Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] that [pron] [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has reached the point where he thinks he is so right that he has in fact ceased to develop . |
| 2 | I mean that the data on spontaneous abortion is so unmistakable that it seems to me that artificially induced abortions are just a continuation with modern technology of something women have always done anyway discriminate against their ab about their offspring , sometimes discriminating against them . |
| 3 | These units could then be regarded as repeatedly subdivisible to the point that the final dimension is so minute that it stands in the same relation to the highest human capacity for feeling as does the single cell to the supreme achievement of cellular development , which is the physical human being . |
| 4 | He concluded by stating that he had been ‘ compelled to trench on political questions as well as economic — because I feel we are approaching a situation that is so grave that it compares with the War , when we were compelled to act together in self-defence ’ . |
| 5 | Natural movement which is also a pleasure rather than a chore is infinitely superior to indoor exercises with weights , or exercise that is so taxing that one aches from head to toe afterwards . |
| 6 | It is so obvious that it sounds like ‘ common sense ’ . |
| 7 | Dishonesty and partiality are never mentioned in expert clauses as factors whose presence the parties agree would be sufficient to upset a decision : it is so obvious that it goes without saying , and is therefore an implied term . |
| 8 | Ash is produced when the coal is burnt and has proved to be something for the salvation for many plants and animals the ash is so fine that it has to be turned into a slurry and put into the to settle out these can be up to eight years during which time it becomes none the less but an artificial mud flat quickly colonized by weeds , pioneers crucial to the complex way of life in our natural world But for bird-watchers it is the bird that attracted to these artificial mud flats that are the most exciting development within the boundaries of these power station nature reserves . |
| 9 | The pain of the individual 's sense of loss is so great that he withdraws from relating to any object he perceives as having authority as a way of masking the pain . |
| 10 | In the American flickers , close cousins to woodpeckers , the tongue is so long that it extends beyond the eye-socket into the upper beak , entering through the right nostril so that the bird can only breathe through its left . |
| 11 | So powerful that it needs to be used circumspectly to avoid reducing self-confidence . |
| 12 | I was glad to see Ezra , because what biased attitudes he has are so biased that he manages to be , all round , a more generous-minded and discriminating person that others who spread their capacity for bias over their entire mental outlook ’ . |
| 13 | The predators that preyed on the giants were even more spectacular , and by now the name of Tyrannosaurus is so well-known that it seems to be one of the first tongue-twisters mastered by small children . |
| 14 | They meet the Keef Of Richards , a creature so alien that he looks like a superannuate chimp on heroin , who agrees ! |
| 15 | This is a clear example of the third basic kind of doubt , a kind so common that it qualifies as the twentieth-century doubt par excellence . |
| 16 | Violent heat , so intense that it lingers on the hand after touching the patient 's skin . |
| 17 | In addition , the charge may be so all-embracing that it confers on the chargee as a matter of fact the exclusive right to supply the debtor company with credit . |
| 18 | For each Fanatic in turn roll a scatter dice to determine which direction it moves in — the Goblin is now so utterly disorientated that he moves in a random direction . |
| 19 | Sir : I am sorry that John Torode ( 3 October ) found the Salman Rushdie seminar ‘ dispiriting ’ , and even more sorry that he perceives in it the birth of a ‘ dangerously illiberal orthodoxy ’ . |
| 20 | As a strongly international business it is more appropriate that it appears beside the Big Four rather than with the British consultancies . |
| 21 | I 'm deeply sad that he feels like that and I would hope that when it happens , he might feel it 's not quite so bad and that he might change his mind . |
| 22 | Similarly , it is hardly surprising that he speaks in glowing and not always accurate terms of Cnut 's reign itself . |
| 23 | It is also possible that it leads to a change in the Pattern of bequests . |
| 24 | If one is brave enough to try the draft out on critical , expert colleagues , one can be reasonably sure that what emerges at the end will be free of double questions , ambiguities , leading questions , and so on , and the helpful colleagues , in pretending to be informants , will also probably have thought up some difficult-to-classify answers too . |
| 25 | A novel has therefore these two interrelated modes of existence — as a fiction , and as a text ; and , to adapt Lodge 's statement to our own purpose , it is as text-maker that the novelist works in language , and it is as fiction-maker that he works through language . |
| 26 | Thus , as far as the spadefoot is concerned , it is quite possible that what appears at first sight to be a random collection of toads arbitrarily mating with anything and everything is actually an ordered process . |
| 27 | But it is at least interesting that there seems to be this level shift problem embedded within physics itself . |
| 28 | some women do and I 'm not quite clear that it has to be so definite as as er |
| 29 | They are self selecting , and what we 've got to puncture is not the erm idea that the best goes forward , which is what you 're suggesting , erm but the idea of this self-selecting bit , it 's quite true that it tends to be men who put themselves forward for selection and election , and women do n't . |
| 30 | It is therefore vital that what appears to be a non-restrictable act is examined in order to find what really lies behind the employee 's ability to compete/ canvass. 1.2 Business secrets The implied duty to maintain confidence in the employer 's business secrets continues after employment ends . |