Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] [pron] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | My hon. Friend the Member for Newcastle upon Tyne , North ( Mr. Henderson ) and the hon. Member for Southwark and Bermondsey ( Mr. Hughes ) were dead right when they said that the Bill is a lost opportunity . |
| 2 | David looked rather odd as she said that , but he left so quickly that she could not ask him anything about it and picked up her book to absorb the time until Annunziata brought in her supper . |
| 3 | The Scottish data are the most recent and most reliable and they show that the lower socio-economic groups are more likely to be both admitted to hospital and to stay longer than the higher socio-economic groups . |
| 4 | ‘ Will you think me extremely uncivil if I say that I do n't believe you ? ’ |
| 5 | There were those whose attachment to the principles of divine right and hereditary succession was so strong that they felt that James and his heirs could be the only legitimate Kings of England , whilst others turned to Jacobitism out of disillusionment with political developments since the Revolution . |
| 6 | His passion , his arousal which the mere sight of her had provoked , was so strong that he wondered that she could not feel it too ; it seemed to hang , a living thing , in the air between them . |
| 7 | Her own memories were so strong that she feared that she would burst into hysterics before him , and that would never do . |
| 8 | Glamorgan is way up on Devil 's Peak , and the sight of misty blue clouds hovering over its rocky peaks , so low that you feel that you could touch them , is so awe-inspiring that one feels all it needs is God 's voice thundering from the sky to make you fall flat on your face and worship . |
| 9 | I think we 've erm we 've erm obviously learned that opting out is not for the Oxfordshire people — I 'm delighted about that and I just hope that as a result of this we do not see too many problems for Banbury School , both in the fact that the exercise has been somewhat divisory and I hope that they 're able to bring it together quickly afterwards . |
| 10 | Their body-beings are so strong , so formed , so resilient that you feel that everything , anything would just bounce off the surfaces of them and away . |
| 11 | The dilemma of those who evoke consciousness as the basis of phenomena was succinctly stated by Ronnie Knox in his limerick on idealism : There once was a man who said " God Must think it exceedingly odd If he finds that this tree Continues to be When there 's no one about in the Quad . " |
| 12 | A priori this latter feature might be thought somewhat undesirable as it implies that the higher the rate of growth of wealth the lower the share of the total portfolio held within the UK . |
| 13 | I understand my hon. Friend 's point , but the section is entirely clear and I think that all local authorities are aware of its provisions , which place the primary duty of enforcing the Shops Act 1950 on them . |
| 14 | Eventually , still some distance from the supermarket perhaps , the person 's level of anxiety may become so high that they imagine that any further increase will have a catastrophic effect on them . |
| 15 | The negro was obviously homosexual and I realized that homosexuals had been buying that stuff for years . |
| 16 | Interesting though it may be to learn that there is a narrative-discourse-paragraph-introductory-particle in Huichol or Shipibo , it becomes decidedly less interesting when one discovers that the identification of the significance of these particles depends on a prior identification of the paragraph as a unit in which ‘ the speaker continues talking about the same thing ’ ( Grimes , 1975 : 103 ) . |
| 17 | They were originally intending to work in Zaire , but the situation is still somewhat unstable and it seems that the time is not quite right for them to go there . |
| 18 | But comparing depression to a cold is misleading in so much as it implies that the condition is not only common , but mild . |
| 19 | It is clear , however , that in this case the contracting company felt extremely nervous when it found that representatives of a safety committee had gone straight from the employer to the ultimate operator in the field . |
| 20 | Relationships of this kind , including most of those between normal adults , give a place to emotions such as resentment , gratitude , forgiveness or disappointment which are only appropriate when we believe that someone 's behaviour towards us was conscious and intentional . |
| 21 | They also knew that the arrested men were respectable and law-abiding and they were highly indignant when they heard that an official spokesman had smeared them with the suggestion of criminal activities . |
| 22 | The Secretary of State was so ignorant that he believed that the Bill applied to Scotland . |
| 23 | And the balance of early modern attitudes to the old looks a good deal less favourable when we realize that the terms of chronological age used then were quite different from those in use today . |
| 24 | Most natural minerals are brittle because they are more or less homogeneous but it happens that a few have cleavage planes of about the right strength . |
| 25 | Erm and that 's , of course , why she 's so delighted when she finds that the Rivers are her relations . |
| 26 | He , the laibon , was not so sad because he believed that she had caused many upsets . |
| 27 | Morrissey 's ‘ Englishness ’ is somewhat ironic when you consider that his parents and his entire extended family only arrived here during the '50s . |
| 28 | The bowl of Rostov 's was so delicate that he felt that if he closed his hand too suddenly it would shatter . |
| 29 | Indeed , he believed his skull to be so exceptional that he willed that after his death it be given to a doctor for examination , but nineteenth century sentiment and regulations prevented this from being carried out . |
| 30 | It was so obvious that he marvelled that none should have seen it before him . |