , is so self-destructive that it frequently reduces the sufferer to psychological incompetence . |
| 14 | It is dusk by the time the wild elephants reach the funnel and now the noise of the beaters behind them is so loud that they simply keep going — into the khedda . |
| 15 | In fact , it is so proud that it now boasts at a European level of the cheap U K labour costs and the lack of workers ' rights . |
| 16 | Might it be also true of Jackson 's work that its formalism is so relentless that it actually reveals itself as questioning the parameters within which it operates ? |
| 17 | Its functioning , including leap years , is so familiar that it sometimes comes as a revelation to researchers into early English local history to learn that there were several calendars in use in the past , each somewhat different from the other , with quite distinct ways of referring to months and days , and with days whose hours varied in length according to the season of the year . |
| 18 | Life there is so inexpensive that it just takes longer to get it all done . |
| 19 | The feasting , fun and laughter continue well into the evening , by which time just about everyone is so full that they often prefer something lighter to eat ! |
| 20 | Indeed this is so clear that I sometimes wonder why so much effort usually goes into attempting to prove it . |
| 21 | Dega is so myopic that he never takes his glasses off-there is a nice touch when Dustin holds his hand over his spectacles as he is showered down . |
| 22 | Unfortunately senior executives often either consider that no-one less senior than themselves can be trusted with knowledge of a meeting , or that the meeting is so important that they alone are significant enough to occupy the chair . |
| 23 | The profile is so comfortable that you hardly notice it , and the heel and volute are unmistakably the work of someone who believes that ‘ just good enough ’ is just not good enough — brilliant stuff . |
| 24 | Mr Smith retorted : ‘ It is abundantly clear that you either do n't know how many billions of pounds were lost or you are unwilling to tell us . ’ |
| 25 | and all she can think of to say is ( and here he mimicked a heavy filmstar accent which actually was nothing like the actress in the film at all , because the woman in the film is an ordinary , decent , hardworking woman ) , ‘ Oh dahlink , I 'ave missed you so much , ’ and then the first thing she does after waiting for him to come home for seven fucking years is to leave the fucking gas on while she 's making his coffee , and then of course she 's so tense that she just ca n't wait for a fag , she lights up , there you go ; bang . |
| 26 | So it is not surprising that they also occur in the second part of the novel . |
| 27 | ‘ It is not true that I only play this game for money . |
| 28 | As a successful town , it is not unlikely that it also became a pagus centre for part of the Dobunni and additionally the residence of the regionarius mentioned above ( p. 34 ) . |
| 29 | Not only are the technical and organizational problems huge but it is not clear that we even have the intellectual concepts needed to talk about the issues we face . |
| 30 | It is not clear that she currently has any diplomatic status , though there is some evidence that the United Nations may still for some purposes recognise her ambassadorship . |