Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | His nostrils were cavernous and so finely edged that they seemed made of paper . |
| 2 | He was sitting facing the Assistant Commissioner ( Crime ) , across a desk so neat and orderly and so well polished that you knew no serious work could be done at it . |
| 3 | Chomsky has claimed that the principles underlying the structure of language are so specific and so highly articulated that they must be regarded as being biologically determined ; that is , as constituting part of what we call " human nature " and as being genetically transmitted from parents to children . |
| 4 | Silken and smooth and so deeply loving that the pain was there again … |
| 5 | The poster at the end of the tunnel was so large and so perfectly lit that it seemed to O , looking up at it suddenly , that the tunnel did not end in a wall , in fact did not end at all , but led to the green fields of France . |
| 6 | Speech processing is so complex and so little understood that we want as few assumptions built into the development architecture as possible . |
| 7 | But the prize is so infinitely rewarding and so badly needed that a little hurt surely should be acceptable on the way . |
| 8 | On the other hand , there are some sufferers from addictive disease — Particularly cocaine users — who may for quite some time be highly respectable and law-abiding and thereby wrongly assume that they are not addicted . |
| 9 | Later he became less abusive and rather pathetically said that he kept himself to himself , that the girl was not roaming the streets getting into trouble like the girls who went to school , that company now would be cruel and shameful to an old man who had provided her with a home , protected her and looked after her in every way . |
| 10 | In the Mediterranean coral was so abundant and so easily harvested that it never became valuable , at least in the home territory . |
| 11 | Despite the masterpieces they contain , Italy 's museums are so uninviting and so often closed that they have very few visitors : only the Uffizi is over the one million mark ( 1,048,185 ) , with the Accademia in Venice at a mere 183,474 ( compared with the London National Gallery 's four million visitors ) . |