Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun] [that] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think we 're entitled to ask if Nottinghamshire faces those problems , what is peculiar about Leicestershire that it did face those problems but all of a sudden it does n't face those problems . |
| 2 | This bridge ( Cowley Bridge ) , built by James Green , the county surveyor , in 1813–14 , is so fine in design that it has already been scheduled and protected as an ancient monument . |
| 3 | George Eliot clearly admires the one at Cheverel Manor , ‘ which was so bare of furniture that it impressed one with its architectural beauty like a cathedral ’ . |
| 4 | The £3m or so net of expenses that it expects from the placing will go to eliminating existing bank loans , which stood at £952,200 on November 13 , with the balance going for working capital . |
| 5 | These are so ponderous and unwieldy and so vulnerable to obstruction that it seems remarkable that major decisions are ever made outside of crisis situations . |
| 6 | The Indecent Displays ( Control ) Act 1981 was sound in principle , but so narrow in application that it has rarely if ever been tested in the courts . |
| 7 | He had gingerly opened the Book , which was chained to the octiron pedestal in the middle of the rune-strewn floor not lest someone steal it , but lest it escape ; for it was the Octavo , so full of magic that it had its own vague sentience . |
| 8 | His name would probably have been ‘ Shiney ’ or ‘ Stainey ’ and he would have had an apron that was so stiff with shellac that it stood up on its own . |
| 9 | The dense grey sky seemed denser than before , so grey in places that it seemed almost green . |
| 10 | So clueless and incompetent , so capable of mismanagement that it has turned it into an art form . ’ |
| 11 | Sun is so flush with cash that it plans to buy in up to 7.5m of its own shares , 7.5% ; the purchases will be funded from available working capital and the shares will be held in treasury or used for ongoing stock issues for its employee share ownership plans . |
| 12 | For the next four years he sat as an engrossing clerk on a stool in the dusty office , so thick with dust that it entered the sunbeams ; and bent over crabbed writing in the books , or showed dull clients in to see his father , or sat the examinations , which he passed . |
| 13 | The paint , so thick in places that it seems to exist independent of the canvas , becomes an integral part of this annual cycle . |
| 14 | Although the man moved quickly the moment was so vivid to Marian that it seemed to her as though time had frozen and become an icicle of stillness . |
| 15 | This is particularly the case as the IMF has been open to criticism that it ignores the social impact of its prescriptions , which create hardship and the potential for popular unrest as its free-market measures begin to bite . |
| 16 | Three year old Francesca Lobban is so sensitive to pain that it makes her heart stop and leaves her unconscious for up to ninety minutes . |